Federal Government

Widow of Lawyer Whose Body Was Found in Landfill Waits for Answers to Unsolved Crime

In 1995, a sister of Katherine Klyce was murdered in her home by a drug dealer. It took a decade to find the slayer and still that didn’t bring closure to the crime as far as Klyce was concerned. So she knows from experience that her husband’s death late last…

Feb 18, 2011 5:52 PM CST

Feds Raid Health Care Facilities, Arrest Over 100 Professionals in 9 Cities in Record Medicare Bust

Federal authorities have arrested 111 doctors, nurses and other professionals in nine cities in what is being billed as the biggest Medicare fraud bust ever. It allegedly involved fraudulent billing of the government for health care services that weren’t provided, according to ABC News and the Associated Press. The raids…

Feb 17, 2011 6:49 PM CST

EEOC to Mull Exclusion of Unemployed from Job Applicant Pool at Upcoming Meeting

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is apparently troubled by some employers’ practice of excluding those who are unemployed from consideration for job openings. It has put the topic on the agenda for a meeting on Wednesday, at 9:30 a.m., at its Washington, D.C., headuarters. Those invited to make presentations at…

Feb 14, 2011 8:43 PM CST

Last Week You Saw Larry Tribe’s Name on US Supreme Court Brief, This Week You Don’t

Last week, a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in an environmental case listed Laurence Tribe as counsel of record. This week, a substitute brief filed in the same case omitted the renowned Harvard Law School professor’s name but is substantively the same. The unusual change was made at…

Feb 12, 2011 1:19 AM CST

Help Wanted: US Judicial Vacancies Increasing; 2011 Retirements Average One Per Week

Six federal judges have announced their retirements in the last six weeks, contributing to a growing number of judicial vacancies that are taxing some courts and delaying some trials. Judicial vacancies have steadily increased since President Obama took office, the Washington Post reports. “Experts blame Republican delaying tactics, slow White…

Feb 8, 2011 1:04 PM CST

SEC Officials During Time of Madoff Swindle Now Have Lucrative BigLaw Jobs

Half a dozen officials who worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission at a time when Bernard Madoff’s multi-billion-dollar swindle of investors was ongoing have moved on to new jobs. Instead of earning approximately $200,000 a year working for the federal watchdog agency they’re now making up to $2 million…

Feb 7, 2011 5:27 PM CST

Report Shows Fort Hood Massacre Could Have Been Prevented By FBI and Army, Senator Says

A November 2009 massacre at the U.S. Army’s Fort Hood military base in Texas “could have and should have been prevented” by the Army and the FBI, said Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) at a news conference today about a Senate committee’s new investigatory report on the tragedy. According the report…

Feb 3, 2011 9:25 PM CST

Six Justices Show Up for State of the Union, as Obama ‘Gently’ Hits Lawyers

A bipartisan group of six U.S. Supreme Court justices showed up for President Obama’s State of the Union address last night. All the Democratic appointees showed up, along with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the Los Angeles Times reports. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.…

Jan 26, 2011 12:31 PM CST

US Panel Blames Corporate Greed, Fed and SEC, Among Others, For 2008 Financial Meltdown

Corporate greed, excessive risk-taking on Wall Street and a failure by key government regulators to do their jobs were among major factors that led to the financial meltdown of 2008, a congressional panel has found. In a report expected to be released Thursday as a 576-page book, the Financial Crisis…

Jan 25, 2011 11:29 PM CST

Researcher Can’t Be Prosecuted for Altering Abe Lincoln Pardon, National Archives Says

Updated: A researcher who gained attention in 1998 by claiming to have found the perhaps last document executed by President Abraham Lincoln prior to his assassination in 1865 has now admitted that he altered the date on the presidential pardon, says the National Archives in a written statement on its…

Jan 25, 2011 9:40 PM CST

Justice Alito Will Miss State of the Union Because of a ‘Perfectly Timed’ Engagement

The justice who mouthed an objection during President Obama’s State of the Union speech last year won’t be able to make it to this year’s event. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. “is taking advantage of a perfectly timed speaking engagement in Hawaii” to miss tonight’s speech, the Washington Post reports.…

Jan 25, 2011 1:23 PM CST

Fellow Jury Pool Member Fails to Spot Joe Biden Despite Presence of Secret Service Agents

You might think the Secret Service agents would have been a giveaway, let alone the phalanx of staff and extra security that poured in through a side door at the New Castle County Courthouse during a break. But at least one member of a Delaware jury pool failed to spot…

Jan 24, 2011 10:17 PM CST

Divided Appeals Court Nixes Ex-Obama Aide’s Bid to Run for Chicago Mayor; He’s Not a City Resident

Updated: After two lower-level wins, a former top aide to President Barack Obama was booted from the ballot for the upcoming Chicago mayor’s race, as a divided Illinois appellate court panel today held that Rahm Emanuel did not meet a required one-year residency requirement. This is not expected to be…

Jan 24, 2011 6:41 PM CST

Cadwalader Poaches 6 McDermott Partners; Dozens of Associates Could Follow, WaPo Says

Updated: Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has admittedly poached six partners from McDermott Will & Emery, and as many as nine partners are expected to make the move, potentially bringing along dozens of law firm associates, too, according to the Washington Post. A subsequent Financial Times article reports that Cadwalader has…

Jan 20, 2011 9:36 PM CST

Sargent Shriver, Founder of Peace Corps, Other War on Poverty Programs, Is Dead at 95

Sargent Shriver, a member of the Kennedy family renowned for his public service and his work as founding director of the Peace Corps, among many other accomplishments in government and in life, has died. He was 95 years old. A 1941 graduate of Yale Law School, he enlisted in the…

Jan 18, 2011 11:16 PM CST