January 9 - 2011 Legislative Summary: Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations |
January 9 - 2011 Legislative Summary: Patent Law Overhaul |
January 9 - 2011 Legislative Summary: Patriot Act Extensions |
January 9 - Key House Vote of 2011: 'Patriot Act' Extension |
January 9 - Key House Vote of 2011: Patent Law Overhaul |
January 9 - Key House Vote of 2011: Treatment of Suspected Terrorists |
January 9 - Key Senate Vote of 2011: 'Patriot Act' Extension |
January 9 - Key Senate Vote of 2011: Halligan Judicial Nomination |
January 9 - Key Senate Vote of 2011: Patent Law Overhaul |
January 9 - Watchdog: Lewis |
January 23 - Law: Kushner |
January 23 - Politics: Sevillia |
January 23 - Quiet Wins for NRA in Omnibus |
January 23 - SOPA in Cross Hairs |
January 30 - In Honoring Giffords, Congress Clears Bill to Stiffen Penalties for Smuggling Drugs Using Ultralight Aircraft |
January 30 - Lawmakers Try Again to Restrict Eminent Domain Authority |
January 30 - Major Senate Cybersecurity Bills |
January 30 - Whose Study Is It Anyway? |
February 6 - Republicans Break With Democrats Over Visa and Sexual-Identity Language in Domestic-Violence Bill |
February 13 - Contraception and Constitutionality |
February 13 - Judiciary Panel OKs Bill Urging High Court TV |
February 13 - Law: Shur |
February 13 - States Rev Up For Real ID |
February 13 - The Buzz About Pesticides |
February 13 - Voters Turn Videographers |
February 20 - Committee Approves Measure to Bar Abortions Sought Because of Unborn Child's Race or Sex |
February 20 - Five Questions for Dan Gross, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence |
February 27 - A Temporary Section, a Lasting Controversy |
February 27 - The Election's Second Front |
March 5 - House-Passed Bill Would Limit Eminent Domain |
March 12 - House Bill Seeks Reparations for Holocaust Victims |
March 12 - Law Firms: Ledbetter |
March 12 - Stifling Smugglers With Ships |
March 19 - A New Chapter In Stevens Saga |
March 19 - Does EPA 'Sue and Settle' Muddy the Waters? |
March 19 - Health Care's Days in Court |
March 19 - If the Individual Mandate Goes, What's Left? |
March 19 - Military Attempts to Sniff Out Spice |
March 19 - Scholars' Best Guesses on How the Justices Will Vote |
March 19 - The Issues Before the Justices |
March 25 - The Scope of Congress' Commerce Power |
March 26 - A Supreme Test of Federal Power |
April 2 - Branches Clash Over Water Act's Wording |
April 2 - FCC Authority on Mergers Curbed Under GOP Bill |
April 2 - How the West Was Won, Again |
April 2 - Privacy: A Foreign Concept? |
April 2 - Too Much Assembly Required for Health Care Law |
April 16 - Prison Notes: Bylines From the Inside |
April 16 - Two-Pronged Immigration Policy Alienates Both Sides |
April 23 - A Paradise Regained in Georgia? |
April 23 - Intellectual Property: Benton |
April 23 - Keeping a High Court Profile |
April 23 - Keeping the Lead in Ammo |
April 23 - Law: Wainstein |
April 23 - Senate GOP to File Brief in Recess Appointment Suit |
April 23 - Will We See Campaign Ads Air on Public TV? |
April 30 - Bill Would Bar Funds for Gun Reporting, Keep Satellites Under NOAA Purview |
April 30 - Culture Wars Claim Trafficking Law |
April 30 - Fiscal 2013 Appropriations: NASA, NOAA Showdown Possible on C-J-S Bill |
April 30 - Foreign Art: Lending or Looting? |
April 30 - House Panels Propose $6 Billion in Cuts |
April 30 - Senate Passes Domestic Violence Law |
May 7 - Contracting: Nichols |
May 7 - Prosecutions Gone Bad: How Should Congress React? |
May 7 - The Pursuit of the Politician |
May 7 - Two Views on the Kent State Tape |
May 14 - After Passage in House, C-J-S Bill Faces Senate Rejection Over Republican Policy Proposals |
May 14 - Can Lawmakers Sell Liability-Free Gas? |
May 14 - Domestic Violence Legislation Heads to House Floor; GOP Presents Narrower Alternative to Senate Measure |
May 21 - Bill Would Allow Benefits for Gay Federal Workers |
May 21 - Flood Money Drying Up |
May 21 - Getting the Fund to the Victims |
May 21 - House Passes More Limited Version of Violence Against Women Act |
May 21 - House Takes Aim at Cross-Border Drug Smuggling |
May 21 - Policing Export Control Violations |
May 28 - Broad Approval in Senate Committee for Extension of Surveillance Law |
May 28 - From Prison, Long Distance |
June 3 - A Major Caseload |
June 4 - DOMA Ruling Slams Congress |
June 4 - Unlikely Support for Tehran |
June 11 - GOP Unites to Prevent Consideration of Senate Equal Pay Measure |
June 11 - Judging the Timing and Outcome of the Health Care Ruling |
June 11 - Measure Would Protect Utilities Acting on U.S. Orders |
June 11 - Penalties Would Increase for Counterfeiting Drugs, Stealing Medical Products |
June 11 - Who is Liable for BRACish Conditions? |
June 18 - A Settled Law? Not So Fast |
June 18 - Advocacy: Smith |
June 18 - Of Elephants and Mouse Holes |
June 18 - The Chaos of a Narrow Ruling |
June 18 - The Fights After the Fight |
June 18 - The Full Effects of a Full Reversal |
June 18 - Trade: Schildkraut, Grise |
June 25 - Court Demurs on Fair Air |
June 25 - Fighting for Safer Seas |
June 25 - History on Holder's Side |
June 25 - Holder Contempt Resolution Stokes Fire |
June 25 - Wiretap Bill Advances in House Despite Objections About Its Reach |
July 9 - Anti-Bullying and Gang-Prevention Bill Approved |
July 9 - Bill to Prevent Lawsuit Fraud Over ATM Fee Notices Heads to House Floor With Bipartisan Support |
July 9 - Congress' Power Trimmed in Health Care Decision |
July 9 - Court Upholds Health Care Law |
July 9 - Hidden Threats in Health Care Ruling |
July 9 - Historic Vote Holds Attorney General in Contempt |
July 9 - Lacey Act: A Law of Unintended Consequences |
July 9 - Medicaid Expansion: 'Opt Out' Dilemma |
July 9 - Papers? What Papers? |
July 9 - Proposals in Congress to Repeal and Replace |
July 9 - Warrantless Surveillance Bill OK'd in Unanimous Vote |
July 9 - What's in Effect, What's Ahead Under Health Care Overhaul |
July 16 - Bill Would Increase Penalties for Child Pornography |
July 16 - Measures on Identity Theft, Corporate Espionage Receive Approval in House Judiciary Committee |
July 16 - Trial Lawyers: Playing for Both Sides |
July 23 - 527 Groups Are So 2008 |
July 23 - Auto, Tech Industries Join to Reopen Patent Law Fight |
July 23 - House Committee Approves Monitoring, Justice Grants |
July 23 - No Relief for Fort Hood Victims |
July 23 - Senate Panel Backs Shortened Extension of Provisions Permitting Warrantless Surveillance of Foreign Targets |
July 23 - Skirting the Loaded Issue of Gun Control |
July 30 - Evidence in Question |
July 30 - Judges: Roberts Ruling in Order |
July 30 - Law Firms: D'Angelo |
July 30 - With TSA, OK to Bare it and Grin |
August 6 - Child Pornography Bill Would Increase Penalties |
August 6 - House Endorses Tougher Economic-Espionage Penalties |
August 6 - Panel Backs Punishment for Military Medal Fraud |
August 6 - Prisons: Circle of Distrust |
August 6 - Ranchers Have a Beef |
August 27 - Tampa Will Remain Loaded |
September 3 - City Prepares for Protesters |
September 10 - Environmental End Run? |
September 10 - Law Firms: Fried |
September 10 - Voting ID Rulings May Color Debate |
September 17 - Court of (Fewer) Appeals |
September 17 - Court Vacancies Mire Appeals |
September 17 - House-Passed FISA Extension Faces Civil Liberties Concerns in Senate |
September 17 - Senate Bill Would Require System for Wider Screening of Workers in Organizations Serving Children |
September 17 - The Dirt on Stormy Water |
September 24 - 'Fast and Furious' Report Doesn't End Wrangling |
September 24 - Case History: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke |
September 24 - Federal Bench Braces for the Blow |
September 24 - High Court to Revisit Race in Admissions Policy |
September 24 - Law Firms: Schneidman, Caballero |
September 24 - Weeklong CR Deadlock Broken |
October 1 - A Conventional Approach to Amending the Constitution? |
October 1 - Law Firms: Kemp |
October 1 - Retail Protests Swipe Fee Deal |
October 1 - The Price of 18 Words |
October 8 - Supreme Court Makeup Takes Backseat in Election |
October 15 - Agencies Seek to Shine a Light on FOIA Requests |
October 15 - Coalition Takes Aim at Guns |
October 15 - Consumer Affairs: Falvey |
October 15 - Dodd-Frank Fight Shifts to Courts |
October 18 - The Gray Area Around Compounding |
October 22 - FDA Under the Microscope |
October 22 - Licensed to Fly |
October 22 - Why the Veterans' Legislation Stalled in Pro Forma Sessions |
October 29 - Almost a Win for Homeowners |
October 29 - Election Disputes Likely After State Voting Battles |
October 29 - Grappling With an Epidemic of Assault |
October 29 - What Won't Be Done: Commerce-Justice-Science |
November 5 - Copyrights vs. 'Owners Rights' |
November 5 - Law Firms: Brinkmann, Sackler |
November 5 - Thieves Scrap Public Goods |
November 12 - Law Firms: Schmitz |
November 19 - Email Privacy Worries Grow |
November 26 - Advocacy: Gandy |
November 26 - From Green Card to Citizenship |
November 26 - Graham's Birthright Position Risks Trouble |
November 26 - Law: Brown |
December 3 - Off-Clock Crime Still Equals Time |
December 3 - Trouble Brewing for Merger |
December 10 - From the Coast to the Courts |
December 10 - Parsing the Potential Cost to BP |
December 10 - Privacy Issue Delays Drones |
December 10 - Senate Rejects U.N. Treaty to Set Standards on Rights of Disabled |
December 17 - ATM and Privacy Regulations Eased in Separate Bills |
December 17 - Defining Marriage -- and Separation of Powers |
December 17 - Law Firms: Perrelli |
December 31 - FISA Renewal Awaits Obama's Signature |
December 31 - GOP Grounds a Rising Star |
December 31 - Obama's Response to School Shooting |
December 31 - School Massacre Spurs Battle Cries |