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D.C. Councilman Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) no longer has to worry that a photo used in a 2008 campaign advertisement will come back to bite him. In a ruling handed down today,...

By Jeff Jeffrey and Julio Menache Gay McDougall, the United Nations’ independent expert on minority issues, was given the D.C. Bar’s highest honor, the Thurgood Marshall ...

In response to a D.C. Court of Appeals decision last year on legal fees paid in advance, the D.C. Bar’s Legal Ethics Committee issued an opinion today outlining how those...

The D.C. Bar’s Litigation Section jumped into the debate over the District’s budget today, issuing a statement opposing Mayor Adrian Fenty’s proposed cuts to the civil le...

Federal judges cannot use a greater likelihood of rehabilitation to justify a longer prison sentence for a criminal defendant, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeal...

The U.S. Justice Department this week won a partial victory against Deloitte LLP when a federal appeals court in Washington ordered additional proceedings in the governme...

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Jonathan Adler pointed to an opinion issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday, in which the court refreshingly fo...

Last Friday, in NRDC v. EPA, the Court of Appeals for the D.C....

UPDATED 4:45 p.m. There will be uncertainty in any accounting of century-old land royalties owed to a class of Indian plaintiffs, but an accounting must still be done, th...

The grandson of a murdered Iranian general won a reprieve today in a Washington appeals court, which found his suit against Iran is entitled to additional hearings. The U...