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National Law Journal: Selections from Legal Times Afternoon Update March 4, 2010

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source: NLJ.com, March 4, 2010.

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Crowell Dispute with Pan Am Flight 73 Hijack Victims Heats Up

"A multimillion-dollar dispute between Crowell & Moring and a group of victims of the 1986 Pan Am Flight 73 hijacking is intensifying with the victims seeking support from Congress and the State Department and their opponents moving to compel arbitration. "

 

D.C. Appeals Court Revives Wrongful Termination Suit Against Reed Smith

"A former Reed Smith associate in Washington who alleged wrongful termination against the firm won a victory today in the D.C. Court of Appeals, which reversed the dismissal of the suit and remanded the case for trial in Superior Court."

 

Dawn Johnsen

 Nomination Heads Back to Senate

"Repeating arguments that they've been making for a year, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines today to move forward on Dawn Johnsen's nomination for a top position in the U.S. Justice Department."

 

Cassidy Amends Disclosure on Raphel's Meetings for Pakistan

"Cassidy & Associates has amended its lobbying disclosure filings in the wake of a story in The National Law Journal, saying the firm's original filings mischaracterized some of a former lobbyist's meetings in the 10 days before she left to take a job with the State Department"

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D.C. Circuit Kicks Skyland Dispute Back to Local Court

"A long-running set of cases regarding the D.C. Council's use of eminent domain in the seizure of the Skyland Shopping Center in 2004 will remain in the D.C. court system. " 

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on March 05, 2010 (boomark / email).