The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case in which an employment lawyer was denied qualified immunity in a civil rights suit stemming from his assistance in a city’s internal affairs probe. The 9th Circuit held that everyone else — the city and its officers — was entitled to immunity.

A New York City law that greatly restricts campaign contributions from lobbyists and others doing business with the city does not violate the free speech or due process clauses of the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals panel has held in a matter that could be destined for the U.S. Supreme Court.

The San Francisco city attorney’s office has lost the first round in what promises to be a closely watched match over the city’s novel cellphone “right to know” ordinance.

As a federal judge heard arguments Thursday over whether San Francisco’s cellphone ordinance runs afoul of the First Amendment, the city agreed to the judge’s request to postpone implementation of the novel “right to know” ordinance, set to take effect next week, until he issues an order.

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has approved a public censure for former Saul Ewing and Venable partner Sheryl Robinson Wood after she admitted to “intimate contact” with former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick while serving as a court-appointed monitor of the city’s police department.