A federal judge has found that the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles’ rejection of “Choose Life” license plates may have run afoul of the First Amendment by engaging in viewpoint discrimination. Officials rejected the plate on grounds it would be perceived as governmental support for one side in the abortion controversy.

A federal judge has refused to order the State Department to turn over documents sought by an attorney who was fired from his GC job at a Moscow-based organization after he accused it of frittering away millions of dollars in aid from U.S. government agencies. The federal government argued that the suit should be dismissed on sovereign immunity grounds.

Summer employment in New York City’s legal sector has fallen to lows last seen in 1991, according to data released last week by the New York State Department of Labor. The labor data confirms earlier reports that law firms had dramatically scaled back their summer associate programs.