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.

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.

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.

A federal appeals court has reinstated a reverse-discrimination challenge to a residents-only hiring policy for city employees, finding that a lower court judge conducted a faulty analysis in granting summary judgment to the city of Newark, N.J.

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