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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Embroiled in a nasty battle over a proposal to outsource work now done by municipal employees, the city of Costa Mesa, Calif., has hired Jones Day to represent it in litigation brought by a union representing some of those employees.

Internal reports on more than 1,000 incidents in which New York City Police Department officers fired a weapon at a civilian are about to become public as the city has decided to stop fighting disclosure.