The EPA faced a generally hostile Supreme Court this week in a case involving a landowner’s fight to build a home on an alleged wetland. “If you related the facts of this case to the ordinary homeowner,” that homeowner would say, “‘This doesn’t happen in the United States,’” said Justice Samuel Alito Jr.

The EPA faced a generally hostile Supreme Court this week in a case involving a landowner’s fight to build a home on an alleged wetland.

Former New York Law School Dean Rick Matasar delivered a cautionary speech this week during the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, ruminating about graduates’ poor job prospects and growing debt load, and the possibility that outside regulators will force changes upon law schools.

From the Iowa campaign trail to the Montana Supreme Court, and from New York to California, the wake of Citizens United has rippled across the U.S. this week in a range of political, judicial and media encounters — a sudden reckoning with a ruling that changed the parameters for corporate involvement in American political life.

It was another record-breaking year for the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, with the SEC and Justice Department “pushing the edges as far as what’s permitted and not permitted under the statute,” according to the co-author of a report released this week. The DOJ has also made clear its willingness to go after individual defendants long after a case has been settled against the parent company.