The First Amendment bars the enforcement of a new federal regulation requiring tobacco companies to include graphic warnings on cigarette packages, a U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia has ruled in granting a summary judgment. In 2011, the Food and Drug Administration issued a new tobacco labeling rule. (See "FDA unveils new, graphic cigarette warnings," Lawyers USA, June 24, 2011.)
Earlier this week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down a major portion of the regulations imposed by the U.S. Department of Education to ensure that career training programs at for-profit colleges meet performance standards. The "gainful employment" measuring rules were designed to improve transparency and determine the success of career school graduates. The purpose was to make sure that federal student aid money was well spent.
An employment discrimination plaintiff did not waive his psychotherapist-patient privilege merely by seeking damages for emotional distress, a U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia has ruled. The plaintiff worked for the federal government. He sued for national origin discrimination under Title VII as well as discrimination in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
The individual mandate in the new federal health care reform law is constitutional, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled in granting a dismissal. President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law in 2010. Section 1501 of the Act, known as the Minimum Essential Coverage Provision, imposes a tax penalty on those who fail to purchase a minimum level of health insurance beginning in 2014.
An e-mail service subscriber was not entitled to notice that his account was subject to a search warrant issued pursuant to federal electronic communications privacy law, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled in reversing a magistrate's order. The government obtained a warrant for the disclosure of certain contents of an e-mail account maintained by Google. The search warrant was authorized under [section]2703(b)(1)(A) of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Scenic America filed a lawsuit this week in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to overturn a controversial Federal Highway Administration ruling. The ruling reversed the agency's long-held position that barred intermittently changing commercial digital billboards. The lawsuit alleges that FHWA has wrongfully allowed commercial digital billboards to proliferate along federal highways nationwide.
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