Businesses across all sectors of the economy should be knowledgeable about how best to respond to a Congressional investigation, and ultimately, if the investigatory Committee is not satisfied with voluntary compliance efforts, the options available to them for objecting to a Congressional subpoena.

The malpractice lawsuit arises from an underlying case in which Dickinson Wright was disqualified for alleged conflicts of interest.

The federal government showed that the D.C. Code likely gives the president—as the D.C. Guard's commander-in-chief—the power to mobilize the troops within the District of Columbia, stated the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

"There is no real way at this point for defendants to cure the failure, because the damage in unnecessarily prolonging the case has already occurred," said U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman for the Northern District of Illinois.

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