Mueller on the Hill, Asylum Redux, Braced for Boris: The Morning Minute
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July 24, 2019 at 06:00 AM
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WHAT WE'RE WATCHING
MUELLER MUSINGS – Robert Mueller's testimony today on Capitol Hill is sure to capture the nation. The former special counsel has said very little publicly about his two-year assignment investigating President Trump and how Russia worked to benefit his 2016 presidential campaign. Mike Scarcella reports on some of the questions and expectations prominent lawyers have shared about today's hearings in front of the House judiciary and intelligence committees.
FAREWELL – Mark Nance, CLO of the troubled drug company Insys Therapeutics, plans to resign from the company July 31, apparently giving up a $613,000 retention bonus. Sue Reisinger reports that Nance joined the company in October as a member of its senior management team. At the time the Phoenix-based pharma company was facing criminal and False Claims Act allegations that it bribed doctors to prescribe one of its popular opioid drugs. The company reached a $225 million global settlement with the DOJ last month.
REPEAT PERFORMANCE – Lawyers for the Trump Administration will be back in court today in San Francisco before a familiar judge trying to make the case for the latest changes to rules regarding asylum. A group of nonprofit immigrant advocacy organizations are seeking to block new rules barring asylum for anyone who failed to apply for similar protection in a country they traveled through to get to the United States. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, who last year blocked changes the administration made limiting asylum to only those entering the country through an official port of entry, will be considering the case. Today's hearing marks the second legal test on the issue. Judge Timothy Kelly in Washington heard oral arguments in a similar challenge Monday.
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EDITOR'S PICKS
|Equifax Settlement Unveils 'First of Its Kind' Class Notification System
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WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
|BORIS REVIEWS – How is Boris Johnson's job as Britain's prime minister being viewed by the legal sector? Law.com U.K. affiliate Legal Week has garnered reactions from lawyers around the U.K. Opinions vary from optimistic to downright flummoxed.
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