Mike Sacks

March 16, 2016 | National Law Journal

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, on Wednesday said he would not rule out a confirmation hearing and a vote on D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination during the Senate's lame-duck session later this year. "I'm open to almost anything," should Republicans lose control of the Senate in the November elections, Hatch told The National Law Journal. Hatch supported Garland's nomination to the D.C. Circuit.

By Mike Sacks

3 minute read

March 15, 2016 | National Law Journal

President Obama says he will pick a Supreme Court candidate who should be a "consensus" pick. Harvard Law School will abandon its shield. And the ABA tightens restrictions on bar-pass rates. This is a roundup of news from ALM and other publications.

By Mike Sacks

2 minute read

March 14, 2016 | National Law Journal

U.S. Supreme Court shortlister Judge Sri Srinivasan may be one of Kansas' favorite sons in Washington, but the state's two U.S. senators, both Republicans, said they would stick with their party's refusal to hold hearings for the Lawrence-raised appellate jurist even if President Barack Obama nominates him to Justice Antonin Scalia's seat.

By Mike Sacks

6 minute read

March 14, 2016 | National Law Journal

Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check secured more than a billion dollars over the past year in recoveries for pension funds, large-scale institutional investors and other plaintiffs in securities fraud, shareholder derivative and consumer litigation.

By Mike Sacks

2 minute read

March 14, 2016 | National Law Journal

Grant & Eisenhofer pulled in over half a billion dollars for its clients in settlements and trial winnings of the past year.

By Mike Sacks

3 minute read

March 10, 2016 | Law.com

The fight over the fate of the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the Feb. 13 death of Justice Antonin Scalia has raged on the Senate floor and in the court of public opinion. But the Judiciary Committee—the gatekeeper of all judicial nominations—had not yet hashed its two sides' differences out in the same room. Until Thursday.

By Mike Sacks

8 minute read

March 09, 2016 | National Law Journal

President Obama has begun to interview top contenders for Justice Scalia's seat on the Supreme Court. The NLJ's Tony Mauro reports on the justices' banter on the bench. And Judge Maryanne Trump Barry's latest financial disclosure report is out. This is a news roundup from ALM and other publications.

By Mike Sacks

2 minute read

March 08, 2016 | National Law Journal

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are teaming up as the dissenters. Marriott's general counsel talks with the NLJ about the Erin Andrews case. Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker begins in Florida. And the Justice Department is challenging a Brooklyn judge's All Writs ruling. This is a roundup from ALM and other publications.

By Mike Sacks

3 minute read

March 04, 2016 | National Law Journal

Former U.S. Senator Larry Craig, R-Idaho, must pay the federal government nearly a quarter of a million dollars for spending campaign contributions on legal bills tied to his arrest in 2007 amid a sex sting at an airport, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled on Friday.

By Mike Sacks

3 minute read

March 02, 2016 | Supreme Court Brief

The oral argument in the latest abortion case before the U.S. Supreme Court got so intense and fact-specific that it lasted nearly 20 minutes longer than the one hour allotted to it.

By Tony Mauro and Mike Sacks

5 minute read