By Erin Mulvaney | July 20, 2017
Burlington Stores Inc. general counsel Janet Dhillon will leave behind her in-house role and a $1.5 million salary, if she's confirmed for an open seat on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Her financial disclosure and ethics agreement were posted Thursday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.
By Katelyn Polantz | July 19, 2017
On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee received answers from Christopher Wray to questions that directly addressed Wray's perception of his firm King & Spalding and the legal enforcement he may do if confirmed as FBI director.
By Marcia Coyle | July 19, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, rejecting a Trump administration challenge, said grandparents, aunts, uncles and other family members with close U.S. relatives can travel here from six predominantly Muslim nations. But the court continued to bar refugees with sponsorship agreements with U.S. resettlement agencies.
By Marcia Coyle | July 18, 2017
In the latest clash in the U.S. Supreme Court over the Trump administration's travel ban, Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal, a former acting U.S. solicitor general, took a dig at Jeffrey Wall, the current holder of that post, over the office's "traditional position" when it comes to taking cases to the justices.
By Tony Mauro | July 18, 2017
Five protesters who disrupted a U.S. Supreme Court session with shouts and songs in 2015 should be sentenced to prison time and barred from the grounds of the court for a year, government lawyers said in court filings Monday.
By Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle | July 17, 2017
Elena Kagan was far along in the new Obama administration's vetting process for an important U.S. Justice Department job when she got a call from the White House. That job she was in line to get? Well, the White House wanted her to do something else. Kagan was asked to be the U.S. solicitor general instead and was nominated for the position on Jan. 5, 2009. The rest is history.
By Jenna Greene | July 17, 2017
Hogan Lovells partner Ty Cobb did his firm a big favor. He's resigning.
By Michael Booth | July 14, 2017
New Jersey lawmakers have introduced bills that would prohibit the state from providing the Trump administration's "Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity" with any information about the state's voters that is not already publicly available.
By Marcia Coyle | July 14, 2017
Federal prosecutors have taken it on the chin in recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that pushed back against the government's expansive reading of federal criminal laws. The latest setback came Thursday, when a federal appeals court voided the corruption conviction of a once-powerful New York state Assembly speaker. Here's a snapshot of the McDonnell decision and other rulings, four of which were issued by the Roberts Court, that restricted prosecution offices.
By Cogan Schneier | July 13, 2017
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released a portion of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' security clearance documents in response to a public-records lawsuit, but at a subsequent court hearing, attorneys were still quibbling over the disclosure.
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