By Kristen Rasmussen | National Law Journal | October 18, 2017
Rep. Thomas Marino, R-Pennsylvania, withdrew his name for consideration as President Trump's drug czar, two days after a bombshell from The Washington Post/60 Minutes report about the congressman's role as chief advocate for a 2016 federal law that weakened the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's control over opioid distributors. Here are a few things to know about the man at the center of the investigation.
By Sue Reisinger | Corporate Counsel | October 18, 2017
Alex Azar II, a former Wiley Rein partner who served four years as general counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the leading candidate to head the department, according to several accounts citing sources familiar with the matter.
By Josefa Velasquez | October 18, 2017
Paul Feinman on Wednesday was sworn in as an associate judge on the Court of Appeals, New York state's highest court, making him the first openly gay member and filling the vacancy created by the death of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam last spring.
By Catherine Wilson | Daily Business Review | October 18, 2017
The late UM law professor left a scholarly legacy that focused on corporate finance, business transactions and antitrust issues.
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By Max Mitchell | The Legal Intelligencer | October 18, 2017
Appellate courts in Pennsylvania have distorted case law dealing with sovereign immunity and improperly created an arbitrary distinction for highway guardrails, an attorney argued before the state Supreme Court.
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By Max Mitchell | October 18, 2017
If the state Supreme Court upholds a decision that workers' compensation lawyers can be ordered to pay the employer's attorney fees for unreasonable contest, if the employer prevails on appeal, there will be a chilling effect on smaller cases, a lawyer representing a claimant told the justices.
By Cogan Schneier | National Law Journal | October 17, 2017
Katsas, a judicial nominee for the D.C. Circuit, told senators some of the issues he worked on in the past nine months, including the travel ban and the Mueller investigation.
By Josefa Velasquez | New York Law Journal | October 17, 2017
The state Court of Appeals said in an opinion that the removal of J. Marshall Ayres, a Conklin Town Court justice, is warranted because it was “improper and a violation of the petitioner's ethical duty for him to use his judicial position to interfere in the disposition of his daughter's traffic ticket.”
By Greg Land | Daily Report | October 16, 2017
The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that the state's 159 sheriffs are within their legal rights to maintain a near-statewide ban on allowing private, certified process servers from working in their counties.
By Cogan Schneier | National Law Journal | October 16, 2017
Judge Theodore Chuang repeatedly asked both plaintiffs' and government lawyers for limits on when the government can bar certain immigrants from entering the country and when it would no longer be discrimination in the eyes of the plaintiffs.
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