— Kristin M. Kraemer (@KristinMKraemer) November 18, 2015

DELIBERATED: Donald Blankenship, the former Massey Energy chief executive officer, is an “outlaw,” a federal prosecutor said in closing arguments in West Virginia, according to WV public radio. Blankenship, represented by Zuckerman Spaeder partner William Taylor III, is on trial for an alleged criminal conspiracy to break federal mining laws. Jury deliberations resume Wednesday. The Associated Press has more here.

ACKNOWLEDGED: “Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Jo White acknowledged the need to ‘modernize’ the agency’s in-house court system, even as she defended the fairness of the proceedings that it has relied on increasingly in recent years as an alternative to federal district court,” the WSJ reports.

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