One opportunity: Williams & Connolly’s David Kendall, a lawyer for Hillary Clinton, told a House panel Monday it will have one chance to question Clinton over Benghazi and her use of personal email during her service as secretary of state, Politico reports. The Hill has coverage here, Reuters here and The Washington Post here.
Skeptical: A three-judge panel was cool to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s challenge to President Barack Obama’s execution action on immigration, the NLJ’s Mike Sacks reports. “We have to decide whether there is standing here,” said Judge Janice Rogers Brown, who, sitting with judges Sri Srinivasan and Nina Pillard, repeatedly sought to put the brakes on what she called attorney Larry Klayman’s “impassioned speech” against the Obama administration. More here in Huffington Post and here in The Wall Street Journal.
Leak: “The U.S. Department of Justice has joined an investigation into a leak of confidential Federal Reserve information in 2012, escalating a probe that has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress in both parties,” Bloomberg reports. The New York Times has more here.
Ferguson’s $1,335-hourly attorney: Ferguson, Missouri, is paying Winston & Strawn chairman Daniel Webb $1,335 an hour to negotiate with the U.S. Department of Justice over police reforms, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The NLJ recently named Winston & Strawn the 2014 Chicago Litigation Department of the Year.
Tossed: A proposed class action against eBay over a data breach was thrown out Monday in New Orleans federal district court, NLJ affiliate The Recorder reports.
Indicted: “In the latest federal indictment targeting what authorities say is a pay-to-play culture in Albany, New York state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam Skelos, were arrested Monday on federal public corruption charges alleging bribes and extortion,” The New York Law Journal reports. The NYT covers the indictment here.
