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Blocking Staples-Office Depot Deal, Judge Wasn't Bullish on Amazon

In her defense of Staples Inc.'s proposed $6.3 billion acqusition of Office Depot Inc., Diane Sullivan described Amazon.com Inc. as a rising behemoth poised to revolutionize the market for office supply sales to large corporate customers. But U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan didn't buy the trial attorney's bullish view, according to the opinion released Tuesday that lays out his reasons for blocking the deal.
12 minute read

The Recorder

Key Patent Judge to Leave Northern California Bench

Ronald Whyte, a senior judge in San Jose, plans to retire in November after 24 years on the federal bench.
23 minute read

National Law Journal

'Obamacare-Made-Me-Do-It' Defense to Hospital Mergers Gains Foothold

Plenty of hospitals have tried the argument, and judges have largely dismissed it. Until now.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Student Overcomes Bleak Background, Earns Law Degree

Graduating law student Cha'Mira Keener's interest and passion for juvenile law comes from the personal understanding of what it means to a child when no one stands up for you.
9 minute read

National Law Journal

'Antonin Scalia Law School' Name Change is Official Now

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia on Tuesday unanimously approved George Mason University's plan to rename its law school after the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

John Paul Stevens Calls Senate Inaction on Garland 'Unfortunate'

An eight-justice U.S. Supreme Court is an "unhappy situation," retired Justice John Paul Stevens said on Tuesday in urging the Senate to act on the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Berks County MDJ Suspended Amid Felony Theft Charges

A Berks County magisterial district judge has been suspended without pay after being criminally charged last week with allegedly stealing more than $113,000 from a local volunteer fire ­company and the court where he presided.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Special Recording of Scalia Play 'The Originalist' to Air on Public Radio

A 2015 political drama based on the late Justice Antonin Scalia is moving from the theater stage to the sound stage. The Originalist by John Strand will be recorded by the original cast, aired on public radio stations and distributed free to public high schools throughout the country.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

D.C. Circuit Tackles the Role of SEC Law Judges

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's in-house law judges are unconstitutionally hired for their jobs, a lawyer for an investment adviser barred for life by the agency told a federal appeals court in Washington on Friday.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

D.C. Circuit, Acting on Its Own, Takes 'Clean Power Plan' to Full Court

Less than a month before a three-judge appeals panel in Washington was scheduled to consider a challenge to the Obama administration's clean-energy plan, the court announced on Monday that the full bench would hear the case instead in September.
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