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President Donald Trump's pick to oversee a consumer watchdog is due to face a grilling from Democrats in the U.S. Senate today as the White House presses ahead with aggressive efforts to dismantle the agency, our colleagues Douglas Gillison and Pete Schroeder report. Jonathan McKernan, nominated to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, will testify before the Senate Banking Committee on his selection. He will face off against Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the panel who also helped establish the watchdog after its creation in 2010. The hearing will mark the first time Democrats, incensed at the dissembling of an agency they view as a critical safeguard for consumers using financial products, will be able to directly press a Republican official on the future of the agency. Under the acting leadership of Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, the CFPB has been effectively shuttered. |
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- New York City Mayor Eric Adams asked a U.S. judge to permanently dismiss corruption charges against him, opening a schism with President Donald Trump's DOJ.
- The SEC told unionized employees they will have to return to the office in mid-April, unless they have certain exemptions, according to a memo seen by Reuters. The move follows similar efforts at the agency with its non-union staff as well as across the federal workforce.
- A U.S. judge briefly extended an order reinstating Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, who had challenged his firing by President Donald Trump.
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"It's clear that the exam did not go smoothly for an unacceptable number of test takers."
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—California bar executive director Leah Wilson. In an unprecedented move, the state bar is offering a retake of its February bar exam after examinees experienced "significant" technical issues or were unable to launch the test on the first day of the state's newly developed licensing exam. Test takers for weeks have warned of logistical and technical problems with the exam's administration. |
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- The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on the nomination of Gail Slater to lead the DOJ's antitrust division. Slater would oversee the government's blockbuster antitrust litigation against Apple, Google and other major companies.
- Meta Platforms will ask a federal judge in San Francisco to dismiss claims brought by a group of authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates and comedian Sarah Silverman that the tech giant unlawfully removed copyright management information from their works and violated a computer fraud law when it used their books for its AI training.
- Jury selection is scheduled to begin in an antitrust class action in San Francisco federal court accusing California health system Sutter of engaging in anticompetitive behavior that artificially drove up insurance premiums by hundreds of millions of dollars. The 9th Circuit last year revived the case, after a jury ruled for Sutter.
- In San Jose, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila will hold a status hearing in shareholder litigation accusing Meta's Facebook of misleading investors about the misuse of the social media platform's user data. The U.S. Supreme Court last year dismissed Meta's appeal of a ruling that allowed the 2018 class action to proceed.
Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- DLA Piper added Julie Kearney, former chief of the FCC Space Bureau, as a D.C.-based partner and co-chair of its space exploration and innovation practice. (DLA Piper)
- Pryor Cashman brought on partner Katherine Reilly from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where she was chief of the complex frauds and cybercrime unit. (Pryor Cashman)
- Wilson Sonsini hired employment partner Susannah Howard in Palo Alto from O'Melveny. (Wilson Sonsini)
- Mayer Brown hired partner Hiral Mehta from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he was chief of the business and securities fraud section. The firm also brought on litigation and dispute resolution partner Frank Favia in Chicago from Sidley.
- K&L Gates hired D.C.-based partner Thomas Allen for its energy, infrastructure and resources practice. He previously was global lead for international disputes at Kilpatrick Townsend. (K&L Gates)
- Latham brought on copyright and technology partner Sophie Goossens in London from Reed Smith. (Latham)
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When can patients harmed by donor blood establish liability on blood banks? Most states have passed blood shield laws, which have tested whether these causes of action can proceed, write Abbye Alexander, Christopher Tellner and Henry Norwood of Kaufman Dolowich. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
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