Federal Judiciary

Solicitor General Confirmation Hearing: Kagan Regrets Religious Funding Memo
Harvard Law Dean Elana Kagan is President Obama's nominee to be the nation's Solicitor General, and Thomas Perrelli the nominee to be Asst. Attorney General. In Senate confirmation hearings today, according to a live blog account at SCOTUSBlog, Kagan was...

Live Stream: Kagan Confirmation Hearings
Live coverage of the Kagan confirmation hearings (beginning at 12:30 p.m.), featuring Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal's chief Washington correspondent. For additional NLJ coverage of the hearings, watch for postings below.

Kagan Confirmation Hearings to Begin June 28
Politics Daily: Elena Kagan Confirmation Hearings to Begin June 28, by Patricia Murphy: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced Wednesday that the Senate Judiciary Committee begin confirmation hearings for Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court on June 28, with the...

Kagans New View of Confirmation Hearings Take Two
(Jonathan H. Adler) As an academic, Elena Kagan thought recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings were a ?hollow charade.?  In a prior post, I noted reasons to suspect Elena Kagan might not adhere to this view once it?s her turn before the Senate Judiciary Committee...

As Kagan confirmation hearings are set begin, do sentencing fans have any new SCOTUS insights
Elena Kagan is the first SCOTUS nominee in a long time without any judicial record and without any history of engagement in criminal justice matters. In light of that reality, the run-up to her confirmation hearings have been largely devoid...

"What Kagan Should Say: Elena Kagan should use her confirmation hearings to defend the Constitution. All of it."
"What Kagan Should Say: Elena Kagan should use her confirmation hearings to defend the Constitution. All of it." Doug Kendall and Jim Ryan have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

Whole Foods
And Other Firms Sued by California Attorney General,

State Farm
Settles with Mississippi Attorney General

Ticketmaster Entertainment
Settles with New Jersey Attorney General

General Motors Corp.
alleging Saturn Vue and Ion have defective transmissions.

Inflated Drug Prices
Dey LP pays $198,000 settlement to Montana Attorney General.

General Electric Co. and SABIC Innovative Plastics
$3 million settlement reached in intellectual property dispute.