Kathleen Kane
* From prosecutor to prisoner: former Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane gets sentenced to 10 to 23 months. [CNN]
* Oh, the irony: the ABA won’t publish a report calling Donald Trump a “libel bully” because of “the risk of the ABA being sued by Mr. Trump.” [New York Times]
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* How the AT&T/Time Warner deal came together — during meetings at Arnold & Porter and over lunches at Cravath. [New York Times]
* A New York judge — former Simpson Thacher partner Barry Ostrager, actually — dismisses a malpractice case against Skadden seeking $35 million in damages. [New York Law Journal
* New York-based F.B.I. agents and assistant U.S. attorneys have been pulled off the Eric Garner case, possibly signaling that Main Justice wants the case to move forward. [New York Times]
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* Judge Paul Diamond (E.D. Pa.) benchslaps the FTC for threatening “to pick up its marbles and play in venues more to its liking.” [ABA Journal]
* Judge Richard Posner isn’t the only one who has issues with the Supreme Court; longtime SCOTUS reporter Dahlia Lithwick has similar problems with the Court’s mystification. [Greenboro News & Record via How Appealing]
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