Tom Price

* Johnson & Johnson pushing back against the baby powder cancer verdicts. I thought J&J was the one that wasn’t supposed to cause tears. [Law.com]

* Nine percent tuition hike in store for this law school. [Inforum]

* While the Comey story has sucked up a lot of attention, civil libertarians are watching West Virginia, where a reporter was arrested for asking a question of the Trump administration. [US News & World Report]

* What was Putin wearing when he gave his thoughts on Comey’s firing? (A) A bear costume; (B) A Russian Air Force Uniform; (C) MAGA Hat; (D) Hockey Gear; (E) Shirtless. [Huffington Post]

* German authorities laugh off Jones Day complaints. [Am Law Daily]

* Fewer meetings makes for a better team. This… apparently isn’t obvious to people yet. [Corporate Counsel]

* Chinese hackers have to pay up for breaches at Cravath and Weil Gotshal. [Big Law Business]

* Judge Kaplan was attacked by a pit bull, but he’s all right now. [Law360]

* Whaddya know. Preet Bharara said to be investigating HHS Secretary Tom Price at the time he was fired. [ProPublica]

* Ninth Circuit Judge Richard Clifton doesn’t mention Donald Trump’s name, but that’s totally who he was talking about. [Huffington Post]

* Will the Jones Day raid tip the balance of geopolitical affairs? [Law and More]

* Speaking of Jones Day, here’s another deep dive into the firm (featuring Paul Barrett of Bloomberg Businessweek and our own David Lat). [Big Law Business]

* A terrible injustice in El Salvador. [Washington Post]

* Who’s really getting screwed by the electoral college? Hint: It’s America. [Salon]

* Trump’s travel ban was doomed from the start. [Huffington Post]

Tom Price knows the intricacies of the healthcare industry and he is deferential to the role of physicians.

Price’s stock trades during the SEC inquiry is being described as “brazen.”

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suspended rules requiring a quorum for a vote, allowing Price and Mnuchin to advance to the full Senate.

An interview with conservative health care expert Lanhee Chen, co-author of the influential American Enterprise Institute proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act.

Price was grilled on his ethics, his thoughts on Medicare innovation and apparent plans to turn Medicaid into a block-grant program.

* Donald Trump is launching a “major investigation” into voter fraud because the rest of us pointed out that his popular vote claims were pure bull hockey. This is fantastic. We’ve known that voter fraud really isn’t a thing for years but now there’ll be proof. [CNN]

* A deeper dive into the Dentons conflict check snafu. [Litigation Daily]

* The original patent troll firm is no more. [Ars Technica]

* Sergey Aleynikov’s conviction reinstated. “The decision is a ‘big victory’ for Vance and helps to enhance his reputation as a ‘no-nonsense’ prosecutor who will aggressively prosecute financial fraud.” Wasting years pursuing a conviction the federal courts threw out just to appease Goldman Sachs donors in their private vendetta… sure that’s the kind of financial fraud everyone’s looking to see aggressively prosecuted. [Bloomberg]

* Deutsche out $110 million. [Law360]

* Hughes Hubbard files trademark application for Trump’s reelection slogan “Keep America Great.” Which he stole from The Purge, if you’re wondering what’s next on his agenda. [The Am Law Daily]

* Oh. And we have our first martial law sighting! [Salon]

This is why you perform a conflict check BEFORE you write your screeds.

question marks As top Republicans see it, a medical malpractice crisis is threatening U.S. healthcare.