ZHP sought to invoke the Apex Doctrine, which seeks to limit depositions of individuals at the “apex” of a corporation based on the premise that lower-level employees are likely to have firsthand knowledge of the material facts, and that deposing the top executives of a corporation is likely to impose a significant burden.        

“I’m sounding the alarm against yet another proposed Big Oil merger,” the Senate majority leader tweeted Sunday.        

Susan Krinsky, LSAC’s executive vice president for operations and chief of staff, will serve as the organization’s interim CEO until a new president and CEO is appointed by the board.        

Defense counsel Barry Berke said his client, Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang, didn’t break the law in the run-up to the the collapse of a $36 billion investment fund.        

Marcia Fudge retired from government service in March. Before joining the Biden administration in 2021, she represented Northeast Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives.        

Simmons Hanly Conroy, based in the St. Louis metropolitan area, allegedly filed sham lawsuits and scripted witness testimony, according to plastic pipe manufacturer J-M Manufacturing.        

“Here, the communications between Ms. Carter and Wake Forest are more aptly characterized as isolated or attenuated, and are insufficient to give rise to jurisdiction,” Justice Cleo E. Powell said in the May 9 opinion.        

UTP—represented by White & Case; Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan; and Kohn, Swift & Graf—is seeking more than $150 million in damages against Pratt.        

“A district court has broad discretion and inherent authority to manage its docket. That’s what it did here, much to the apparent dismay of the Fifth Circuit,” U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman said.        

“I have known Chris for almost 50 years and he was a truly wonderful person, with a great sense of humor and an amazing intellect,” Chemerinsky, who also graduated from Harvard Law in 1978 where he first met Edley, told Law.com Saturday.