Senate To Vote On Appeals Court Nominee Martin

The Senate on Wednesday is expected to confirm Beverly Baldwin Martin, President Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, CQ Today reports. Martin would be the fourth Obama appeals court nominee to receive a vote. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Martin’s nomination by a voice vote in September 2009…

Appeals Court Reinstates More Than 100 Lawsuits Against Makers Of HRT Prempro

The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on Wednesday reinstated more than 100 lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies filed by women or their surviving relatives claiming that the companies’ hormone replacement therapy drugs caused breast cancer, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports…

Conservatives Divided Over Whether To Filibuster Obama Judicial Nominee Hamilton

Senate Republicans and conservative activists appear to be at an impasse over whether to attempt to filibuster President Obama’s nomination of Indiana Judge David Hamilton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, The Hill reports (Bolton, The Hill, 11/15).

Appeals Court Panel Says Pharmacists Must Distribute Emergency Contraception Under Washington State Regulation

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Wednesday unanimously ruled to lift an injunction blocking Washington state officials from penalizing pharmacists who refused to dispense the emergency contraception pill Plan B, the Los Angeles Times reports (Williams, Los Angeles Times, 7/9).

Obama Announces Appeals Court Judge Sotomayor As Supreme Court Nominee

President Obama this morning announced Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals as his nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter, the New York Times’ “The Caucus” reports.

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