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The Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held a field hearing in Nashville, Tennessee, on the Music Modernization Act five years on. Witnesses included s…

State and federal judges joined other legal experts to testify on judicial branch diversity before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on courts. Topics included pathways to law school for mino…

Legal experts testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts on the Supreme Court’s case load and “shadow docket,” which consists of emergency orders and decisions not heard in …

Current and former judges testified at a House Judiciary subcommittee hybrid hearing on how the federal courts are responding to the coronavirus pandemic. The witnesses discussed the use of …

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet held a hearing to examine ethics and recusal laws in the federal courts. Witnesses included two law profess…

Three judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals testified at a hearing on proposals to split the court, which is the largest of the 13 U.S. Courts of Appeals. The hearing began with …

The committee marked up the Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act, legislation intended to amend title four of the United States Code to encourage the display of the flag of the United States…

Witnesses testified at a hearing on the scope and potential of new technologies being developed for the growing network of interconnected devices, everyday physical objects such as cars and …

Representatives Steve King (R-IA) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) testified at a hearing on H.R. 917, their bill that would allow judges to permit photography and videography in federal courts and pr…

Music recording and broadcasting industry representatives testified at a hearing on performed music licensing laws. They talked about the patchwork of licensing laws outdated by the myriad w…

Witnesses from the music recording industry testified on music licensing laws and how royalties are calculated for songwriters and publishers. Members also questioned on the increasing use o…

Witnesses testified on materials that can be protected under copyright law, the extent of that protection, and specific rights that should and should not be included in that protection. Rega…

Satellite television executives and attorneys specializing in intellectual property testified about retransmission consent, which requires cable providers to get permission and pay for netwo…

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition held a hearing examining the proposed merger between pharmacy benefit management companies Express Scripts and Medco Health Solutions. Among t…

Witnesses testified on the proposed merger between the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Euronext and Deutsche Boerse companies. Lawrence Leibowitz said the merger would lead to more job losses…