Judge Picks: The Washington Post reports that liberal activists are beginning to blame the Obama administration for moving too tentatively on judicial nominations. George W. Bush sent 95 names to the Senate in the same period that Barack Obama has forwarded 23.
Will There be a Concert Giant?: The Wall Street Journal reports that the proposed Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger is facing stiff resistance from the Justice Department and will require major concessions. The news comes a week after Britain's Competition Commission issued a preliminary opinion that the proposed merger would sharply reduce competition there.
Regulatory Carve-Out: Community banks and all but the largest credit unions would escape a new round of reviews by regulators, under a measure that won the support Thursday of the House Financial Services Committee, The New York Times reports. "Community banks and credit unions were perhaps not without sin in the last couple of years but they were certainly not engaged in the worst abuses," said Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.), one of the measure's sponsors.
Drywall Litigation: The new chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission said she would ask China to help pay for the billions of dollars in damage to U.S. homes blamed on Chinese-made drywall, The Wall Street Journal reports. CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum is headed to China next week for a summit about consumer safety.
Civil Disobedience: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has ruled that the First Amendment does not insulate animal rights activists from criminal liability when they use an Internet Web site to orchestrate a harassment campaign, the Legal Intelligencer reports via Law.com. Among the activists' tactics was the use of "black faxes" — repeatedly faxing a black piece of paper to the same fax machine to exhaust the toner or ink supply.
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