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KANSAS REPUBLICAN SENATORS Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran may have succeeded Thursday in killing President Obama’s nomination of former Kansas Attorney General Steve Six to Denver’s 10th U.S. Circuit of Appeals, the Wichita Eagle writes today in an editorial headlined “Steve Six deserved better.” Says the Eagle: “That’s no credit to either senator, because their fellow Kansan has the resume and reputation for the job. After weeks of delay, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Thursday that the panel would not take up the nomination “in deference to the objections of the Kansas senators” — though he noted in a letter to Roberts that no disqualifying information had emerged in the committee’s review process, confirmation hearing or other questioning of Six.”
GOING IN-HOUSE: Hogan’s Rich Mattera, to UnitedHealth.
HURRY, HURRY: Today’s the last day to nominate people for our top legal professionals issue and to vote on our 2011 Barrister’s Best awards.
LARIMER GRAND JURY indicts Lt. Jim Broderick a second time on perjury charges. Broderick’s attorney, Patrick Tooley.
PHONE HOME: The committee set up by News Corp. to address the practices at the heart of the phone-hacking scandal at its U.K. newspapers has retained the law firm Arnold & Porter LLP to assist it.
EVEN AT $50K A YEAR, law school is still a good buy, University of Colorado Law Dean Phil Weiser says.
IN POTENTIALLY LANDMARK LOBATO SUIT, Colorado’s governor and attorney general stand against education-funding challenge.
BOULDER DA STAN GARNETT expands consumer protection division. New director: Jane Walsh.
TIMOTHY ALGER is leaving his job as head of litigation at Google Inc. to join Perkins Coie as a litigation partner in Palo Alto, Calif.
ETHICS WATCH sues Colorado secretary of state over campaign-finance rule change.
TODAY’S 10TH CIRCUIT DECISIONS
COMMUNITY LEGAL EVENTS CALENDAR is here.
COMING WEEK’S FEDERAL COURT CALENDARS available here later today.
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