#Senate Judiciary Committee

#Senate Judiciary Committee

"Despite Vidal's disagreement with VLSI, she stopped short of imposing sanctions 'because I agree that, for the most part, the allegations contained in the Rehearing Request were already asserted in a publicly available blog article,' she said."U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal said in an Order filed yesterday in IPR2021-01229 between Patent Quality Assurance (PQA)/Intel and VLSI Technology that VLSI's reference in its Rehearing Request to an "unsolicited, anonymous, and improper ex parte communication" about the relationship between PQA and Intel that Vidal had put under seal has put VLSI on thin ice and in danger of being sanctioned.

Chief Justice John Roberts says he won't testify before a Senate panel that is examining judicial ethics.Alex Wong/Getty Images Chief Justice John Roberts has declined an invitation from Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to testify before the panel, calling such testimony by chief justices "exceedingly rare."

Chief Justice John Roberts says he won't testify before a Senate panel that is examining judicial ethics.Alex Wong/Getty Images Chief Justice John Roberts has declined an invitation from Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to testify before the panel, calling such testimony by chief justices "exceedingly rare."

Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose a 2014 real estate deal he made with a GOP megadonor, according to a ProPublica report published Thursday.The deal involved the sale of three properties in Savannah, Georgia, that were owned by Thomas and his relatives to the megadonor, Harlan Crow, according to ProPublica, which said that tax and property records showed that Crow made the purchases through one of his companies for a total of $133,363.

Chief Justice John Roberts has declined to directly respond to a congressional request for his testimony at a Supreme Court ethics hearing next month about Justice Clarence Thomas' alleged ethical lapses.Roberts instead referred the request from Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin to the Judicial Conference, which serves as the policy-making body of the federal courts.