NOTICE OF COMMITTEE HEARING

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on "Courting Big Business: The Supreme Court's Recent Decisions on Corporate Misconduct and Laws Regulating Corporations" for Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building.

No witness list yet.

Given last week's Capitol Hill rally by liberal women's groups, the Ledbetter decision could certainly be one of the rulings to be criticized.

UPDATE: Guessed wrong, looks like. The witnesses are now listed:

• Osa M. Schultz
, a plaintiff in the Exxon Valdez litigation.
• Professor Elizabeth Bartholet, Morris Wasserstein Professor of Law, with extensive arbitration and mediation expertise.
• Patricia Ann Millett, partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, who heads the firm's Supreme Court practice.