In the News Today – April 20, 2015

An editorial in The Wall Street Journal considers whether the arrest of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver will expose the “rotten links between politicians and trial lawyers” in the state’s courts, particularly the Consolidated Asbestos Litigation docket. (Wall Street Journal)

Chevron Corp will spar in appeals court today with Steven Donziger, the lawyer whose prior multibillion-dollar verdict against the oil giant was later found to have been “tainted by bribery and other corrupt misconduct.” (Wall Street Journal)