When Department of Labor Secretary nominee Alexander Acosta was an associate at Kirkland & Ellis in 1996, he worked on a case alongside future U.S. Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
The two lawyers represented coal mining companies in a union dispute with mine workers, according to a search of Bloomberg Law.
Roberts, while working at the law firm Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells), represented companies including KenAmerican Resources Inc. in their appeal before the D.C. Circuit, while Acosta was part of a Kirkland team handling the case throughout the course of litigation, which had stops at the ...
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