It was 10:30 in the morning on Thursday when top litigators including Gibson Dunn & Crutcher’s Randy Mastro; Dechert’s Andrew Levander; Thompson & Knight’s Marion Bachrach and Morgan Lewis & Bockius’ Christopher Parlo assembled in the Foley Square courtroom of U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan.

The topic: motions for sanctions in a high-profile suit against Fox News by former host Andrea Tantaros.