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Online vs. print at the high court
Frank Wagner, the Supreme Court's reporter of decisions is retiring on Sept. 30. But he is "very happy" to report that he won't be the last person to hold that position, in spite of technological change.
In the second installment of our interview with Wagner (the first is here) he talked about the future of printed versions of Court opinions in a digital age. His message: the bound volumes of U.S. Reports will be around for awhile.
Wagner also discussed stylistic differences among justices, including a still-unresolved debate over the use of apostrophes in plural possessives. Justices have not come to blows, and Wagner said he saw no urgent need to referee the difference of opinion, allowing each justice to handle it his or her own way.
If the name Kiwi Camara rings only a faint bell, here is a reminder: In 2001, then 16, he was the youngest student ever to enroll at Harvard Law School. Now the Harvard Law wunderkind returns to the limelight with a high-profile music downloading case.
A petition for a writ of mandamus is a request for an extraordinary court order, and one recently filed in the Supreme Court in a climate change related case is extraordinary in more than one way. The petition stems from a suit by a property owners against energy companies whose contributions to climate change, alleged the owners, increased the intensity of Hurricane Katrina.
Debra S. Katz, a partner at Washington's Katz, Marshall & Banks, previews the Supreme Court case, Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., which asks whether the Fair Labor Standards Act protects employees from retaliation for lodging verbal complaints.
A campaign is under way to win the hearts and minds of state attorneys general in the run-up to a major Supreme Court case testing the constitutionality of limits on the sale of violent video games.
The nearly 10-year legal battle over the class-action lawsuit alleging sex discrimination at Wal-Mart stores is now before the Supreme Court. Wal-Mart's petition challenging the class certification of more than 1 million female former and current workers was filed Wednesday by Gibson Dunn's Theodore Boutrous Jr.
David Frederick wrote the book on how to argue a case before the Supreme Court. With publication of the second edition of Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy, Frederick talked with Tony Mauro about the special nature of arguing before the high court.
For law schools, receiving a visit by a Supreme Court justice is the equivalent of being nominated for an Oscar. Last year, seven of the Court’s nine members traveled to law schools and universities at home and abroad, speaking, teaching and earning some fees for their efforts, according to their financial disclosure reports. A look and who went where and how much they were paid.
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