By Mike Scarcella | May 19, 2021
The commission's five areas of research are: the genesis of the reform debate; the court's role in the constitutional system; length and tenure of justices; membership and size of the court; and issues surrounding case selection.
By Alaina Lancaster | May 14, 2021
Circuit Judge Patrick Bumatay dissented to the court's order denying rehearing in the case—which questions whether the former CFPB acting director validly ratified a civil investigative demand into Seila Law.
By Alaina Lancaster | May 14, 2021
During a panel at the Northern District of California's virtual conference, Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Melissa Murray of NYU School of Law outlined how the justice's presence has shifted the high court's institutional dynamics.
By Marcia Coyle | May 14, 2021
Over the years, scholars have looked closely at the justices' questioning habits, trying to decipher what it might mean for one side or the other to get more, or fewer, questions.
By Mike Scarcella | May 12, 2021
O'Melveny & Myers and Morrison & Foerster are among the firms seeking fees for advocacy in a long-running abortion rights case that went to the Supreme Court last term. Stanford's Jeff Fisher, the veteran Supreme Court practitioner, is among the lawyers whose work on the case was highlighted in a fee petition.
By Marcia Coyle | May 11, 2021
Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, have said the court should reexamine the 1990 precedent Keller v. State Bar of California, which, many courts have held, foreclosed First Amendment challenges to bar organizations.
By Marcia Coyle | May 4, 2021
Responding to Roberts on Tuesday, DOJ's Eric Feigin said: "Well, your honor, I don't know that we have a specific set of procedures or guidelines that I could kind of publicly share."
By Jacqueline Thomsen | April 23, 2021
The Biden Justice Department this week agreed to pay $1.5 million in attorney fees to end a Trump-era census lawsuit after the Trump DOJ paid roughly $9 million to resolve litigation over the failed attempt to add a citizenship question to the census.
By Marcia Coyle | April 16, 2021
A subcommittee formed by the federal Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules said a push to provide greater transparency about amicus briefs raises "important and complex issues that deserve further investigation and consideration."
By Jacqueline Thomsen | April 15, 2021
Democrats' bill to expand the U.S. Supreme Court may be all but dead on arrival in Congress—but lawmakers have their eyes on a number of other pieces of legislation touching the federal courts.
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