By Marcia Coyle | March 4, 2021
The "customary criteria" for a debut majority decision at the U.S. Supreme Court, one court scholar writes, is a "unanimous decision in a case lacking great controversy."
By Marcia Coyle | March 2, 2021
The justices reviewed a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that struck down two state voting rules under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act: the state's out-of-precinct policy in which the state discards all ballots cast by voters in the wrong precinct, and its criminal law barring the collection of early ballots by most third parties.
By Alaina Lancaster | February 26, 2021
The ruling is the latest in an ongoing feud in Oregon and elsewhere over whether such compulsory payments violate the First Amendment rights of attorneys.
By Jacqueline Thomsen | February 26, 2021
In the weeks since President Joe Biden's inauguration, the Department of Justice has dropped some cases, moved forward with others and officially changed its stance in a handful of pending lawsuits from the Trump administration.
By Marcia Coyle | February 24, 2021
"A hot pursuit has to be hot and the arrestee has to be avoiding arrest," Justice Samuel Alito Jr. told Stanford Law School's Jeffrey Fisher during one exchange in a key Fourth Amendment case.
By Nate Robson | February 23, 2021
The unusual faceoff between current and former Hogan Lovells partners began with good luck wishes and ended with high praise.
By Marcia Coyle | February 22, 2021
Justice Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should have granted review to make clear whether state officials have the authority they claimed in the Pennsylvania case.
By Marcia Coyle | February 19, 2021
Clerking for Justice Sonia Sotomayor "was more in every dimension than I could have imagined—more challenging, more fun, more heartbreaking, more encouraging. I tell people going into the court they will experience every emotion available to you," Cooley's Julie Veroff says.
By Jacqueline Thomsen | February 17, 2021
The Ku Klux Klan Act is featured in recent lawsuits against Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, as well as a case against the organizers of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2018.
By Marcia Coyle | February 12, 2021
What would a conviction take, the prominent Gibson Dunn partner said, "if it isn't encouraging, condoning and inciting an attempt at a violent overthrow of the government of the United States in the Capitol Building at a time when Congress is performing one of the most important constitutional responsibilities given to it?"
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