By Mike Scarcella | June 18, 2018
U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco also urged the justices to grant review in the Apple antitrust case, which will be argued this fall. “The importance of the question presented will only grow as commerce continues to move online,” he wrote. The Apple dispute was one of five case the justices added to their argument docket for the 2018-2019 term.
By Tony Mauro | June 12, 2018
Celia Choy and Dahlia Mignouna, both Yale Law School graduates, will continue in their practice in the firm's 12-lawyer Washington, D.C., office until they head to the court in the summer of 2019 to clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer. More than half of the lawyers in Munger's office here are women, and a third are racial or ethnic minorities.
By Marcia Coyle | June 4, 2018
Justices Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer joined Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority ruling. Kagan opened her concurring opinion by quoting Kennedy: "It is a general rule that [religious and philosophical] objections do not allow business owners and other actors in the economy and in society to deny protected persons equal access to goods and services under a neutral and generally applicable public accommodations law."
By Marcia Coyle | May 25, 2018
There may be another way: "non-mutual offensive collateral estoppel." The concept is fairly established in the law, but it has not been used much. And judges and arbitrators have broad discretion whether to apply it in any given case.
By Marcia Coyle | May 23, 2018
Noel Francisco, the U.S. solicitor general, told the justices that questions surrounding judges' use of social media “would benefit from further development in the lower courts” before the Supreme Court takes up a case raising these issues.
By Marcia Coyle | Tony Mauro | May 21, 2018
"The policy may be debatable but the law is clear: Congress has instructed that arbitration agreements like those before us must be enforced as written," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority. In dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the decision "egregiously wrong."
By Scott Graham | May 11, 2018
Heninger Garrison Davis serves up a challenge to AIA proceedings that Justice Clarence Thomas refused to rule out.
By Tony Mauro | May 10, 2018
The RBG documentary captures the human and professional sides of an increasingly larger-than-life judicial icon, now 85.
By Marcia Coyle | May 9, 2018
"The importance of the question presented will only grow as commerce continues to move online," the U.S. Department of Justice told the Supreme Court in an amicus brief backing Apple Inc.'s position in a closely watched antitrust case.
By Marcia Coyle | May 7, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recently threw her support behind a hiring plan developed by the Ad Hoc Committee on Law Clerk Hiring—a committee which includes Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Sidney Thomas.
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