Jimmy Hoover

Jimmy Hoover

Jimmy Hoover covers the Supreme Court for The National Law Journal. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @JimmyHooverDC. 

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October 08, 2024 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court Appears Likely to Uphold ATF's 'Ghost Gun' Rule

Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. asked an attorney for the kit manufacturers what the purpose of selling slightly unfinished firearm "receivers" is if not to convert them into functioning weapons.

By Jimmy Hoover

6 minute read

October 08, 2024 | Supreme Court Brief

Do Justices Have To Listen To Lower Courts?

"Counsel, we have had cases where we came out the other way than every court of appeals had come out, right?" Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. asked.

By Jimmy Hoover

6 minute read

October 07, 2024 | National Law Journal

In First Case of Term, Justices Review 'Kafkaesque' Alabama Procedural Bar

"What was Kafkaesque is the ruling that we couldn't challenge our inability to exhaust precisely because we haven't exhausted," said the plaintiffs' lawyer, Adam Unikowsky of Jenner & Block.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read

October 07, 2024 | Supreme Court Brief

And They're Off...

Jenner & Block's Adam Unikowsky will have the honor of throwing out the first pitch to the justices on opening day Monday in the case Williams v. Washington.

By Jimmy Hoover

6 minute read

October 04, 2024 | National Law Journal

High Court Turns Away Industry Challenges to EPA Rules Curbing Pollution

Friday's denials are a noticeable break from the court's decisions last term to take up, and ultimately rule in favor of, an emergency docket industry and state challenge to an EPA rule regulating air quality standards in upwind states.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read

October 04, 2024 | National Law Journal

Justices Will Consider Straight Woman's Reverse Discrimination Case Against Ohio

Marlean Ames alleges her boss, a gay woman, passed over her for a key promotion that ultimately went to another gay woman unqualified for the position.

By Jimmy Hoover

3 minute read

October 04, 2024 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court Will Scrutinize Mexico's Lawsuit Against US Gun Industry

A federal appeals court has held that the federal 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act does not provide gun makers immunity from claims that they facilitated the illegal sale of firearms.

By Jimmy Hoover

3 minute read

October 03, 2024 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court Will Begin New Term Dogged by Old Issues

The high court finds itself under as much scrutiny as ever as it prepares to reconvene Monday for the start of the October 2024 term.

By Jimmy Hoover

16 minute read

October 01, 2024 | National Law Journal

Biden Administration Appeals 5th Circuit's Nondelegation Ruling to Supreme Court

The stage appears to be set for the justices to grant review, given that the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits have rejected nondelegation challenges, thus creating the type of "circuit split" that increases the chances of Supreme Court intervention.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read

September 30, 2024 | National Law Journal

Covington Adding Former DOJ Civil Appellate Head to Supreme Court Practice

Sarah Harrington, who has argued 22 times before the justices, says she is "not afraid of a hot bench."

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read