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.
May 22, 2023 | National Law Journal
Will the Supreme Court Revisit 'New York Times v. Sullivan'?Former coal magnate Don Blankenship challenges landmark First Amendment decision in bid to revive his defamation claim against cable giants who called him a "convicted felon."
By Jimmy Hoover
7 minute read
May 19, 2023 | National Law Journal
How Justice Jackson Succeeded Justice Breyer in More Ways Than OneFrom their style at oral arguments to their interaction with law clerks, the similarities between Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and her predecessor, Stephen Breyer, are striking.
By Jimmy Hoover
10 minute read
May 19, 2023 | National Law Journal
Sanofi Can Thank Thomas Edison And Samuel Morse For IP WinWelcome to a special edition of The Supreme Court Brief. The court handed down six decisions Thursday morning, taking another bite out of a large opinion…
By Jimmy Hoover
6 minute read
May 18, 2023 | National Law Journal
Gorsuch Slams Federal Judiciary's Response to Pandemic MeasuresThe justice says judges were too deferential to governmental exercise of emergency powers.
By Jimmy Hoover
3 minute read
May 18, 2023 | National Law Journal
Justices Leave Big Tech's Immunity Intact, Reject Terrorism Claims Against Social NetworkSupreme Court rejects claims that Twitter, Facebook and Google "aided and abetted" ISIS terrorists without addressing immunity provision in Communications Decency Act.
By Jimmy Hoover
5 minute read
May 18, 2023 | National Law Journal
Supreme Court Rules Against Andy Warhol in Copyright Fight Over Prince PortraitDecision spurs unusually sharp back-and-forth between Justice Sonia Sotomayor's majority opinion and Justice Elena Kagan's dissent on the fair-use doctrine.
By Jimmy Hoover
5 minute read
May 16, 2023 | National Law Journal
Breyer Looks Back on Sexism Faced by Female Harvard Classmates"They were having a tougher time than we thought," retired Justice Stephen Breyer said of his female peers at Harvard Law School in the early 1960s.
By Jimmy Hoover
4 minute read
May 15, 2023 | National Law Journal
Justices Will Weigh If South Carolina Congressional District Is 'Racial Gerrymander'State lawmakers say they used political—not racial—data to make the district safer for Republican candidates.
By Jimmy Hoover
4 minute read
May 15, 2023 | National Law Journal
Supreme Court Will Consider Lawmakers' Access to Trump's Post Office LeaseThe case asks whether a nearly 100-year-old law allows individual members of Congress to sue executive agencies that refuse document requests.
By Jimmy Hoover
3 minute read
May 12, 2023 | National Law Journal
Jumbled Justices: 'Pork' Ruling Produced Strange Lineup, Five OpinionsSupreme Court's decision brings little clarity to dormant commerce clause jurisprudence.
By Jimmy Hoover
5 minute read
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