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Marcia Coyle, based in Washington, covers the U.S. Supreme Court. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @MarciaCoyle
April 20, 2017 | National Law Journal
A team from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, representing the medical marijuana advocate Americans for Safe Access, isn't holding its breath for federal drug enforcement officials to erase their alleged misstatements about the health risks of cannabis.
By Marcia Coyle
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April 19, 2017 | National Law Journal
Stuart Banner is a legal historian who has written books on the history of baseball's antitrust exemption, the struggle to control airspace and how American Indians lost their land. On Wednesday, Banner achieved a new distinction: He won his first U.S. Supreme Court argument.
By Marcia Coyle
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April 18, 2017 | Supreme Court Brief
Banks, retailers, finance companies and other entities that buy and sell loans are sounding alarms about a U.S. Supreme Court case that could bring them under the regulatory eye of a 1977 law that prohibits certain debt collection practices.
By Marcia Coyle
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April 12, 2017 | National Law Journal
Thirteen years after suing the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority—and winning a $655 million jury award in 2015—the American victims and estates of victims of a series of bombings and shootings in Israel are asking the justices to overturn a federal appeals court decision that jettisoned them out of court.
By Marcia Coyle
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April 11, 2017 | National Law Journal
Just days before Neil Gorsuch will plunge into the U.S. Supreme Court's menu of regulatory challenges, a Washington federal appeals judge on Tuesday turned to the newest justice to bolster her own concerns about the deference that courts give to agencies' interpretation of their rules.
By Marcia Coyle
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April 6, 2017 | National Law Journal
The Trump administration didn't sideline former Jones Day partner Noel Francisco for any performance reasons. Rather, federal law bars Francisco from serving as the acting head of the office to which he has been nominated to lead on a permanent basis. The "acting" SG title has passed indefinitely to the lawyer Francisco chose as his principal deputy—former Sullivan & Cromwell special counsel Jeffrey Wall.
By Marcia Coyle
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April 3, 2017 | National Law Journal
Employers who succeed or fail in blocking an investigative subpoena by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will find the district court's decision likely to survive on appeal under a standard the U.S. Supreme Court announced on Monday.
By Marcia Coyle
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April 3, 2017 | National Law Journal
In 2016, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr pro bono lawyers upended the death sentencing scheme in Florida and other states, opened the door to potentially thousands of dollars in federal contracts for veteran-owned small businesses, and reined in how certain offenses count toward deportation and enhanced sentences. And that was just in the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Marcia Coyle
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March 27, 2017 |
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday took up an employee-retirement dispute that threatens to expose religious-affiliated, nonprofit health care systems to billions of dollars in retroactive penalties rooted in the protection of pensions.
By Marcia Coyle
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January 19, 2016 | National Law Journal
A seven-year fight between a pharmaceutical company and the Federal Trade Commission over documents in an antitrust investigation ended at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday when the justices declined to review questions concerning lawyers' work-product protections.
By Marcia Coyle
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