By C. Ryan Barber | June 22, 2017
Since the dawn of the digital age, tech companies have grappled with the protection of privacy rights amid demands from foreign and domestic authorities seeking evidence for investigations. Those competing pressures have meant a tricky balancing act—but Google's top lawyer has some ideas for making it easier.
By JOHN COUNCIL | June 22, 2017
Judge Jerry Smith wrote that the plaintiffs lacked standing because they could not prove they'd been injured by the law.
By Tony Mauro | June 19, 2017
In a unanimous decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the court made numerous references to the importance of social media as a source of news and a forum for the exchange of views.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 19, 2017
The ACLU's legal efforts in obtaining records of everyone detained or removed under President Donald Trump's executive orders on immigration might have to wait a bit longer after the U.S. Department of Justice moved last month to coordinate the organization's 13 lawsuits into multidistrict litigation.
By Cogan Schneier | June 14, 2017
From nongovernmental advocacy groups to elected officials, plaintiffs challenging President Donald Trump over his business holdings are lining up in federal courts.
By Cogan Schneier | June 14, 2017
Does a U.S. attorney general have to tell senators about his private conversations with the president when asked? Some lawyers say that's not a straightforward yes-or-no question.
By Marcia Coyle | June 14, 2017
Lower courts don't offer much guidance on how to resolve clashes between presidential speech and the U.S. Justice Department's litigation positions, Kate Shaw of Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law found in a forthcoming article. In "Beyond the Bully Pulpit: Presidential Speech in the Courts," Shaw undertook what she called "the first systematic examination of presidential speech in the courts." Shaw talks about her review in this Q&A with senior Washington correspondent Marcia Coyle.
By Marcia Coyle | June 14, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court's conference on Thursday includes a challenge to concealed-carry restrictions in California. The Orlando nightclub shooting in June 2016 occurred days before the court declined to hear a challenge to post-Sandy Hook gun laws.
By Cogan Schneier | June 12, 2017
Attorneys general in Maryland and D.C. are looking to establish standing to bring an emoluments suit against the president over his business practices.
By Lizzy McLellan | June 5, 2017
Presidential politics may have helped drive a top media partner at Holland & Knight to jump to Ballard Spahr.
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