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By Charles Toutant | July 19, 2017
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez has filed a new motion to dismiss his corruption charges, finding hope in last week's appellate ruling reversing the bribery conviction of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
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By Tony Mauro | July 19, 2017
Two lawyers are leaving the U.S. solicitor general's office for private practice, two have joined from private firms, and more departures and hires are likely before the fall term begins in October.
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By Marcia Coyle | July 19, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, rejecting a Trump administration challenge, said grandparents, aunts, uncles and other family members with close U.S. relatives can travel here from six predominantly Muslim nations. But the court continued to bar refugees with sponsorship agreements with U.S. resettlement agencies.
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By Steven A. Meyerowitz | July 19, 2017
An appellate court in California has issued a decision in a case stemming from a massive explosion at a pipeline owned by Kinder Morgan, Inc., that further expands the reach of the “professional services” exclusion in commercial general liability (“CGL”) insurance policies.
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By Marcia Coyle | July 18, 2017
In the latest clash in the U.S. Supreme Court over the Trump administration's travel ban, Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal, a former acting U.S. solicitor general, took a dig at Jeffrey Wall, the current holder of that post, over the office's "traditional position" when it comes to taking cases to the justices.
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By Tony Mauro | July 18, 2017
Five protesters who disrupted a U.S. Supreme Court session with shouts and songs in 2015 should be sentenced to prison time and barred from the grounds of the court for a year, government lawyers said in court filings Monday.
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By Tony Mauro | July 18, 2017
After the term's last day, the justices play—and teach and make public appearances. Here are some highlights of their remarks so far.
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By Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle | July 17, 2017
Elena Kagan was far along in the new Obama administration's vetting process for an important U.S. Justice Department job when she got a call from the White House. That job she was in line to get? Well, the White House wanted her to do something else. Kagan was asked to be the U.S. solicitor general instead and was nominated for the position on Jan. 5, 2009. The rest is history.
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By Marcia Coyle | July 17, 2017
As the business community awaits a federal appellate court decision on the National Labor Relations Board's definition of "joint employer," another key labor case—one that also looks at the relationships between companies—is moving forward in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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By Tony Mauro | July 14, 2017
New U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will make one of his first off-bench public appearances July 17 at the judicial conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. Mary Kennedy, who fractured her hip in a fall, is expected to make a full recovery.
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