By Mike Scarcella | December 20, 2017
"The Chief Justice has asked me to establish a working group to examine the sufficiency of the safeguards currently in place within the Judiciary to protect court employees, including law clerks, from wrongful conduct in the workplace," James Duff, director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Court, said in a memo.
By Tony Mauro | December 20, 2017
The bureau's press statement offers some hints about why Joseph Story, a justice from 1811 to 1845, is being honored, but not about why Louis Brandeis, formerly a pro-consumer litigator, was sidelined.
By Tony Mauro | December 19, 2017
The federal law clerk handbook was revised Monday to include language that says nothing in the code of conduct prevents a clerk, or another judiciary employee, from revealing alleged misconduct. "Clerks are encouraged to bring such matters to the attention of an appropriate judge or other official," the handbook now says.
By Cogan Schneier | December 18, 2017
The government has already appealed the ruling, which was stayed for 24 hours.
By Tony Mauro | December 18, 2017
The new book “Table for 9” recounts the history of the U.S. Supreme Court's dining traditions, and throws in some recipes to boot. The book's worth a read as much for the glimpses it gives into the lives of the justices as the recipes that are included.
By Ross Todd | December 15, 2017
Chief Justice John Roberts has called on Chief Judge Robert Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to head up an inquiry into sexual harassment complaints against Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski.
National Law Journal | Podcast
By Tony Mauro | December 15, 2017
New research by Supreme Court correspondent Tony Mauro found coveted clerkships at the Supreme Court continue to mostly still go to white male lawyers.
By Cogan Schneier | December 15, 2017
Petersen, an FEC commissioner and former Wiley Rein summer associate, had trouble answering basic legal questions in his hearing this week, like defining motion in limine and Daubert standard.
By Marcia Coyle | December 15, 2017
"The state of Washington has no business demanding nationwide data from some of the biggest private companies in the country," lawyers for Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. tell a federal judge in Tacoma, Washington.
National Law Journal | Slideshow
By Tony Mauro | December 14, 2017
Three D.C. Circuit judges got to play Supreme Court justices on Dec. 14— nearly 60 years after the Warren Court heard arguments in the First Amendment challenge: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District.
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