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Marcia Coyle, based in Washington, covers the U.S. Supreme Court. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @MarciaCoyle
April 7, 2021 | National Law Journal
"I hope and expect that the court will retain its authority, an authority that my stories have shown was hard-won. But that authority, like the rule of law, depends on trust," Justice Breyer said.
By Marcia Coyle
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April 1, 2021 | National Law Journal
"Appellate judges spend virtually every working hour speaking, listening to, reading, or writing English prose. Statutes are written in English prose, and interpretation is not a technical exercise to be carried out by mechanically applying a set of arcane rules," Alito wrote in a concurrence in the case Facebook Inc. v. Duguid, which confronted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
By Marcia Coyle
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March 31, 2021 | National Law Journal
Of course, other advocates have made similar errors in nonpandemic times in the courtroom in front of the justices.
By Marcia Coyle
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March 25, 2021 | National Law Journal
"Ford has a veritable truckload of contacts with Montana and Minnesota, as it admits," Justice Elena Kagan wrote in Thursday's ruling.
By Marcia Coyle
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March 19, 2021 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Lawyers care as much about how their words appear in filings as what arguments those words are making. Here's a roundup of some of the things lawyers were saying on social media about the D.C. Circuit's discouragement of using the Garamond typeface.
By Marcia Coyle and Mike Scarcella
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March 15, 2021 | National Law Journal
The public campaign has echoes to Obama-era op-ed pieces, as some legal scholars urged the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to step down.
By Marcia Coyle
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March 4, 2021 | National Law Journal
The "customary criteria" for a debut majority decision at the U.S. Supreme Court, one court scholar writes, is a "unanimous decision in a case lacking great controversy."
By Marcia Coyle
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March 2, 2021 | National Law Journal
The justices reviewed a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that struck down two state voting rules under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act: the state's out-of-precinct policy in which the state discards all ballots cast by voters in the wrong precinct, and its criminal law barring the collection of early ballots by most third parties.
By Marcia Coyle
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February 23, 2021 | National Law Journal
The unusual faceoff between current and former Hogan Lovells partners began with good luck wishes and ended with high praise.
By Marcia Coyle
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February 19, 2021 | National Law Journal
Clerking for Justice Sonia Sotomayor "was more in every dimension than I could have imagined—more challenging, more fun, more heartbreaking, more encouraging. I tell people going into the court they will experience every emotion available to you," Cooley's Julie Veroff says.
By Marcia Coyle
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