Avalon Zoppo

January 30, 2025 | National Law Journal

Giles will be a key adviser as Senate Republicans look to expand President Donald Trump’s mark on the judiciary even as he inherits far fewer judicial vacancies upon entering office than in his first term.

By Avalon Zoppo

3 minute read

January 29, 2025 | National Law Journal

President Donald Trump's firing of Gwynne Wilcox spurred the now former NLRB member to say she will be "pursuing all legal avenues" to challenge her removal from the five-member board three years before her term was set to expire, according to media reports.

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4 minute read

January 28, 2025 | National Law Journal

A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that each prisoner in a multi-prisoner suit proceeding in forma pauperis must pay the full amount of a filing fee.

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3 minute read

January 24, 2025 | National Law Journal

On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an NLRB order directing Macy’s to pay union members for "direct or foreseeable pecuniary harms” stemming from an unlawful lockout of workers after a strike, pursuant to the board’s 2022 Thryv v. NLRB opinion.

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5 minute read

January 24, 2025 | National Law Journal

It only took a few hours for challenges to Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order to hit the courts.

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5 minute read

January 23, 2025 | National Law Journal

"He pardoned people because they were doing his bidding, which was to break the law," said former federal appeals court Judge Thomas Vanaskie. "That's an abuse of the pardon power in my judgment. I think it really undermines the rule of law.”

By Avalon Zoppo

4 minute read

January 22, 2025 | National Law Journal

Proponents have long argued that the circuit covers too much territory and too many people and its docket is unmanageable; critics say the current system isn’t broken and motivations for the split are merely political.

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5 minute read

January 21, 2025 | National Law Journal

Just hours after President Donald Trump signed an order attempting to end birthright citizenship, the first legal challenge against the policy was brought in a federal trial court in New Hampshire.

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7 minute read

January 17, 2025 | National Law Journal

The D.C. Circuit said the federal government had shown that pepper spray can cause "serious bodily injury" and that the three men used it that way, therefore an enhancement was properly applied to the charges against them.

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3 minute read

January 16, 2025 | National Law Journal

Several legal groups that have backed major conservative victories in the courts—including First Liberty Institute and the New Civil Liberties Alliance—told the D.C. Court of Appeals that the proposal threatens the First Amendment rights of lawyers.

By Avalon Zoppo

5 minute read