Avalon Zoppo

June 16, 2022 | National Law Journal

The committee did advance judicial nominees for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second and First circuits.

By Avalon Zoppo

3 minute read

June 15, 2022 | National Law Journal

The White House also announced picks for the Ninth Circuit and several district courts.

By Avalon Zoppo

5 minute read

June 14, 2022 | National Law Journal

One concurring judge called a dissenter's argument "so plainly wrong it borders on the offensive."

By Avalon Zoppo

5 minute read

June 14, 2022 | The Recorder

The Trump appointee accused his colleagues of repeatedly searching for ways to overturn agency decisions against migrants.

By Avalon Zoppo

5 minute read

June 13, 2022 | National Law Journal

A 2013 amendment to a federal cyberstalking law was at the heart of the appeal.

By Avalon Zoppo

4 minute read

June 10, 2022 | National Law Journal

Judge Jeffrey Sutton said he was "very dubious" of relying on recent immigration arrest data, suggesting the COVID-19 pandemic may have had an impact on the numbers.

By Avalon Zoppo

4 minute read

June 10, 2022 | Law.com

Plus: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's introduction of nominees to the Sentencing Commission is a hopeful sign that the understaffed body can soon get back to its work.

By Avalon Zoppo | Brad Kutner

9 minute read

June 07, 2022 | National Law Journal

"We're not binding ourselves to the text if we only follow it when people like the result. … If you're not an originalist in every case, then you're not really an originalist at all," Ho argued.

By Avalon Zoppo

3 minute read

June 07, 2022 | National Law Journal

Republican-appointed chief judges issued mask mandates 43.1 percent of the time and Democratic-appointed chief judges did so 52.0 percent of the time between March 2020 and July 2021, the study found.

By Avalon Zoppo

4 minute read

June 03, 2022 | National Law Journal

"Because this rule is inconsistent with Title VII and because intervening Supreme Court authority has eroded its reasoning, we now overrule it," the en banc court said.

By Avalon Zoppo

5 minute read