Avalon Zoppo

January 04, 2023 | National Law Journal

William "Rick" Singer expressed regret over his role in orchestrating the nationwide college admissions scandal.

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3 minute read

January 03, 2023 | Supreme Court Brief

The justices will begin hearing cases next week, and one to watch involves attorney-client privilege questions.

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5 minute read

December 31, 2022 | National Law Journal

"Judicial opinions speak for themselves," Roberts noted — while not everyone may agree with a particular court decision, discord can never escalate to using violence against judges.

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December 30, 2022 | National Law Journal

In dismissing the lawsuit earlier this year, U.S. District Judge John Kness highlighted the U.S. Supreme Court's decision last year in a challenge to Texas' six-week abortion ban.

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3 minute read

December 29, 2022 | National Law Journal

"If the Supreme Court decides to reassess its precedents in this area, I urge them to not blink the fact of grievous harm that hate speech causes its targets," Judge Gould wrote in a concurrence.

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3 minute read

December 28, 2022 | National Law Journal

The statute prohibits female candidates from running in elections to replace male commissioners, and vice versa.

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3 minute read

December 27, 2022 | National Law Journal

The panel handled 216 of 474 new bankruptcy appeals in the 2021 fiscal year, the Ninth Circuit said.

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2 minute read

December 27, 2022 | National Law Journal

"They are now suffering and will continue to suffer grave, immediate, and ongoing injuries to the exercise of their faith," the judges said.

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3 minute read

December 22, 2022 | National Law Journal

"There will be an uptick in filings in our court of appeals but ... we think the court of appeals will be able to accommodate the uptick," one judge said of the North Carolina state judiciary's projected increase in incoming appeals next year.

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7 minute read

December 21, 2022 | National Law Journal

In reversing the district court decision, the judges pointed to a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a Massachusetts law creating a 35-foot "buffer zone" outside abortion clinics as violating the First Amendment.

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