Jimmy Hoover covers the Supreme Court for The National Law Journal. He can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @JimmyHooverDC.
October 08, 2024 | Supreme Court Brief
Do Justices Have To Listen To Lower Courts?"Counsel, we have had cases where we came out the other way than every court of appeals had come out, right?" Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. asked.
By Jimmy Hoover
6 minute read
October 07, 2024 | National Law Journal
In First Case of Term, Justices Review 'Kafkaesque' Alabama Procedural Bar"What was Kafkaesque is the ruling that we couldn't challenge our inability to exhaust precisely because we haven't exhausted," said the plaintiffs' lawyer, Adam Unikowsky of Jenner & Block.
By Jimmy Hoover
4 minute read
October 07, 2024 | Supreme Court Brief
And They're Off...Jenner & Block's Adam Unikowsky will have the honor of throwing out the first pitch to the justices on opening day Monday in the case Williams v. Washington.
By Jimmy Hoover
6 minute read
October 04, 2024 | National Law Journal
High Court Turns Away Industry Challenges to EPA Rules Curbing PollutionFriday's denials are a noticeable break from the court's decisions last term to take up, and ultimately rule in favor of, an emergency docket industry and state challenge to an EPA rule regulating air quality standards in upwind states.
By Jimmy Hoover
4 minute read
October 04, 2024 | National Law Journal
Justices Will Consider Straight Woman's Reverse Discrimination Case Against OhioMarlean Ames alleges her boss, a gay woman, passed over her for a key promotion that ultimately went to another gay woman unqualified for the position.
By Jimmy Hoover
3 minute read
October 04, 2024 | National Law Journal
Supreme Court Will Scrutinize Mexico's Lawsuit Against US Gun IndustryA federal appeals court has held that the federal 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act does not provide gun makers immunity from claims that they facilitated the illegal sale of firearms.
By Jimmy Hoover
3 minute read
October 03, 2024 | National Law Journal
Supreme Court Will Begin New Term Dogged by Old IssuesThe high court finds itself under as much scrutiny as ever as it prepares to reconvene Monday for the start of the October 2024 term.
By Jimmy Hoover
16 minute read
October 01, 2024 | National Law Journal
Biden Administration Appeals 5th Circuit's Nondelegation Ruling to Supreme CourtThe stage appears to be set for the justices to grant review, given that the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits have rejected nondelegation challenges, thus creating the type of "circuit split" that increases the chances of Supreme Court intervention.
By Jimmy Hoover
4 minute read
September 30, 2024 | National Law Journal
Covington Adding Former DOJ Civil Appellate Head to Supreme Court PracticeSarah Harrington, who has argued 22 times before the justices, says she is "not afraid of a hot bench."
By Jimmy Hoover
5 minute read
September 26, 2024 | National Law Journal
'Be Not Afraid': Kavanaugh on the Importance of Being Thick-Skinned"In my job, you lose a lot of friends and that's just the reality of it," Justice Brett Kavanaugh said at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law.
By Jimmy Hoover
4 minute read