Jimmy Hoover

May 25, 2023 | National Law Journal

The justices summarily ruled against the agency Monday. Here's why the government's decision to essentially concede defeat in the case may have been a smart move.

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read

May 23, 2023 | National Law Journal

The billionaire GOP donor has taken a defiant stance against efforts to investigate decades of secret luxury travel perks and other benefits reportedly provided to Justice Thomas.

By Jimmy Hoover

6 minute read

May 22, 2023 | National Law Journal

Former coal magnate Don Blankenship challenges landmark First Amendment decision in bid to revive his defamation claim against cable giants who called him a "convicted felon."

By Jimmy Hoover

7 minute read

May 19, 2023 | National Law Journal

From their style at oral arguments to their interaction with law clerks, the similarities between Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and her predecessor, Stephen Breyer, are striking.

By Jimmy Hoover

10 minute read

May 19, 2023 | National Law Journal

Welcome to a special edition of The Supreme Court Brief. The court handed down six decisions Thursday morning, taking another bite out of a large opinion…

By Jimmy Hoover

6 minute read

May 18, 2023 | National Law Journal

The justice says judges were too deferential to governmental exercise of emergency powers.

By Jimmy Hoover

3 minute read

May 18, 2023 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court rejects claims that Twitter, Facebook and Google "aided and abetted" ISIS terrorists without addressing immunity provision in Communications Decency Act.

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read

May 18, 2023 | National Law Journal

Decision spurs unusually sharp back-and-forth between Justice Sonia Sotomayor's majority opinion and Justice Elena Kagan's dissent on the fair-use doctrine.

By Jimmy Hoover

5 minute read

May 16, 2023 | National Law Journal

"They were having a tougher time than we thought," retired Justice Stephen Breyer said of his female peers at Harvard Law School in the early 1960s.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read

May 15, 2023 | National Law Journal

State lawmakers say they used political—not racial—data to make the district safer for Republican candidates.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read