Marcia Coyle

April 20, 2011 | Legaltech News

By Marcia Coyle

6 minute read

August 20, 2003 | Law.com

Two new challenges to parts of the USA Patriot Act -- Congress' massive response to Sept. 11, 2001 -- face daunting hurdles but are likely to be only the first of several suits. "This is not the final gunshot. It's the opening salvo," said Charles Shanor of Emory University School of Law. The process involves weighing whether the judgments made in the act were appropriate or over-reactions, Shanor and others said.

By Marcia Coyle

9 minute read

April 28, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Class action arbitrations may soon be confined to the ash heap of history because of a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday.

By Marcia Coyle

5 minute read

March 30, 2010 | Law.com

The Supreme Court has not granted review of any Indian law cases in the current term, but you won't hear complaints from the Tribal Supreme Court Project. Most lawyers work hard to keep their lower court victories out of the Supreme Court, but sometimes, fearing hostile justices, they look to avoid the high court even when they have lost. That's the position in which the tribal project finds itself today as it painfully considers its zero-for-five record before the Roberts Court.

By Marcia Coyle

5 minute read

June 03, 2011 | Daily Business Review

All-Pro quarterbacks Tom Brady, Drew Brees and Peyton Manning will play defense in St. Louis on June 3 as they face National Football League owners in a legal challenge that could decide the fate of the 2011 season.

By Marcia Coyle

9 minute read

April 29, 2010 | National Law Journal

A major First Amendment challenge to public disclosure of the names of people signing referendum petitions appeared in trouble during arguments Wednesday in the U.S. Supreme Court. A lawyer representing opponents of a state law that expanded the rights of same-sex domestic partners encountered a blizzard of questions and hypotheticals from the bench, and it appeared he may have a difficult time getting five votes for the theory that there is a right of privacy for persons signing petitions to put issues on the ballot.

By Marcia Coyle

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August 05, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

The ethical hornetsí nest stirred up by the refusal of an acting West Virginia chief justice to recuse himself from a multimillion-dollar appeal involving his major campaign contributor has reached the U.S. Supreme Court in a petition framing todayís increasingly unsettling intersection of money and judicial elections.

By Marcia Coyle

8 minute read

June 08, 2006 | Law.com

As the final weeks of the Supreme Court term unfold, legal observers are intensely sifting the tea leaves for evidence of the Roberts Court's direction. In keeping with tradition, the final month has begun with some of the most difficult and significant cases of the term yet to be decided -- including the most important separation-of-powers question in recent years. These cases, some say, will be a true test of the hallmarks of the Court's jurisprudence under its new chief justice: consensus and restraint.

By Marcia Coyle

9 minute read

May 24, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

A bitterly divided U.S. Supreme Court, citing "needless suffering and death" in California prisons, on Monday upheld a court order requiring the state to reduce its prison population by an estimated 40,000 prisoners within two years to relieve overcrowding.

By Marcia Coyle

6 minute read

April 03, 2006 | Law.com

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling pre-empts state-law class actions brought by people who were holding securities, bringing it in line with federal law.

By Marcia Coyle

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