Marcia Coyle

March 12, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

Key Discrimination Arguments

By Marcia Coyle

9 minute read

March 05, 2008 | National Law Journal

Washington's Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr has agreed to represent the United Church of Christ on a pro bono basis in an Internal Revenue service investigation of the church's tax-exempt status. The IRS initiated the tax inquiry on Feb. 20 in response to a speech given by U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., a member of the church, at the UCC's national General Synod last June. Former Solicitor General and WilmerHale partner Seth P. Waxman will lead the firm's team of attorneys.

By Marcia Coyle

3 minute read

March 23, 2005 | Law.com

The most important copyright challenge in decades will unfold in the U.S. Supreme Court next week with potentially enormous damages and the future of Internet innovation at stake. Twenty-one years ago, the high court held that the maker, distributor and sellers of the Betamax videocassette recorder were not liable if users infringed copyrights. The justices next week face a similar question, but the file sharing technology in MGM Studios v. Grokster is light years ahead of the videotape recorder.

By Marcia Coyle

9 minute read

June 08, 2006 | National Law Journal

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

June 10, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Marcia Coyle

5 minute read

October 14, 2009 | Daily Business Review

An attorney fee case - the first of two important fee challenges to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court this term - has created an unusual alliance among a host of public interest legal organizations spanning the political spectrum.

By Marcia Coyle

4 minute read

September 29, 2008 | Law.com

The Roberts Court's affinity for issues close to the heart of the nation's business community will continue into the upcoming Supreme Court term as the justices take on major questions concerning federal pre-emption of state tort suits, environmental regulation, workplace discrimination, arbitration, pensions and antitrust. Pre-emption. which dominated the business docket last term, is once again "the issue keyed up front and center for business in the new term," said one high court litigator.

By Marcia Coyle

7 minute read

February 13, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

For years, businesses large and small viewed as unfair but unchangeable their potential liability for the entire cost of a Superfund site cleanup, no matter how tenuous their connection to the site. But an oil company and two railroads, on the hook for a $40 million cleanup, will urge the U.S. Supreme Court this month to limit how most courts and the federal government approach liability for cleaning the nation's worst hazardous waste sites.

By Marcia Coyle

10 minute read

September 14, 2009 | Law.com

An unusual twist in the multibillion-dollar battle between the federal government and utility companies over spent nuclear fuel threatens to send more than 50 breach-of-contract lawsuits back to square one after a decade of litigation. This week, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will hear arguments on whether the government, for the first time, can argue "unavoidable delay" to excuse its failure to pick up and dispose of the industry's nuclear waste.

By Marcia Coyle

8 minute read

July 17, 2003 | Law.com

Observers call the U.S. Supreme Court's Lawrence v. Texas decision a sweeping tool that will be used to fight discrimination in places ranging from courts to private businesses. Among the predicted effects: that within the next two years the high court will face the issue of gay marriage. In the landmark Lawrence case, the high court struck down a Texas law prohibiting intimate sexual conduct between people of the same sex.

By Marcia Coyle

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