Tony Mauro

March 07, 2018 | National Law Journal

Speaking at an event marking the 50th anniversary of Marshall's ascension to the high court, now-Justice Elena Kagan and three other former Marshall clerks offered recollections of their year with the legal legend.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

March 02, 2018 | National Law Journal

The new plan mirrors a policy that collapsed in 2013 when fiercely competitive individual judges ignored the rules.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

March 02, 2018 | The Recorder

Former Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski famously flouted an earlier set of rules, once joking that he started recruiting clerks “at birth."

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

February 28, 2018 | National Law Journal

Starting on March 1, more than 1,000 employees of the federal judiciary will be subject to a new policy that prohibits them from partisan political activity, including campaign contributions.

By Tony Mauro

2 minute read

February 27, 2018 | National Law Journal

Reading from his 33-page written dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer signaled alarm with the majority's holding that asylum seekers and other arriving aliens can be detained indefinitely without bond hearings. He called the DOJ's position that the immigrants aren't technically on U.S. soil a “legal fiction.”

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

February 27, 2018 | Supreme Court Brief

The United States squares off with Microsoft today before the U.S. Supreme Court in a digital privacy case that has been built up beyond imagination as something of a tech-era Armageddon.

By Tony Mauro | Marcia Coyle

7 minute read

February 26, 2018 | National Law Journal

Listen to the exchange that made the Supreme Court's even-tempered chief justice flare up during oral argument.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

February 26, 2018 | Supreme Court Brief

“Part of being a good judge is coming in and taking precedent as it stands," Neil Gorsuch said during his 2017 confirmation hearing. Still, the court's newest justice is seen as a likely vote to overturn the court's 41-year-old precedent in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education.

By Tony Mauro | Marcia Coyle

6 minute read

February 21, 2018 | National Law Journal

The ruling put an end to a long-running effort by victims of a 1997 suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem to collect a default judgment against Iran by seizing Persian artifacts housed by the University of Chicago and Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

February 21, 2018 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday narrowed the scope of whistleblower protection under the Dodd-Frank Act, ruling unanimously that employees must first report alleged securities violations to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

By Tony Mauro | Marcia Coyle

5 minute read