Tony Mauro

April 12, 2004 | New York Law Journal

By Tony MauroAmerican Lawyer Media

9 minute read

January 12, 2005 | Law.com

In a splintered and complex decision that may throw federal criminal cases into short-term chaos, the Supreme Court on Wednesday took the bite out of the federal sentencing guidelines and may have handed back to federal judges the discretion in sentencing they lost after the guidelines were enacted.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

April 29, 2004 | Law.com

The Supreme Court seemed divided Wednesday during contentious arguments in cases testing presidential power to detain U.S. citizens in the war on terrorism without judicial review. Most of the justices sounded sympathetic to the government's stance, but several struggled to find a compromise that would grant some limited military-style due process to Yaser Esam Hamdi and Jose Padilla, who have been held without charges for more than two years.

By Tony Mauro

8 minute read

June 27, 2003 | Law.com

The much-anticipated commercial speech ruling involving Nike Inc. fizzled Thursday when the Supreme Court announced that the California Supreme Court's judgment in the case was not ripe for review and should be sent back for possible trial. The dispute over whether Nike is entitled to full First Amendment protection for its statements made in defense of its global labor practices during the late 1990s was viewed as a major test of the court's evolving commercial speech doctrine.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

May 25, 2006 | National Law Journal

The luster of Supreme Court clerk jobs seems brighter than ever, and not just because a former high court clerk has succeeded another as chief justice. But, even as law firms offer former clerks hiring bonuses of $200,000, pushing clerkships ever upward into the stratosphere of rewards to which young lawyers can aspire, one stark reality persists: Recipients are overwhelmingly white and male. It appears that only three of the 37 clerks currently serving at the Court are minorities.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

September 21, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Responding to complaints about judicial junkets and conflicts of interest, the Judicial Conference on Tuesday enacted new rules to force judges to use conflict-checking software and to promptly disclose their participation in privately sponsored seminars for which they are reimbursed.

By Tony Mauro ALM Supreme Court Correspondent

4 minute read

April 18, 2011 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recused himself today in the Court?s decision to deny review of a case in which his son John was lead counsel in the court below.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

January 16, 2007 | National Law Journal

At age 40, Paul Clement is one of the youngest solicitors general of the United States in history. As the Bush administration's top advocate at the Supreme Court, he manages much of the government's courtroom war on terror. His has been a stunningly quick rise -- and so far, unimpeded by the political grenades lobbed his way. At the end of Bush's term, Clement may be looking toward a career as a top tier member of the private Supreme Court bar, perhaps a judgeship, even a spot on the high court itself.

By Tony Mauro

20 minute read

June 29, 2006 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

8 minute read

March 28, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read