Tony Mauro

January 25, 2010 | Law.com

The crucial moment in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case -- decided last week in a landmark 5-4 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court -- may have come in November 2008, when Citizens United decided to hire Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner Theodore Olson to argue the case at the Court. By replacing its original counsel with Olson, the group aggressively ramped up the constitutional issues in the case, making it much more likely the high court would make history in its ruling.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

September 11, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. Supreme Court has moved closer toward re-examining one of the biggest and hoariest precedents in antitrust law, known to law students everywhere as the Dr. Miles rule.

By Tony Mauro ALM

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October 07, 2008 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

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September 08, 2009 | Law.com

A soon-to-be-published memoir by a friend of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist offers a revealing personal glimpse of the justice's later years, including his handling of the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999 and the Bush v. Gore case of 2000. Herman Obermayer's book also offers the first public account of Rehnquist's battle with thyroid cancer and suggests that, until late July 2005, the justice fervently believed he would survive and be able to remain on the Court.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

September 29, 2000 | Law.com

Among the strong contenders for a grant of certiorari at the Supreme Court's Oct. 6 conference are cases involving campaign finance, attorneys fees, payroll taxes and deportation orders for illegal aliens who committed crimes.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

November 25, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

The federal scheme for the drug testing of transportation employees does not pre-empt a state common-law cause of action brought for a false positive drug test, an Eastern District of New York judge has ruled.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

July 22, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Julie Hirschfield Davis and Tony Mauro

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November 03, 2003 | The Recorder

Five years after the lack of diversity among the Supreme Court's law clerks became an issue, diversity seems to have taken hold and become more commonplace in their ranks -- and not just racial and gender diversity. A survey of this term's 35 law clerks reveals that more and more of the clerks are from non-Ivy League schools, and, like last year, a growing number have not taken the traditional path to the court -- arriving directly from an appeals court clerkship.

By Tony Mauro

11 minute read

October 05, 2009 | Law.com

Six Supreme Court justices, two Cabinet members and Vice President Joe Biden were on hand along with dozens of other judges and public officials Sunday at the traditional Roman Catholic Red Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., the unofficial start to the Supreme Court's fall season. The cardinal giving the sermon at the Mass called on lawyers to give "radical support" to the unborn. With the arrival of new Justice Sonia Sotomayor, two-thirds of the Court's nine justices are Catholic.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

June 22, 2007 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for corporate defendants to seek and win dismissal of lawsuits filed by investors alleging stock fraud or market manipulation. By an 8-1 majority, the Court raised the threshold that plaintiffs must cross in initial pleadings to show that defendants had the intention to deceive or defraud. The ruling on a crucial threshold question in securities litigation was the second win this week for defendants seeking to limit class action litigation brought by investors.

By Tony Mauro

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