Tony Mauro

July 25, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Two public interest legal groups mounted broad-based campaigns in the term just ended to bring seemingly winning issues before a conservative U.S. Supreme Court - property rights, and the Ten Commandments. Both lost, 5-4. In both cases, a single justice they had hoped would vote with them defected, turned off by the facts of their cases.

By Tony Mauro

9 minute read

March 22, 2006 | The Recorder

The Supreme Court justices expressed concern that ruling a certain way in a patent case could establish "monopolies in this country beyond belief" over naturally occurring phenomena.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

April 28, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

The U.S. Supreme Court last Wednesday appeared ready to protect Nike Inc. from being sued by private individuals who claim the company's defense of its global labor practices amount to false advertising.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

October 03, 2005 | Law.com

Today, John Roberts Jr., the youngest chief justice in more than two centuries, steps into the fishbowl and takes on the duties of running the Supreme Court and the judicial branch without a moment of apprenticeship. He will be presiding over a docket full of complex cases, some of which could reveal what Senate Democrats could not pry out of Roberts during his confirmation hearings: how much his heart figures into his jurisprudence.

By Tony Mauro

9 minute read

September 15, 2005 | National Law Journal

John Roberts Jr. moved into the second day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, with Democrats still complaining that the likely future chief justice remains too much of a cipher. "I do think I've been more expansive than most nominees, and those justices were confirmed," Roberts said. The committee will wrap up questioning of Roberts this morning, then proceed directly to six panels of witnesses, who will speak for and against the nominee.

By T.R. Goldman and Tony Mauro

6 minute read

October 28, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

8 minute read

October 06, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

New Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's learning curve doesn't end at mastering the court's cases docketed for argument. A lesser-known aspect of a justice's work is the emergency appeals and other matters that will come to her from the two judicial circuits she has been assigned to handle.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

February 05, 2010 | National Law Journal

One of the side benefits of the Supreme Court's long winter recess is that justices head out of Washington for speaking engagements, and Justice Clarence Thomas in particular gets to prove yet again that he is incapable of giving a dull speech. In appearances at two Florida law schools this week, Thomas fielded questions from students, quoted the likes of Garth Brooks and Clint Eastwood, revealed his movie preferences and said he had "zero tolerance" for mistakes or tardiness from his law clerks.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

September 20, 2006 | Law.com

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. Separately, a committee headed by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer issued a report recommending modest changes in how federal courts handle ethical complaints that members of the public file against judges.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

September 12, 2011 | National Law Journal

The Institute for Justice is celebrating 20 years of serious achievements in legal arenas ranging from school choice to free speech, eminent domain to the revival of the Constitution's "privileges and immunities" clause.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read