Tony Mauro

February 08, 2006 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr.'s staff is still in flux, but he has already picked up two law clerks from predecessor Sandra Day O'Connor. And on Feb. 21, he'll be taking the bench for a baptism not by fire but by water. Three cases challenging the scope of the Clean Water Act have environmentalists worried about how Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts will come down on the issue of federal jurisdiction and regulation. One attorney says the cases pose "starkly different visions of federal power."

By Tony Mauro

8 minute read

April 09, 2010 | Law.com

After 34 years on the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens has announced his retirement. Stevens notified President Barack Obama in a letter to the White House Friday morning. His retirement will be effective one day after the Court rises for the summer recess this year.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

October 10, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

Weighing what has been billed as the securities fraud case of the decade, the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday seemed poised to slam the door shut on investor class actions aimed at deep-pocket third-party defendants such as accountants, lawyers, and bankers.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

July 15, 2009 | The Recorder

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor offered careful responses to some tough questions and even disagreed with the president at one point.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

January 19, 2010 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Court on Friday announced it was granting review in five new cases, including one from Washington state asking whether that state's public records disclosure law violates the privacy rights of voters who signed petitions to launch a referendum aimed at overturning a law allowing same-sex domestic partnerships. The case has parallels to the dispute that went to the Court last week over broadcast of the San Francisco trial on the Proposition 8 ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

July 25, 2005 | Law.com

The 1994 Supreme Court decision Digital Equipment Corp. v. Desktop Direct is complex, obscure and easily forgotten. But it has entered the growing body of John Roberts Jr. folklore as analysts and advocates pore over his record in advance of his confirmation hearings. Roberts, as a private attorney for Hogan & Hartson, lost the case unanimously. In a remark that neatly capsulized his humility and sense of humor, Roberts replied when asked why he lost 9-0, "Well, there are only nine justices."

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

January 11, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Indiana's strict law requiring voters to show current photo identification at the polls appears likely to survive a constitutional challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

May 04, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

September 10, 2009 | The Recorder

After Supreme Court arguments Wednesday, opponents of campaign regulations were celebrating that the bans on corporate expenditures might soon end.

By Tony Mauro

8 minute read

November 08, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

California's policy of temporarily segregating incoming and transferred prison inmates by race appeared doomed before the Supreme Court last Tuesday. During an hour of oral argument, most justices appeared skeptical of the state's argument that the 25-year-old policy was needed to cope with gang-related violence in prisons.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read