Tony Mauro

June 21, 2002 | New York Law Journal

WASHINGTON, D.C. Top officials of the federal judiciary are up in arms over an American Bar Association inquiry into the controversy over whether judges should be barred from attending seminars sponsored by interest groups.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

March 19, 2008 | The Recorder

Based on extended oral arguments on Tuesday, a majority of the Supreme Court appears poised to declare that the Second Amendment protects some kind of individual right to bear arms.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

January 15, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Taking on a high-stakes patent dispute, the Supreme Court last week appeared to be searching for a way to soften the impact of a lower court ruling that critics say has sharply limited protection for more than one million patents.

By TONY MAURO Law Tribune Washington Bureau

3 minute read

December 27, 2005 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's resignation letter in July launched a historic period of change for the Court, a roller coaster ride that has not yet stopped. As the year ends with O'Connor still on the bench, she's in the odd position of having her legacy praised and pilloried in the past tense as if she were already gone. And just as she has been at the center of the Court's jurisprudence for 24 years, she remains at the fulcrum of the debate over the shape the Court should take in the future.

By Tony Mauro

9 minute read

December 30, 2003 | Law.com

The year 2003 is filled with illustrations that the Supreme Court is beginning to get more comfortable with greater transparency and openness. And all the developments reflect small steps that might have been rejected or not even considered only a decade ago. It didn't all start this year, of course, and the Court's seeming willingness to concede that it lives in a wider world has not reached full blossom. But the evolutionary process is under way.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

August 02, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

With remarkable speed and an unusually strong push from the solicitor general's office, the sentencing mess wrought by the Supreme Court's Blakely v. Washington decision June 24 has returned to the high court's doorstep.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

April 26, 2004 | Law.com

Fifty years ago last month, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas was making national headlines, but not for any decision he had written. Instead, he was leading conservationists and journalists on a well-publicized nine-day, 184.5-mile trek along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal from Cumberland, Md., to Washington, D.C. The hike was aimed at convincing editors of The Washington Post as well as government officials that the canal should remain pristine and not be paved over for a highway.

By Tony Mauro

13 minute read

November 30, 2009 | National Law Journal

U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed reluctant Monday to give the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. a "statute of limitations" way out of defending against a securities fraud class action involving Vioxx.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

May 06, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

Whether or not the current spate of ADA cases is due to congressional imprecision in drafting, the Court`s own decisions are not producing bright-line rules either, leaving both sides discontented and uncertain about what to do next.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

June 01, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

In April the third in a series of U.S. Supreme Court bobble-head dolls was delivered to its creators at The Green Bag, the unorthodox law review published at George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read