Tony Mauro

October 10, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in what may be its top environmental and employment discrimination cases of the term, and from the tenor of the debates, the verdict seems to be: Whales, dolphins and employers will lose.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

June 21, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court handed a significant victory to Wal-Mart in the company's decade-long effort to thwart a discrimination class action suit. The ruling is likely to hobble other large employment class actions.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

June 09, 2000 | Law.com

When the Supreme Court hands down its decision on federal aid to parochial schools, don't be surprised if Justice Clarence Thomas writes the decision. And when the court releases Hill v. Colorado, chances are Justice John Paul Stevens will write the majority opinion. There's no leak inside the marble walls. The predictions are the hunches of an avid group of Supreme Court prognosticators.

By Tony Mauro

11 minute read

April 20, 2006 | National Law Journal

The insanity defense was the focus of debate before the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a case that could further limit its use. Justices seemed troubled by the case, in which Eric Clark was convicted of first-degree murder for killing an Arizona police officer, even though, his lawyer said, Clark thought he was shooting at an alien being. But several justices seemed to accept the argument by Arizona and the Bush administration that states have broad discretion to limit or eliminate the defense altogether.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

July 21, 2008 | Law.com

For 30 years, a passage in Flood v. Kuhn -- the late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun's baseball antitrust ruling and his second-most famous decision -- has been clouded by suggestions of racial insensitivity by Blackmun. In 1979, a best-selling book on the Court asserted that Blackmun's list of baseball heroes in that decision initially included no black players. Now, a law professor believes he has debunked that story by showing that Blackmun's list included black players from the very outset.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

October 04, 2006 | Law.com

During oral arguments Tuesday in an immigrants' rights case, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made a reference to one of the parties, a Mexican man who has been deported, as someone unlikely to keep from drinking tequila on the chance he could return to the U.S. The comment raised eyebrows in the audience and offended some on the grounds that it perpetuates stereotypes about Mexicans. Carlos Ortiz, past president of the Hispanic National Bar Association, called the remark "terrible" and "insensitive."

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

November 01, 2005 | Law.com

As the new term begins, a look at the cases that are likely to have the most impact on big business.

By Tony Mauro

12 minute read

November 10, 2003 | Law.com

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

January 09, 2007 | National Law Journal

In his annual report on the judiciary issued Jan. 1, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said the continued failure of Congress to raise judicial salaries had reached the level of a "constitutional crisis." The job of selling Congress on the urgency of pay raises will fall in part to James Duff, the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. In his first press interview since starting the job last July, Duff spoke with Supreme Court correspondent Tony Mauro about challenges facing the judiciary.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

December 16, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

Acting at its final session of 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday set the stage for major tests next year of the limits of executive branch powers.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read