Tony Mauro

May 12, 2009 | National Law Journal

The legacy of retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter can be discovered not only in his 140 majority opinions over 18 years, but at law schools, law firms and public service workplaces across the nation, where his 72 former law clerks, a "notoriously loyal tribe" in the words of one, have fanned out after their year with the justice. Souter's clerks have strongly protective instincts toward him and generally keep the media at bay with a consistency exceeding even that of other justices' former clerks.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

April 03, 2007 | Law.com

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday declined to hear the next wave of appeals from Guant�namo detainees seeking to challenge their detention in federal court.

By Jason McLure and Tony Mauro

4 minute read

September 30, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Supreme Court term that begins on Oct. 7 may be best remembered for how it ends. By next June, through an unusual confluence of percolating appeals, the Court may make its mark on gay rights, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, and even on post-Sept. 11 issues of national security and individual liberty.

By Tony Mauro

8 minute read

September 29, 2004 | The Recorder

More than 90 prominent lawyers and former Supreme Court law clerks including former Attorneys General Richard Thornburgh and William Barr have joined in a statement sharply criticizing the law clerks who gave behind-the-scenes details about the 2000 case Bush v. Gore to Vanity Fair magazine.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

January 19, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

More than two years after deepening its finance specialty through a merger, the San Francisco office of Chapman & Cutler seems to have no trouble landing new clients or bringing in more work from existing ones. Winning over first-year associates and lateral partners, however, has been anything but easy.

By Tony Mauro ALM

6 minute read

December 01, 2008 | National Law Journal

Encouraged by President-elect Barack Obama's talk of inclusiveness, and emboldened by the importance of the Hispanic vote to Obama's victory, Hispanic groups are cautiously hopeful that finally the time has come for a Supreme Court justice with a Latino background. Almost every list of possible Obama nominees to the high court includes Hispanic candidates. "What more unifying appointment could there be than a Hispanic justice?" asks Carlos Ortiz, former president of the Hispanic National Bar Association.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

December 28, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

It began at the midpoint of 2005. Early on the morning of July 1, a sealed envelope was hand-delivered from the U.S. Supreme Court to the White House, and inside it was a resignation letter, not, as had been expected, from the ailing chief justice, William Rehnquist, but rather from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

By Tony Mauro

8 minute read

November 10, 2003 | The Recorder

Ever since he first decided to challenge the wording of the Pledge of Allegiance, Michael Newdow says, he has tried without success to gain support from major civil liberties organizations. The ACLU said, 'Drop the case,'" Newdow asserts, referring to the American Civil Liberties Union, which he first contacted during his unsuccessful Florida litigation in 1999.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

May 27, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

Ordinarily, the announcement by a law professor that he is not completing the second volume of the third edition of his book would not even merit a yawn.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

October 01, 2007 | National Law Journal

After bulking up the Supreme Court's docket last week with 17 additional cases, the justices head into their new term today facing a full array of hot button issues that will continue to measure just how far to the right the Roberts Court is heading on the eve of a presidential election. And at least one keen Court-watcher predicts that simply because of the different lineup of cases this term, by next June it will be conservatives, not liberals, who will be angry at the Supreme Court.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read