Tony Mauro

March 19, 2004 | Law.com

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia refused Thursday to recuse from a pending case in which duck-hunting companion Vice President Dick Cheney is a named party. In a rare memo, Scalia wrote that he is duty-bound to stay in the case, which he said involves Cheney in an official capacity only. "A rule that required members of this Court to remove themselves from cases in which the official actions of friends were at issue would be utterly disabling," said Scalia.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

June 13, 2011 | Texas Lawyer

Removing a significant hurdle for plaintiffs in securities class actions, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 6 that investors need not prove at the class certification stage that a company's deceptive conduct caused their economic losses. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. wrote the opinion for the court.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

April 09, 2008 | National Law Journal

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who makes no secret of his disdain for the news media, has agreed to appear in a segment of CBS News' "60 Minutes" on the eve of the publication date for a new book he has co-authored. In the life of the Court and Scalia's career, this is a remarkable, Nixon-goes-to-China moment. No justice has excoriated the news media like Scalia has, and it would have surprised no one if he had completed his tenure on the high court without ever consenting to a broadcast interview.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

January 05, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

The late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's Senate confirmation battles in 1971 and 1986 were more intense and political than previously known, according to a newly released FBI file that also offers dramatic new details about Rehnquist's 1981 hospitalization and dependence on a painkiller.

By Tony Mauro ALM Supreme Court Correspondent

10 minute read

September 07, 2011 | National Law Journal

There is a tie that binds many Supreme Court advocates, and it has nothing to do with Ivy League law schools, clerking for a justice or service in the solicitor general's office. It is high school and college debating, a common trait that will be celebrated Sept. 8 in a panel discussion at Georgetown University Law Center.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

July 18, 2007 | National Law Journal

Like only a handful of top Supreme Court advocates in private practice, Jenner & Block's Donald Verrilli Jr. routinely leavens his corporate work with pro bono representation for criminal defendants. He argues passionately for death row inmates, mainly on issues of ineffective assistance of counsel. Though he brings as much zeal to his paid cases, Verrilli says that criminal cases are different: "In part it's what I bring to it, but also what the justices bring. It's emotionally charged on both ends."

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

August 25, 2003 | Law.com

Memos released this month by the FBI provide new details about a man who assaulted Supreme Court Justice Byron White in 1982 in Salt Lake City -- the first assault on a Supreme Court justice in nearly a century -- and provide a closer look at contacts between White and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The files were released in response to a request made under the Freedom of Information Act after White's death. An appeal has been filed to obtain still more information.

By Tony Mauro

10 minute read

May 06, 2010 | Law.com

Corporate counsel almost unanimously agree civil litigation is too expensive, while 90 percent say it takes too long, according to a new survey conducted for a major judicial conference on civil justice that convenes next week. The conference brings together federal judges, lawyers and academics to discuss the need to reform civil rules and practices. One focus of the conference: the impact of recent Supreme Court decisions that raised requirements for what must be included in initial pleadings in civil cases.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

January 03, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

8 minute read

July 13, 2004 | Law.com

When Carter Phillips argued in the case of Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices Inc., it was something of a first for the Supreme Court. That's because the Court bestows argument time on amici only rarely -- and never before, Phillips believes, to a foreign governmental body like the Commission of the European Communities. The grant of time can be read as yet another sign, amply reinforced last term, that the justices like to hear arguments from familiar voices.

By Tony Mauro

10 minute read