Tony Mauro

January 24, 2011 | National Law Journal

George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr has carved a role as leading criminal procedure scholar. Now he's testing his skills at the high court in a Fourth Amendment police search case.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

January 03, 2005 | National Law Journal

Life tenure for Supreme Court justices is a fixed feature of the constitutional landscape. Or is it? Some noted law professors are seeking a re-examination of that tradition by advancing a proposal that would, in effect, force justices into senior status after about 18 years. The professors hope to force the country to face what they say is a long-ignored problem of ever-lengthening and increasingly unaccountable service on the nation's highest court.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

June 19, 2007 | Law.com

The SEC and securities industry both come out ahead as the Supreme Court dismisses an antitrust class action.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

April 01, 2010 | The Recorder

The Supreme Court ruled that lawyers are obligated to warn their clients of the possibility of deportation when pleading guilty in criminal cases.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

December 12, 2006 | The Recorder

U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared divided in a case involving program in Seattle that uses race in assigning students to popular high schools. Civil rights advocates were not pleased with the direction oral arguments were taking.

By Tony Mauro

10 minute read

November 09, 2004 | The Recorder

The Supreme Court on Monday sent conflicting signals on the question of voting rights for convicted felons, but advocates say the high court may yet decide the issue in a future case. Without comment, the Supreme Court declined to review Locke v. Farrakhan, letting stand a ruling by the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that allowed felons to challenge Washington state's felon disenfranchisement law as a violation of the Voting Rights Act.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

August 21, 2006 | The Recorder

Conference of state justices fears issue-based political campaigns sap public confidence in the judiciary.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

March 28, 2005 | National Law Journal

Scheduled for argument at the Supreme Court on Tuesday are the widely-watched Grokster case, which asks whether peer-to-peer downloading of songs and movies violates copyright protections, and a second case that may determine which regulatory regime should govern cable Internet services. The cases have attracted top intellectual property and telecommunications lawyers -- all but one a former high court law clerk -- who are eager to participate in what could be landmarks of the digital age.

By Tony Mauro

11 minute read

March 30, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

December 05, 2005 | Law.com

In the same week that a big chunk of marble fell from the front facade of the Supreme Court, a panel of heavyweight thinkers convened to contemplate what would happen if all nine justices were to be killed at once. Speakers had Sept. 11 and Tom Clancy-type scenarios in mind, not architectural malfunctions. But whatever the cause, the questions are substantial, and the solutions elusive. For the presidency, there's a clear line of succession. But for the Court, it's the nine robed ones or no one.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read