Tony Mauro

May 01, 2004 | Law.com

S. Supreme Court watchers gained access to a cornucopia of inside information when the Library of Congress released the exhaustively detailed papers of Justice Harry Blackmun in March. The justice, who died in 1999, directed that his papers be made public on the fifth anniversary of his death.

By Tony Mauro

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January 10, 2007 | New York Law Journal

By Tony MauroLegal Times

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October 22, 2002 | Law.com

By Tony Mauro

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June 13, 2006 | National Law Journal

In a pair of opinions written by Justice Anthony Kennedy and highlighting his pivotal role on the new Roberts Court, the high court on Monday kept alive the appeals of death row inmates in two states. Although one of the decisions was not a ruling for or against lethal injections, it may hasten the day when the Supreme Court will consider claims that the drug combination used in the injections can cause excruciating pain, violating the Eighth Amendment bar against "cruel and unusual punishments."

By Tony Mauro

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January 08, 2002 | New York Law Journal

THE U.S. Supreme Court said yesterday that a Kentucky woman with carpal tunnel syndrome could not be categorized as a disabled worker under the Americans With Disabilities Act because she is still able to care for herself off the job.

By Tony Mauro

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October 07, 2009 | The Recorder

Justices asked about a variety of scenarios, including bullfighting videos and a "Human Sacrifice Channel," in a First Amendment case over depictions of animal cruelty.

By Tony Mauro

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April 19, 2010 | National Law Journal

Solicitor General Elena Kagan's favored position at or near the top of the list of possible replacements for Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has also made her an easy target, especially for liberals who warn she is too conservative to follow in Stevens' progressive footsteps. Scrutiny of her brief record as solicitor general is intensifying, and advocates for human rights and other liberal causes who are upset at the Obama administration for continuing Bush-era policies may take their frustration out on Kagan.

By Tony Mauro

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September 17, 2007 | Law.com

When Theodore Olson returned to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in 2004 after three years as solicitor general, he added crisis management to his list of specialties at the firm. If President Bush nominates Olson to be attorney general in the wake of Alberto Gonzales' resignation, the 67-year-old lawyer may need his own crisis management team to help with another kind of disaster: the Senate Judiciary Committee. Olson's history as a partisan advocate for Republican causes makes him a tough sell.

By Tony Mauro

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February 26, 2004 | Law.com

Wednesday's lopsided 7-2 Supreme Court ruling allowing states to deny scholarship money to students majoring in theology slowed the Court's trend toward acceptance of public support for religious practices and was seen as a setback to the school voucher movement. The ruling upheld a Washington state program that gives college scholarship money to needy high school students, so long as they do not put the money toward a theology degree.

By Tony Mauro

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January 09, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Even his closest friends say Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito Jr. is a shyer, blander version of Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. - and Roberts himself was described as shy and bland when he was nominated to the high court. Be that as it may, Alito's Senate confirmation hearings, which begin this week, will be anything but bland or dull.

By Tony Mauro

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