Tony Mauro

September 12, 2008 | Legaltech News

No news is not good news for courts. A gathering of judges and journalists agreed that traditional news coverage of the courts is declining rapidly as print and broadcast media retool; and new media such as blogs and twitters hold as much promise as danger in picking up the slack.

By Tony Mauro

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August 07, 2009 | The Recorder

The first Hispanic justice will begin work as early as next week after a swearing-in at the Supreme Court on Saturday.

By Tony Mauro

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November 02, 2004 | Law.com

Nine days after surgery for thyroid cancer, ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist was not on the bench when the Supreme Court convened Monday, one of several signs that his illness is more serious than first indicated. A statement from Rehnquist noted that he was undergoing radiation and chemotherapy on an outpatient basis. Justice John Paul Stevens said the chief justice "has reserved the right to participate" in cases the Court hears in his absence.

By Tony Mauro

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October 12, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a sometimes chaotic oral argument Wednesday that exceeded the usual time limits, the U.S. Supreme Court struggled to sort out a death penalty case that pits the state of Texas against its former governor, President George W. Bush, in a battle over states' rights and the scope of international treaties.

By Tony Mauro ALM Supreme Court Correspondent

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June 28, 2005 | Law.com

A bitterly divided Supreme Court on Monday upheld one Ten Commandments display in Texas and struck down two others in Kentucky on First Amendment grounds, giving both sides in the rancorous church-state debate something to applaud and attack. The Ten Commandments rulings, even though mixed, seemed likely to increase the stakes for the fight over a new Supreme Court nominee, as the religious right has made the Court's church-state rulings a battle cry.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

May 10, 2010 | National Law Journal

No cameras, no audio and now, no main entry to the high court. Is the Court growing more insular under Roberts?

By Tony Mauro

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June 07, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

Chief Justice William Rehnquist was offering an olive branch to Congress when he created a committee to evaluate the federal judiciary's discipline system. But it may have come too late.

By Tony Mauro

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September 15, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

John Roberts Jr. moved into the second - and possibly final - day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, with Democrats still complaining that the likely future chief justice remains too much of a cipher, and with GOP committee members stressing that Roberts has answered more questions than any other nominee.

By T.R. Goldman and Tony Mauro

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May 22, 2000 | Law.com

None of the Supreme Court's decisions Monday had the anti-Congress tone of last week's Morrison ruling. But the justices continued to police the boundary between federal and state -- strengthening the federal reach in one case, but limiting federal laws in two others. The justices also struck down a provision of the federal Telecommunications Act requiring cable operators to scramble sexually explicit programming.

By Tony Mauro

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June 06, 2006 | Law.com

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to re-enter the contentious debate over affirmative action. Three years after the Court upheld race-conscious admissions policies in higher education in the Grutter v. Bollinger decision, two new cases will test that precedent in the setting of public elementary and high schools. Adding uncertainty is Justice Samuel Alito Jr.'s replacement of Sandra Day O'Connor, who was a crucial vote in favor of affirmative action and the author of the Grutter ruling.

By Tony Mauro

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