Tony Mauro

May 25, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

The U.S. Supreme Court has not ruled in a libel case in more than a decade. But on May 27, the court is expected to discuss whether it is time to re-examine its libel doctrines and strengthen protections for the media.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

July 08, 2008 | National Law Journal

The footnote was easy to miss. It began on page 27 of the landmark Supreme Court opinion that struck down a $2.5 billion punitive damage award in the Exxon Valdez case, and it ended on the next page. But Justice David Souter's footnote 17 has reverberated around law schools, leading one lawyer involved in the case to predict that "it is going to become the great mystery footnote of the decade."

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

June 25, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

Solicitor General Theodore Olson confirmed late yesterday he is leaving his post as the government's top appellate lawyer in July.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

July 17, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

The numbers tend to support the growing perception that Roberts can be a sharp, even acerbic questioner.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

March 02, 2005 | Law.com

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that executing juvenile offenders is not constitutional, a dramatic reversal of precedent that laid bare angry divisions among justices. Immediately after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced the long-awaited ruling in Roper v. Simmons, Justice Antonin Scalia read from one of the most vituperative dissents in years. Scalia also upbraided the majority for selectively invoking an international consensus against executing juveniles while ignoring it in other contexts.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

January 11, 2007 | The Recorder

Justices hear a Washington teachers union case on how fees for nonmembers are collected.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

December 15, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

In the aftermath of the Dec. 10 U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding most of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, opponents of the law are still stunned, wondering what happened to the strong First Amendment-protective court they were counting on.

By Tony Mauro

8 minute read

October 08, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

May 23, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

After years of using a complex accounting system that sloshed together revenues and expenses between the New Jersey State Bar Association and its sister State Bar Foundation, the bar has taken a step toward de-coupling the organizations for financial reporting purposes.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

May 26, 2004 | Law.com

Fittingly, one of Alan Morrison's last acts for the Public Citizen Litigation Group was asking Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to recuse himself in the Cheney case due to Scalia's hunting trip with the veep. The event captured a key truth about Morrison, who has long argued before the Court and will soon teach at Stanford: He's fearless both about challenging powerful interests and about befriending, or at least being cordial to, their allies and icons.

By Tony Mauro

11 minute read