Tony Mauro

August 28, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

May 12, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas heads to his home state of Georgia next week to help dedicate a new courthouse, but not everyone there is eager to see him.

By Tony Mauro

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July 13, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Criticism of capital punishment is mounting. States are executing fewer death row inmates. Two new Republican appointees have joined the Supreme Court. But other justices are palpably uncomfortable with the death penalty.

By Tony Mauro ALM

8 minute read

June 23, 2006 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday to give broad protection under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to employees who suffer retaliation for complaining about discrimination. The decision ends disarray among lower courts on the standard required to assess retaliation claims, but employment lawyers say it will trigger a new wave of litigation to determine what kind of actions constitute illegal retaliation. Said one law firm partner, "This decision is huge -- hugely bad for me as a defense lawyer."

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

December 06, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

Call it coincidence, but in the same week that a big chunk of marble fell from the front facade of the U.S. Supreme Court, a heavyweight panel of thinkers convened in Washington, D.C., to contemplate what would happen if all nine justices of the Supreme Court were to be killed at once.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

January 08, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

Taking on a high-stakes patent dispute, the Supreme Court yesterday appeared to be searching for a way to soften the impact of a lower court ruling that critics say has sharply limited protection for more than 1 million patents.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

February 28, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

The plight of Connecticut homeowners whose homes may be condemned to make way for commercial development pulled at the heartstrings of Supreme Court justices.

By Tony Mauro

8 minute read

May 05, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun would be very happy. The Supreme Court's hoary and inexplicable policy against note-taking by the public in the court chamber -- which Blackmun first complained about in 1988 -- has been overturned.

By Tony Mauro

10 minute read

February 01, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

It was the furtive headshake that launched a thousand commentaries.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

November 18, 2009 | Law.com

Continuing to reverberate around Supreme Court circles is a comment made by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. during oral argument last month in a case involving the Court's so-called "original jurisdiction." Roberts bluntly characterized the special masters appointed by the Court in such cases as "more akin to a law clerk than a district judge." It came across to some in the field as a demeaning comparison, but some former special masters refused to talk about the comment, not wanting to cross the chief justice.

By Tony Mauro

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