Tony Mauro

March 30, 2005 | Legaltech News

The Supreme Court appeared wary Tuesday of punishing peer-to-peer downloading services like Grokster for copyright violation. The Court was clearly divided, with several justices expressing frustration over the dearth of factual findings about the magnitude of infringement. Several justices voiced a concern that shutting down downloading might keep future innovators from developing a market for noninfringing uses -- a market that might not emerge until after the illegal uses establish the software's brand.

By Tony Mauro

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April 07, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

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September 08, 2006 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Court has moved closer toward re-examining one of the biggest and hoariest precedents in antitrust law, known to law students everywhere as the Dr. Miles rule. Under that rule, established in a 1911 case, minimum prices manufacturers set on what dealers can charge customers are deemed as illegal per se under the Sherman Act. The rule has come under increasing attack in recent years, and the Court has just issued a stay of judgment in a case that squarely challenges it.

By Tony Mauro

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June 28, 2005 | The Recorder

Giving both sides in the rancorous church-state debate something to applaud and attack, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld one Ten Commandments display in Texas and struck down two others in Kentucky on First Amendment grounds.

By Tony Mauro

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March 30, 2005 | Law.com

In a high-stakes dispute over the regulation of Internet access, the Supreme Court struggled Tuesday over how much deference it should give to a 2002 Federal Communications Commission decision freeing cable modem providers from the rules that govern telephone companies. The outcome of National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services could affect the cable industry's share of broadband Internet access and whether cable will have to offer competitors' Internet services.

By Tony Mauro

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September 14, 2005 | National Law Journal

Chief justice nominee John Roberts moved into the second -- and possibly final -- day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Throughout testimony, Roberts continued to do little more than outline in the broadest terms his view of how he would adjudicate certain issues. In some of the most heated testimony of the morning, Sen. Joseph Biden bored into Roberts in an effort to elicit his views. "We're rolling the dice with you, Judge," Biden said.

By T.R. Goldman and Tony Mauro

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March 21, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's son Gregory is a managing director of Credit Suisse, the investment banking firm that is a party in a major antitrust case set for argument before his father's court March 27.

By Tony Mauro ALM Supreme Court Correspondent

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June 09, 2011 | Law.com

Backed by former judges, prosecutors and diplomats from across the U.S., lawyers are asking Texas officials to delay the July 7 execution of Humberto Leal Garcia. Arrested in 1994 on suspicion of murder, Leal is a Mexican national who was never told he had a right under an international treaty to contact the Mexican consulate for legal assistance.

By Tony Mauro

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October 27, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

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November 05, 2008 | The Recorder

No consensus among the justices was in evidence in arguments to decide whether the FCC's crackdown on "fleeting expletives" should continue.

By Tony Mauro

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