Tony Mauro

June 24, 2005 | National Law Journal

In a stinging defeat for the property rights movement, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the U.S. Constitution does not prevent government agencies from taking private property by eminent domain and turning it over for another private use. The Court also announced that Monday will be the final day before its summer recess. Highly anticipated decisions involving Ten Commandments displays and Internet file-sharing can be expected Monday, and the possibility of a retirement announcement also looms.

By Tony Mauro

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December 08, 2004 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

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December 05, 2007 | National Law Journal

Whatever voters think of Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani now, to the late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, he was a 5 out of 10. Blackmun made his private assessment of Giuliani in 1983 when the then-associate attorney general argued a minor case on the bank larceny law. But Giuliani shouldn't feel too bad about his grade. A political scientist who has studied the notes Blackmun took during oral arguments over his 24 years on the Court says the justice never gave a 9 or 10 ranking.

By Tony Mauro

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March 31, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

In a 5-4 decision on March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court breathed new life into Texas' effort to provide legal services to the poor by upholding Washington state's Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts program.

By Tony Mauro and Mary Alice Robbins

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January 07, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

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By Tony Mauro

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March 13, 2006 | National Law Journal

The next stage of retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's public life began taking shape last week: a combination of speaking out, receiving accolades and even, she hinted, sitting as a judge again. In a talk Thursday at Georgetown University Law Center, she demurred when it was suggested she could be more candid now that she's no longer a justice: "I've retired, but I'm still a federal judge." Retired justices can sit by designation on any federal court, but O'Connor did not indicate where she hopes to sit.

By Tony Mauro

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March 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

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June 07, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

For a few brief hours on June 5, the U.S. Supreme Court retirement rumor mill, idle since last summer, lurched into full-tilt production. The Arizona Republic Web site reported that speculation was increasing on Capitol Hill that Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist planned to retire as early as this summer. The report had special significance because of the newspaper`s contacts in the Arizona congressional delegation as well as its familiarity with Supreme Court justices who have called Arizona home: Re

By TONY MAURO

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May 14, 2007 | National Law Journal

A long tradition of father-daughter pairings among Supreme Court law clerks is about to be carried on by a Northwestern University law school graduate named Jessica Phillips.

By Tony Mauro

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April 10, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

By Tony Mauro

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