Tony Mauro

June 07, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

Supporters of the use of marijuana for medical purposes will swiftly take their campaign to Congress in the wake of yesterday's Supreme Court decision that federal anti-drug laws can be enforced against users of medical marijuana in California and nine other states.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

November 02, 2004 | Law.com

If a legal dispute over today's presidential election rushes toward the U.S. Supreme Court, there's an important precedent that could be cited to keep the justices out of the fray: a newly discovered in-chambers opinion that might have caused Bush v. Gore to turn out quite differently. The 1912 case of Marks v. Davis stands for the premise that the high court should butt out of election disputes until state courts finish their work.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

October 21, 2002 | National Law Journal

Effort to restore felons' right to carry weapons gets cool reception at high court. The Court also dismisses an attempt to limit class actions.

By Tony Mauro

9 minute read

September 01, 2006 | National Law Journal

On a Supreme Court dominated by seeming millionaires, financial disclosure forms reveal the only woman justice and the only bachelor appear to be the wealthiest of its nine members.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

August 24, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Last November, the first segment of the extensive collection of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist's papers became public at the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University.

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read

March 22, 2004 | Law.com

When California atheist Michael Newdow rises on March 24 to tell the U.S. Supreme Court that the words "under God" don't belong in the pledge of allegiance recited in public schools, he truly will stand alone.

By Tony Mauro

11 minute read

August 26, 2004 | New York Law Journal

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June 02, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

In a rare win for the federal side of the Supreme Court's debate over federalism, the justices on Tuesday ruled 6-3 that Congress acted properly in exposing states to lawsuits over violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

November 18, 2009 | National Law Journal

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

3 minute read

February 08, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

When Clint Bolick asked the U.S. Supreme Court last September to grant him time to argue in favor of school vouchers, he had little reason to expect the request to be granted. The Supreme Court rarely steps into rifts among counsel. Bolick, the longtime vice president of the Institute for Justice, was peeved that the main plaintiff, the state of Ohio, was sending an inexperienced assistant attorney general to argue on Feb. 20 in what could be the most important church-state case in decades. Bolick has work

By TONY MAURO

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