Tony Mauro

December 08, 2004 | Law.com

The Supreme Court appeared hostile Tuesday toward state barriers that impede interstate wine sales, likely foreshadowing a win for small wineries in their long battle against the system that controls alcoholic beverage sales nationwide. The Court was confronted with a clash between two seemingly irreconcilable constitutional doctrines: the so-called dormant commerce clause, which bars state trade barriers, and the Prohibition-ending 21st Amendment, which gave states power to regulate alcohol.

By Tony Mauro

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November 27, 2009 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

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April 01, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

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April 26, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By David Ingram and Tony Mauro

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August 24, 2009 | Law.com

Poignant letters from Chief Justice William Rehnquist's colleagues, written after his 2004 announcement that he was suffering from thyroid cancer, are among the latest Rehnquist papers to be released by the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University. The papers paint a picture of a Supreme Court under distress, even adrift, in the absence of his leadership after 18 years as chief justice. The archived materials also reflect a down-home style that won Rehnquist admirers across the political spectrum.

By Tony Mauro

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November 29, 2004 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Court on Monday appeared ready to accept Bush administration arguments that California's medical marijuana law interferes too much with federal efforts to combat illicit drugs. In spite of the conservative majority's interest in strengthening state powers, most justices seemed skeptical of the argument that California could defy the federal Controlled Substances Act by allowing purely in-state, noncommercial distribution of marijuana for medical use.

By Tony Mauro

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April 16, 2007 | Law.com

By Tony Mauro

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March 14, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

The next stage of retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's public life began to take shape this week: a combination of speaking out, receiving accolades, and even, she hinted, sitting as a judge on lower federal courts.

By Tony Mauro

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June 29, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

In a dramatic ending before it recessed for the summer, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled, 5-4, that the city of New Haven, Conn., violated the civil rights of white and Hispanic firefighters when it tossed out the results of a promotion exam after no African-Americans had passed it.

By Tony Mauro

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April 27, 2005 | National Law Journal

By a 7-2 vote, pesticide manufacturers lost their Supreme Court bid to avoid facing products liability lawsuits in state courts nationwide. Reversing the 5th Circuit, the Court said most state tort actions are not prohibited by federal law.

By Tony Mauro

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