Tony Mauro

March 30, 2005 | Law.com

The Supreme Court appeared wary Tuesday of punishing peer-to-peer downloading services like Grokster for copyright violation, in spite of arguments by a lawyer for the recording and movie industries that they amount to "a gigantic infringement machine." An hour of spirited oral arguments in the case MGM Studios Inc. v. Grokster Ltd. played out before a courtroom packed with intellectual property lawyers and entertainment industry representatives.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

June 05, 2000 | Law.com

The Supreme Court ruled that a Washington state law allowing visitation rights for grandparents and other third parties violated the due process rights of a mother to raise her children as she saw fit. In a rare foray into family law, the Court was sharply divided in the much anticipated case. The 6-3 decision produced six separate writings by justices, sapping some of the force of the decision.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

August 04, 2010 | National Law Journal

Golf has been a favorite pastime of several justices over the years. In a new article, a George Mason law professor chronicles the Court's history on the links.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

November 30, 2010 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

March 29, 2006 | Law.com

The Bush administration ran into skepticism from the Supreme Court on Tuesday as justices heard debate, in unusual 90-minute arguments, over a landmark war powers dispute testing the legal rights of enemy combatants held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Justices seemed especially concerned about a law passed by Congress last year that the administration argues strips the high court of jurisdiction over habeas petitions filed by Guantanamo Bay detainees.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

November 25, 2002 | National Law Journal

On the day before Thanksgiving, the U.S. Supreme Court will sit down to a plateful of petitions, including two that would return the Court to some of the thorniest subjects it has faced recently: gay rights and affirmative action. At its private conference, the Court will consider whether to review a case that revisits 1986's Bowers v. Hardwick decision and a challenge to University of Michigan's law school admissions policies.

By Tony Mauro

8 minute read

May 22, 2007 | The Recorder

The U.S. Supreme Court says private plaintiffs must have more than "a bare assertion" of conspiracy to proceed with antitrust complaints. Bad news for Milberg Weiss.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

September 16, 2010 | Texas Lawyer

A brief filed with the Supreme Court warns of "devastating consequences for the legal profession" if the justices allow lawyers and other third parties to be held liable for their background role in preparing allegedly fraudulent securities offerings. Kannon Shanmugam, a Washington, D.C., appellate partner in Williams & Connolly, filed the brief on behalf of Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society, a top professional insurance company for law firms.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

January 16, 2008 | National Law Journal

The Supreme Court on Tuesday quietly helped shatter a glass ceiling by appointing the first female special master in the Supreme Court's history. Munger, Tolles & Olson's Kristin Linsley Myles, a former law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, was named special master in South Carolina v. North Carolina, which comes to the Court under its original jurisdiction -- a category of cases in which the dispute goes to the Supreme Court without the fact-finding or review of any lower court.

By Tony Mauro

2 minute read

November 26, 2007 | New York Law Journal

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read