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May 31, 2017 | National Law Journal

The latest effort to force the U.S. Supreme Court to allow demonstrations on the court's marble plaza was dismissed by a Washington federal judge on Wednesday. The challengers in the case, Payden-Travers v. Talkin, claimed the ban on demonstrations at the high court violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act by burdening their religious rights to protest capital punishment with candlelight vigils.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

May 31, 2017 | National Law Journal

The latest effort to force the U.S. Supreme Court to allow demonstrations on the court's marble plaza was dismissed by a Washington federal judge on Wednesday. The challengers in the case, , claimed the ban on demonstrations at the high court violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act by burdening their religious rights to protest capital punishment with candlelight vigils.

By Tony Mauro

6 minute read

May 31, 2017 | National Law Journal

Ruling in BNSF Railway v. Tyrrell, the court said Monday that the 14th Amendment does not allow a state to bring an out-of-state company before its own courts for an incident that happened elsewhere.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

May 30, 2017 | Supreme Court Brief

On the rare occasions when he felt the U.S. Supreme Court had messed up, the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist was fond of saying, "Even Homer nods." The court nodded Monday and confessed that it had almost drummed the wrong lawyer out of the Supreme Court bar.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

May 30, 2017 | Supreme Court Brief

On the rare occasions when he felt the U.S. Supreme Court had messed up, the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist was fond of saying, "Even Homer nods." The court nodded Monday and confessed that it had almost drummed the wrong lawyer out of the Supreme Court bar.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

May 30, 2017 | National Law Journal

For the second time this month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of nationwide corporations that are seeking to limit the number of jurisdictions where they can be sued.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

May 30, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Ruling in BNSF Railway v. Tyrrell, the court said Monday that the 14th Amendment does not allow a state to bring an out-of-state company before its own courts for an incident that happened elsewhere.

By Tony Mauro

13 minute read

May 25, 2017 | Daily Report Online

Former President Barack Obama rejected a pathway to a Supreme Court clerkship, saying that's not how you make change.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

May 25, 2017 | National Law Journal

Former President Barack Obama rejected a pathway to a Supreme Court clerkship, saying that's not how you make change.

By Tony Mauro

7 minute read

May 22, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Last year a spokeswoman said the court's budget hearing did not take place because of "a compressed Supreme Court and congressional schedule."

By Tony Mauro

5 minute read