Zoe Tillman

May 16, 2016 | National Law Journal

President Obama said on Monday the U.S. Supreme Court might not have "punted" on a challenge to the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate if the court were sitting with nine justices.

By Zoe Tillman

3 minute read

May 16, 2016 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Supreme Court will not review a ban on protests and other demonstrations on the high court's white marble plaza.

By Zoe Tillman

8 minute read

May 16, 2016 | National Law Journal

A round up of news from ALM affiliated publications and around the web: the latest billing rates for bankruptcy lawyers, Justice Clarence Thomas on the high court's "difficult time," and start-up companies turn to arbitration to resolve disputes.

By Zoe Tillman

5 minute read

May 13, 2016 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's in-house law judges are unconstitutionally hired for their jobs, a lawyer for an investment adviser, barred for life by the agency, told a federal appeals court in Washington on Friday.

By Zoe Tillman

9 minute read

May 12, 2016 | National Law Journal

A committee of federal judges will review a misconduct complaint against Richard Roberts, the former chief judge of the federal district court in Washington who retired amid allegations that he sexually abused a teenage witness decades ago.

By Zoe Tillman

10 minute read

May 12, 2016 | Law.com

A common refrain since Merrick Garland’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court is that he’s a “moderate” judge—not a firebrand activist, but certainly someone who would shift the high court’s ideological balance to the left. So what does it mean to be a “moderate” judge?

By Zoe Tillman

32 minute read

May 12, 2016 | National Law Journal

The Obama administration unlawfully paid billions of dollars to insurance providers under the Affordable Care Act without a funding appropriation from Congress, a federal district judge in Washington ruled on Thursday.

By Zoe Tillman

6 minute read

May 10, 2016 | National Law Journal

Covington & Burling, representing Nicopure Labs LLC, on Tuesday sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over new vaping rules, which were published today. The company, which sells the devices and manufactures the "e-liquid" used, filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Washington claiming the agency overstepped its authority.

By Zoe Tillman

3 minute read

May 10, 2016 | National Law Journal

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland told the U.S. Senate in writing Tuesday that neither President Barack Obama nor White House staffers sought assurances from him about how he would rule on specific cases or legal issues.

By Tony Mauro and Zoe Tillman

6 minute read

May 09, 2016 | National Law Journal

A go-to lawyer for Republican governors facing scandal and controversy, solo practitioner Karl "Butch" Bowers Jr., will represent North Carolina Gov. Patrick McCrory as he defends a state law that requires transgender state employees to use the bathroom that corresponds to the gender on their birth certificates.

By Zoe Tillman

5 minute read