By Marcia Coyle | October 28, 2020
Justice Amy Coney Barrett took the judicial oath yesterday morning and the constitutional oath Monday night at the White House. We have some news tidbits surrounding her arrival. Justice Brett Kavanaugh surprisingly resurrected Bush v. Gore in an election opinion Monday. And a Jones Day associate will make her high court debut as an amicus defending the judgment in a Fourth Amendment case.
By Tom McParland | October 27, 2020
The Second Circuit said an immigrant's experience of "unduly prolonged" incarceration "demonstrated the value" of shifting the burden of proof to the government in order to protect detainees' due-process rights.
By Jane Wester | October 27, 2020
Even if the president were an employee, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled, he would not have been acting within the scope of his job when he made public comments about sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him.
By Jim Saunders | October 27, 2020
Prominent Orlando lawyer John Morgan, who chairs Florida For A Fair Wage, has spent millions of dollars to put Amendment 2, which will raise Florida's minimum wage to $15 by 2026, on the ballot.
By Alaina Lancaster | October 26, 2020
The litigation is the latest to hit Big Tech as some consumers apply more pressure to moderate misinformation and hate speech on social media in the runup to the election, while others call for an end to internet companies' protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Lori Armstrong Halber and Gavin Carpenter | October 26, 2020
On Nov. 4, merely one day after millions of Americans go to the polls and cast their ballots on Election Day, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case that could have serious ramifications for the LGBTQ+ community, as well as wide-ranging implications for the protection of citizens' religious liberties.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Peter A. Crusco | October 26, 2020
In his column on cyber crime, Peter A. Crusco addresses some frequent legal issues involved in a corporation's response to a grand jury subpoena duces tecum for its electronically stored information.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Law Journal Editorial Board | October 25, 2020
We believe in this day and age, with essentially a two-party system, that Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution and the 12th Amendment should be further amended.
By John M. Baker and Katherine M. Swenson | October 23, 2020
Court holds that probable cause is required to justify seizing a person for emergency mental-health evaluation.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By Thomas Prol | October 23, 2020
In the 1980s, so-called "Originalism" was invented and masqueraded as legitimate Constitutional scholarship. It's a contrived theory of analysis that advocates for staying rooted in the past without the advances in gender, racial, ethnic and LGBTQ equality that have liberated those who did not fare so well in the "good old days."
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