New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Michael S. Vogel | June 7, 2018
Not only would a self-pardon make a mockery of the power's roots in the virtue of mercy, but it would even more fundamentally conflict with the essence of the presidency itself.
By Colby Hamilton | June 6, 2018
The appellate panel found the New York Court of Appeals' response to certified questions showed the Lower Manhattan authority had no ability to sue on state constitutional grounds.
By R. Robin McDonald | June 6, 2018
The panel verbally brawled in concurring opinions over the credibility of state witnesses.
By Tony Mauro | June 5, 2018
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who prides himself on his First Amendment views, made short shrift of the cake-as-art argument: “The free speech aspect of this case is difficult, for few persons who have seen a beautiful wedding cake might have thought of its creation as an exercise of protected speech.”
By Kristen Rasmussen | June 5, 2018
Gov. Nathan Deal delivered the oath of office to new Georgia Court of Appeals Judges E. Trenton “Trent” Brown III and Elizabeth Gobeil during a packed ceremony Tuesday morning in the State Capitol's House Chamber.
By Jim Turner, News Service of Florida | June 5, 2018
And all five announced attorney general candidates, from both parties, object in some fashion to a wide-ranging law approved by the Legislature and Gov. Rick Scott after the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people.
National Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Leah Litman | June 5, 2018
The high court has underscored that government officials cannot act on the basis of religious animus. Will the justices hold President Donald Trump to those same principles of religious neutrality?
By Marcia Coyle | June 4, 2018
Justices Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer joined Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority ruling. Kagan opened her concurring opinion by quoting Kennedy: "It is a general rule that [religious and philosophical] objections do not allow business owners and other actors in the economy and in society to deny protected persons equal access to goods and services under a neutral and generally applicable public accommodations law."
By Katheryn Tucker | June 4, 2018
“This is a case about just how far the First Amendment bends in allowing government to punish its employees for the viewpoints they communicate in theirprivate lives,” Justice Nels Peterson wrote. “I am doubtful that it allowed the punishment imposed here.”
By Ellis Kim | June 4, 2018
President Donald Trump tweeted Monday that legal scholars are on his side. Here's a review of the mixed opinions on this idea.
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