The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Katheryn Tucker | November 2, 2017
The U.S. Senate confirmed University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Stephanos Bibas for a seat on the Third Circuit on Thursday.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Martin A. Schwartz | November 2, 2017
In his Section 1983 Litigation column, Martin A. Schwartz explains how a series of decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court has brought us to the point that even the most blatantly unconstitutional conduct by prosecutors is frequently not redressable under §1983.
By Marcia Coyle | Tony Mauro | November 1, 2017
The number of amicus briefs filed in the case of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple will not break the record set in the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 marriage equality cases, but it clearly signals the high stakes involved for civil rights, business and religious communities. More than 80 briefs in total have been lodged with the justices in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission—short of the record 148 in the same-sex marriage challenges. Not surprisingly, the Masterpiece briefs reflect a familiar divide.
By Katheryn Tucker | November 1, 2017
“Should the court not have friends?” asked the author of an amicus brief that led to demands that a justice recuse.
Texas Lawyer | Analysis|Commentary
By Jackie Ford | November 1, 2017
On Jan. 1, 2016, Texas became the 45th state to allow some form of open carrying of firearms. The Texas statute allows licensed handgun owners…
Texas Lawyer | Quick Takes|Ranking
By Texas Lawyer Staff | November 1, 2017
St. Mary's Law School professor Bill Piatt and his son Bob Piatt, a San Antonio attorney, completed a San Francisco swim that has claimed…
By Scott Graham | October 31, 2017
The U.S. solicitor general, law professors, nonprofits and even one pharma company make the case for saving the Patent and Trial Appeal Board as a cost-effective mechanism for challenging patents.
By Marcia Coyle | October 31, 2017
The Colorado man who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple—a dispute now at the heart of a U.S. Supreme Court case—isn't the only party to his challenge. His company, Masterpiece Cakeshop, is also a party, and a decision in favor of the baker could have wider implications for corporations and shareholders.
By Jim Saunders | October 31, 2017
Warning of attempts to “whittle away” at a 2004 constitutional amendment, the Florida Supreme Court has rejected arguments by hospitals that they…
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. Dannunzio | October 31, 2017
A Pennsylvania woman whose home was declared by her township to be situated on an ancestral burial ground has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling forcing her to open up her property to the public.
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