By ALM Staff | July 21, 2017
President Donald Trump is reportedly mulling the scope of his power to pardon everyone around him—and possibly himself—in the Russia investigation that Special Counsel Robert Mueller III leads. (His lawyers said that talk wasn't happening.) All of this means questions remain about pardon power. Here's a snapshot of some of the commentary from around the web.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 21, 2017
Plaintiff's appeal of an agency decision was properly dismissed due to his failure to file a brief in support of his appeal, as required by the court's scheduling order.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 21, 2017
Fiscal enactments diverting proceeds from sale and lease of public natural resources away from environmental conservation into the general fund violated commonwealth's obligation as trustee, since proceeds from trust assets were required to be returned to corpus of trust or dedicated to trust purposes. Order of the commonwealth court reversed.
By Dara Kam | July 20, 2017
A Tallahassee judge gave Florida officials more time to present their defense of a 2-year-old law requiring women to wait 24 hours before receiving an abortion, but seemed skeptical that the state would convince him to keep the law on the books.
By Dara Kam | July 19, 2017
The Florida Supreme Court put a temporary block on a 2015 law requiring women to wait 24 hours before getting abortions, but a Tallahassee judge will hold a hearing on a request by opponents to find the law unconstitutional.
By Julianne Opet | July 19, 2017
On June 26, just before breaking for summer recess, the U.S. Supreme Court forged a dramatic exit by issuing a per curiam opinion on the hotly debated "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States," Executive Order No. 13780, 82 Fed. Reg. 13209, more colloquially known as the travel ban.
By Jenna Greene | July 19, 2017
A person's choice of counsel can speak volumes. Consider Ike Kaveladze, the “eighth person” at the now-infamous meeting with Donald Trump Jr. He's tapped Scott Balber, counsel of record in one of the most ridiculous lawsuits of all time. Hint: It involved Donald J. Trump, Bill Maher and an orangutan.
By Tony Mauro | July 18, 2017
Five protesters who disrupted a U.S. Supreme Court session with shouts and songs in 2015 should be sentenced to prison time and barred from the grounds of the court for a year, government lawyers said in court filings Monday.
By therecorder | The Recorder | July 17, 2017
9th Cir.; 15-15078 The court of appeals affirmed a judgment. The court held that the application of Arizona’s 2005 “revocation-on-divorce”…
By therecorder | The Recorder | July 17, 2017
9th Cir.; 16-16067 The court of appeals affirmed a district court judgment. The court held that the law authorizing imposition of a nondisclosure requirement…
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