Avalon Zoppo

February 05, 2025 | National Law Journal

“The President’s unprecedented removal of Ms. Wilcox defies 90 years of Supreme Court precedent that has ensured the independence of critical government agencies," Gwynne Wilcox' attorney Deepak Gupta said in a statement Wednesday.

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3 minute read

February 03, 2025 | National Law Journal

Last summer, the Supreme Court held in Jarkesy v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the the SEC must seek civil fines in court rather than through in-house proceedings.

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3 minute read

January 31, 2025 | National Law Journal

The three-judge panel said the 1968 gun-control statute is inconsistent with Founding-era firearm regulation, pointing to a 1792 act that required 18-year-old men to enroll in the militia and use their own weapons.

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2 minute read

January 30, 2025 | National Law Journal

Giles will be a key adviser as Senate Republicans look to expand President Donald Trump’s mark on the judiciary even as he inherits far fewer judicial vacancies upon entering office than in his first term.

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3 minute read

January 29, 2025 | National Law Journal

President Donald Trump's firing of Gwynne Wilcox spurred the now former NLRB member to say she will be "pursuing all legal avenues" to challenge her removal from the five-member board three years before her term was set to expire, according to media reports.

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4 minute read

January 28, 2025 | National Law Journal

A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that each prisoner in a multi-prisoner suit proceeding in forma pauperis must pay the full amount of a filing fee.

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3 minute read

January 24, 2025 | National Law Journal

On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an NLRB order directing Macy’s to pay union members for "direct or foreseeable pecuniary harms” stemming from an unlawful lockout of workers after a strike, pursuant to the board’s 2022 Thryv v. NLRB opinion.

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5 minute read

January 24, 2025 | National Law Journal

It only took a few hours for challenges to Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order to hit the courts.

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January 23, 2025 | National Law Journal

"He pardoned people because they were doing his bidding, which was to break the law," said former federal appeals court Judge Thomas Vanaskie. "That's an abuse of the pardon power in my judgment. I think it really undermines the rule of law.”

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4 minute read

January 22, 2025 | National Law Journal

Proponents have long argued that the circuit covers too much territory and too many people and its docket is unmanageable; critics say the current system isn’t broken and motivations for the split are merely political.

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