By Preston Burton, Bree Murphy and Leslie Meredith | June 5, 2017
Recognizing a Fifth Amendment privilege for corporations — whether through wholesale abolition of the collective entity doctrine or by recognizing some limited exception for custodians of smaller corporations — would not foreclose meaningful white-collar prosecutions, but it would restore protection of the Fifth Amendment rights of individuals who are sacrificed under the current bright-line rule. Will Justice Gorsuch help in this endeavor?
By Tony Mauro | June 5, 2017
A unanimous court ruled that the commission's disgorgement orders imposed on fraudsters amounted to a penalty and as such, must meet a five-year statute of limitations.
By Marcia Coyle | June 5, 2017
Three religious-affiliated, nonprofit hospital systems won reprieves from multimillion-dollar class actions Monday in the U.S. Supreme Court. But that relief may not be long-lasting. Here are some takeaways from plaintiffs' counsel, employment benefits attorneys, and others on the implications of the high court's decision.
By Tony Mauro | June 5, 2017
The president attacked the courts and his own Justice Department in a flurry of early-morning tweets regarding his travel ban order.
By Cogan Schneier | June 2, 2017
Longtime government attorneys and Big Law litigators are among the familiar names leading the travel ban appeal.
By Marcia Coyle | June 1, 2017
In the next few weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court could issue a decision that puts a crimp in the investigation schedule of special counsel and former FBI director Robert Mueller III.
By Tony Mauro | May 31, 2017
The latest effort to force the U.S. Supreme Court to allow demonstrations on the court's marble plaza was dismissed by a Washington federal judge on Wednesday. The challengers in the case, , claimed the ban on demonstrations at the high court violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act by burdening their religious rights to protest capital punishment with candlelight vigils.
By Tony Mauro | May 30, 2017
Ruling in BNSF Railway v. Tyrrell, the court said Monday that the 14th Amendment does not allow a state to bring an out-of-state company before its own courts for an incident that happened elsewhere.
By Tony Mauro | May 25, 2017
Former President Barack Obama rejected a pathway to a Supreme Court clerkship, saying that's not how you make change.
By Cogan Schneier | May 24, 2017
An en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit must decide whether the way SEC administrative law judges are hired is unconstitutional.
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