By Marcia Coyle | November 6, 2017
One item on an otherwise routine U.S. Supreme Court orders list on Monday caught the eye of high court devotees and triggered questions across the Twitter-verse: “The motion of the solicitor general to argue pro hac vice is granted.” A pro hac vice request from the Office of Solicitor General? How could it be that a member of the government's top appellate team was not a member of the Supreme Court bar? Meet Christopher Michel, who recently joined the SG's Office.
By Jonathan Ringel | November 5, 2017
"Obviously, I have a self- interest," Breyer said, adding, "I think we do pretty well."
By Tony Mauro | November 2, 2017
In an extremely rare media interview on Fox News Wednesday night, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas defended his new colleague, discussed judicial philosophy and raised concerns about limiting exposure to ideas.
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 Cogan Schneier | November 1, 2017
Husch Blackwell's Steve Grasz said during a Senate hearing that during an interview with the ABA, he was repeatedly asked about personal beliefs.
By Tony Mauro | November 1, 2017
Nicole Saharsky, who has argued 29 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court as an assistant to the U.S. solicitor general, is joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner and co-chair of the firm's appellate and constitutional law practice group.
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 Scott Flaherty | October 31, 2017
The ABA's standing committee on the federal judiciary panned Trump's pick for the court.
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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.
By Tony Mauro | October 30, 2017
It's a professional courtesy for parties to consent to amicus filings at the certiorari stage. But is that always the right call?
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