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National Law Journal

IRS Power Is Challenged in Marijuana Dispensary's Supreme Court Petition

"The IRS claims it is necessary and within its power to make administrative determinations that a person is criminally culpable under federal drug laws. Such a claim of power by the IRS is unprecedented," Green Solution's lawyers wrote in the U.S. Supreme Court petition.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Here are the NRA's Go-To Law Firms

With calls for stricter gun control growing louder with each mass shooting—including Sunday's massacre of 26 people at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas—here's a look at the law firms that have handled much of the litigation in recent years for the National Rifle Association.
15 minute read

National Law Journal

Munger Tolles Makes Another Key Hire From Solicitor General's Office

Elaine Goldenberg, who joins former SG Donald Verrilli Jr. at Munger, is the fifth female assistant to leave the office for private practice this year. That sends a fresh infusion of women advocates into law firms but diminishes gender parity in the SG's office.
20 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Justices OK 'For This Turn' Argument From the Solicitor General's Office

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.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Supreme Court to Decide First Antitrust Case in Two Years

On Oct. 16, 2017, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in United States v. American Express Company, the Court's first antitrust case of the 2017 term and the first antitrust case they have reviewed since 2015.
24 minute read

Daily Report Online

Breyer Responds to Trump Calling Justice System 'Laughingstock'

"Obviously, I have a self- interest," Breyer said, adding, "I think we do pretty well."
8 minute read

National Law Journal

DOJ Asks SCOTUS to Discipline ACLU Attorneys in Immigrant Abortion Case

The Solicitor General filed a petition with the high court Friday to vacate the D.C. Circuit's en banc decision that allowed the teen to get her abortion last month.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Counsel From Dell, Facebook, GE Join the Fight for Inter Partes Review

Briefs from companies are pouring in for Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group, which will be heard later this month at the U.S. Supreme Court.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

Clarence Thomas Speaks: Gorsuch Is a 'Good Man'

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.
4 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Justices Hear Competing Voices in Wedding Cake Discrimination Case

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.
42 minute read

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