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Where Have All the Supreme Court 'Pin Cites' Gone?

If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were writing, it would be called "The Mysterious Case of the Supreme Court's Missing, Official Pinpoint Citation." When you cite to a U.S. Supreme Court decision, you're supposed to use the official record of case decisions: United States Reports. But there have been no U.S. Reports pin cites for high court decisions in the last three to four years. The court's "well aware of the issue" and says it's working to close the gap.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Visits Military Institute Whose Doors She Opened to Women

More than two decades after her majority decision opened the all-male bastion of the Virginia Military Institute to women, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Wednesday told a packed hall of the school's cadets that she knew her ruling "would make VMI a better place." Ginsburg told the backstory of the decision and how she and Antonin Scalia went back and forth "like ping pongs"—sharing and reviewing some 17, 18 drafts of their opinions.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Periscope: Marcia Coyle on Trump's SCOTUS Choice

By | February 01, 2017
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Nobody Thinks Trump's SCOTUS Pick Is a Grouch. Except Autocorrect.

Those who know U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neal Gorsuch call him "humble," "down-to earth" and "quite personable." Autocorrect, however, sees the opposite—a "grouch." Social media lit up Tuesday night with tweets and posts referencing President Donald Trump's nomination of "Neil Grouch."
1 minute read

National Law Journal

Gorsuch, Drawing Scalia Comparisons, Comes Under Microscope

The U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch triggered a range of responses across the legal and political spectrum Tuesday as lawyers and advocacy groups touted—and criticized—his positions on regulatory matters and civil rights.
25 minute read

Corporate Counsel

This Gorsuch Ruling Pans Agency Deference. Here's Why It Matters to Business

As business lawyers dissect the nominee's record, they're likely to celebrate a 2016 decision by Judge Neil Gorsuch that criticizes the "Chevron doctrine" of agency deference and says the time "has come to face the behemoth.”
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Neil Gorsuch: In His Own Words

Here are some of the Supreme Court nominee's most memorable comments on assisted suicide, the changing work of trial lawyers, and the death of the justice he's been named to replace.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Trump Chooses Neil Gorsuch, Ivy League Conservative, for Supreme Court

In choosing Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court, President Trump opted for a candidate with traditional credentials shared by most modern-day justices. A Colorado native with a degree from Harvard Law School, Gorsuch clerked for Justice Byron White and Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. "In our legal order, it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives," Gorsuch said at the White House.
11 minute read

The American Lawyer

Covington Bags Brinkmann to Bolster Appellate Expertise

Beth Brinkmann, a deputy assistant attorney general for the past eight years who headed the civil division's appellate staff at the U.S. Department of Justice, has chosen Covington & Burling for her post-Obama administration landing.
22 minute read

National Law Journal

Why Gorsuch Nod Would Mark New Triumph for SCOTUS Clerks

In what would be a Supreme Court first, Neil Gorsuch could share the bench with the justice for whom he clerked—Anthony Kennedy. Some observers say the number for former clerks now on the court raises questions of experiential diversity.
12 minute read

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