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By EDITORIAL BOARD | June 16, 2017
In deciding specific cases, judges often need to decide what complex or vague rules mean for similar cases. If the public can read an opinion and say, "Aha, now I know what that rule means," the rule of law is greatly enhanced.
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By Tony Mauro | June 16, 2017
It has been an eventful spring for Williams and Connolly partner Kannon Shanmugam. In April, his wife Vicki gave birth to their third son, Henry. In May and June, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered two other bundles of joy: victories in both the cases he argued this term. "Two Supreme Court cases and a baby. I can't complain," Shanmugam said.
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By Marcia Coyle | June 16, 2017
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday reversed its position in a key labor case, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that workplace agreements that ban class actions do not run afoul of federal labor law.
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By Cogan Schneier and C. Ryan Barber | June 16, 2017
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein faced mounting pressure Friday to recuse himself from overseeing the investigation of Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election. His recusal could push Rachel Brand, the No. 3 in command at Main Justice, into a greater national spotlight. Brand was the first woman to ever serve as associate attorney general. Here are highlights from her career, which includes stints in Big Law at Wilmer Hale, and running the SCOTUS murder boards for Justices John Roberts Jr. and Samuel Alito Jr.
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By Marcia Coyle | June 15, 2017
Donald Verrilli Jr., the former U.S. solicitor general, was twice confronted by the justices over how presidential statements affected the government's litigation positions. What about President Donald Trump's comments on his travel-ban orders? The challengers have made "a reasonably strong" case that Trump's tweets and comments are legally fair game, Verrilli says.
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By Marcia Coyle | June 15, 2017
With President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump watching, Justice Neil Gorsuch on Thursday was officially invested as the 101st associate justice of the United States in a brief, formal ceremony in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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By B. Colby Hamilton | June 14, 2017
In a decision relying heavily on the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting liability for statements deemed opinions in securities suits, a Manhattan federal judge has dismissed investor claims against gold mining company Pretium Resources Inc.
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By Marcia Coyle | June 14, 2017
Lower courts don't offer much guidance on how to resolve clashes between presidential speech and the U.S. Justice Department's litigation positions, Kate Shaw of Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law found in a forthcoming article. In "Beyond the Bully Pulpit: Presidential Speech in the Courts," Shaw undertook what she called "the first systematic examination of presidential speech in the courts." Shaw talks about her review in this Q&A with senior Washington correspondent Marcia Coyle.
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By Tony Mauro | June 14, 2017
Civil litigators and corporate counsel can almost taste victory in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California, seen as the term's most important case on jurisdiction.
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By Marcia Coyle | June 14, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court's conference on Thursday includes a challenge to concealed-carry restrictions in California. The Orlando nightclub shooting in June 2016 occurred days before the court declined to hear a challenge to post-Sandy Hook gun laws.
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