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726 Women Carve a Legacy at the Supreme Court Lectern

Who are the women who have argued at the U.S. Supreme Court throughout history? Author Marlene Trestman wanted to know, and so did Julie Silverbrook, executive director of The Constitutional Sources Project. Separately and several years apart, they began the hunt for answers.
21 minute read

National Law Journal

Dozens of Companies Await SCOTUS Ruling on Workplace Class-Action Bans

Dozens of companies in retail, banking, health care and technology await the U.S. Supreme Court's answer to whether workplace arbitration agreements that ban class actions violate federal labor law.
18 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Exercise the 'Thermonuclear Option' on Filibustering

By | March 14, 2017
Anyone who grew up before the civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s will laugh grimly at any claim that the filibuster protects individual liberties.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

In Speech Notes, Neil Gorsuch Painted a Dark Picture of Litigation

New documents provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee include the notes Gorsuch prepared for a speech at the annual dove hunt hosted by Colorado billionaire Phil Anschutz.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

Gorsuch's Adherence to Originalism Should Keep Him From SCOTUS

OPINION: Originalism fails to adapt to changing times and makes promises it cannot keep.
9 minute read

The Recorder

Slideshow: Justice Sotomayor at UC Berkeley

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor held court on Thursday in front of an enthusiastic, capacity crowd at the 2,600-seat Zellerbach Auditorium on the UC Berkeley campus.
1 minute read

National Law Journal

5 Takeaways from Justice Sotomayor's Spirited Berkeley Appearance

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was greeted as something of a judicial rock star on Thursday by an enthusiastic, capacity crowd at the 2,600-seat Zellerbach Auditorium on the UC Berkeley campus.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Supreme Court Considers Cross-Border Jurisdictional Issues

At a recent oral argument, Justice Elena Kagan described the ­U.S.-Mexico border as a jurisdictional "no-man's land." The Supreme Court confronted those jurisdictional limits in Hernández v. Mesa, a case arising from the fatal shooting of a Mexican teenager (Sergio Hernández) by a U.S. border patrol agent; the American officer shot from a position in the United States and wounded Hernández at a location across the border in Mexico.
10 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

With 'Eyes Wide Open,' Blind Lawyer Recounts SCOTUS Clerkship, Unhappy Law Firm Life

Isaac Lidsky, who in 2008 became the first blind U.S. Supreme Court law clerk, writes in a new memoir that working for a Big Law firm after his clerkship felt like trading in a “legal joyride” for a job as a corporate chauffeur.
21 minute read

Daily Report Online

UGA Law Student Joins SCOTUS Brief By Transgender Lawyers, Students

Representatives from the legal community—including lawyers, law students and law professors—last week signed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a Virginia transgender teenager whose discrimination case was pending at the U.S. Supreme Court. More than 100 transgender persons signed the brief in what had been the term's major civil rights case.
23 minute read

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