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Attorneys Brace for Showdown Over Calif. Mass Tort Suits

The state high court left the door open to out-of-state plaintiffs with its ruling in Bristol Myers v. Anderson. Now defense lawyers hope the U.S. Supreme Court will close it.
38 minute read

National Law Journal

Lawyer Turns to Supreme Court to Force Garland Vote

President Barack Obama may be giving up on U.S. Senate confirmation of Chief Judge Merrick Garland, his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, but a New Mexico lawyer is making one last appeal—this time to the high court itself. Steven Michel of Santa Fe on Thursday filed an emergency application for an injunction that would require Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to schedule a vote on the Garland nomination before Obama's term ends on Jan. 20.
8 minute read

Legaltech News

TCCWNA Class Claims and the Continuing Question of Article III Standing

Does the TCCWNA statute have teeth in a post-'Spokeo' world in which injury is required for Article III standing? A look at recent cases.
12 minute read

National Law Journal

Where to Sue: The Hot Business Topic Facing SCOTUS This Term

Business litigators and industry groups are eyeing several petitions in disputes over personal jurisdiction — a nonsexy but crucial area of the law that governs where companies can be sued.
22 minute read

Daily Business Review

Liberal Law Profs 'Lay Down a Marker' on Trump

More than 40 liberal law professors sent a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, voicing “great concern” with his commitment to the nation's constitutional system and opposing the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Alabama, to be the next attorney general.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

US Supreme Court Justice Criticizes Death Penalty in Florida Case

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up a death row inmate's appeal in the four-decade-old murder of an Orlando car salesman, but Justice Stephen Breyer used the case to raise broader questions about the death penalty.
6 minute read

Daily Business Review

Supreme Court Reversal on Apple Patent Leaves Unanswered Questions

The U.S. Supreme Court offered no test for determining damages and didn't address the enforceability of digital designs, writes attorney Daniel J. Barsky.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Supreme Court Refuses Hank Greenberg's Bid to Block NY Fraud Trial

The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari on Monday in an appeal by the former AIG executive and his lawyers at Boies, Schiller & Flexner.
9 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Justice Breyer Laments Inmate's 40-Year Wait on Death Row

Less than two years ago, Justice Stephen Breyer urged his colleagues to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the death penalty. In just one short week, he found additional cases to support his call. Breyer on Monday dissented from the court's refusal to hear the case Sireci v. Florida, a challenge by an inmate, Henry Sireci, who has been on death row for 40 years. Lengthy delays, Breyer wrote, "have become more common."
8 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

In Supreme Court Protest Case, Circuit Judges Search for the Meaning of 'Harangue'

When five protesters rose one by one to disrupt a U.S. Supreme Court session in April 2015, an open mike captured the late Justice Antonin Scalia muttering, "Give them stiff, stiff sentences" as they were carried out and arrested. A year and a half later, the case against the protesters has not yet been resolved, and one part of the law under which they were indicted is under challenge on First Amendment grounds. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard arguments Monday in United States v. Bronstein on the constitutionality of the law that makes it unlawful to, among other things, "make a harangue or oration" in the Supreme Court building or on its grounds.
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