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National Law Journal

VOIR DIRE: Supreme Shoutout

A SCOTUS justice for "Superhero Day," somebody's still behind the wheel in the "Drive" lawsuit, and a drug bust is a total bust in this week's column.
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National Law Journal

Supreme Court Takes Up Amgen-Sandoz Dispute Over Biosimilar Drugs

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider for the first time requirements laid out in a 2010 law that created a fast track for the approval of biosimilar medications.
11 minute read

National Law Journal

Supreme Court Will Choose Forum for Water-Rule Fight

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide where a major challenge over an Obama administration clean-water rule should be waged—in a federal appellate court or the federal district courts. The justices agreed to hear claims from national companies, 29 states and agriculture-related groups that argued the litigation should take place in federal district courts and not in a federal appellate court.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices Will Decide Legality of Class Action Bans in Employment Contracts

An unusual confluence of petitions from employers, employees and the government successfully urged the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether workplace arbitration agreements banning class actions violate federal labor laws. The justices agreed on Friday to take up the dispute.
10 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Attorneys Can't Ignore Tribal Courts

By | January 13, 2017
A case is now before the U.S. Supreme Court on the narrow question of whether tribal employees share a tribe's well-established immunity from suit. The answer to this question is unclear, but the responsibilities of lawyers are not. Those whose clients interact with tribal nations have no excuse for ignoring tribal courts.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Will Trump's Ethics Plan Satisfy the Constitution?

President-elect Donald Trump's multifaceted plan to deal with potential conflicts of interest while in office, announced Wednesday, will not end the discussion of what he must do under the U.S. Constitution to avoid ethics problems.
18 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Supreme Court Confronts Racial Bias in Jury Deliberations

A brief survey of news and social media confirms a rather obvious proposition: The citizens of our nation harbor deep biases. Some of those are innocuous and help us navigate the world. Others are more pernicious, and our legal system exists in no small part to neutralize the impact of those impermissible biases. In Peña Rodriguez v. Colorado, the U.S. Supreme Court is grappling with the issue of racial bias in the decision-making of a criminal trial jury.
11 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

How a New Supreme Court Justice Could Hit the Ground Running—or Not

By tradition, Donald Trump's nominee wouldn't vote on cases argued before their tenure began—but that's not an ironclad rule, court experts say.
14 minute read

The Recorder

Big Law Associate Takes on Supreme Court Veteran Over NCAA Race-Bias Claims

A Morrison & Foerster associate who recently completed a U.S. Supreme Court clerkship will argue Wednesday against former solicitor general Seth Waxman in a major race discrimination case that involves the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
18 minute read

Daily Business Review

Supreme Court Nomination Coming Soon, Trump Says

President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday he plans to announce a Supreme Court nomination within two weeks of his inauguration January 20.
4 minute read

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