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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.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices Extend Prosecutors' Winning Streak in Financial Fraud Enforcement

A week after federal prosecutors scored a unanimous victory in a securities law challenge in the U.S. Supreme Court, they notched another win Monday in prosecutions under the federal bank fraud law. In Shaw v. United States, the justices, ruling 8-0, rejected Lawrence Shaw's arguments that the federal crime of bank fraud did not apply to him because he intended to cheat a bank depositor, not a bank.
10 minute read

Daily Business Review

Supreme Court Orders New Sentence in Juvenile Rape Case

In the latest in a series of cases dealing with long prison sentences for juvenile offenders, a divided Florida Supreme Court ordered resentencing for a man who at age 15 raped a pregnant woman at knifepoint.
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