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New York Law Journal

Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet

Justice Louis D. Brandeis fervently believed in economic justice, freedom of speech and freedom against unreasonable search and seizure. His words and opinions are most relevant to the times we live in.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Ginsburg, Sotomayor to Join Circuit Anniversary Event

By | October 21, 2016
U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor will sit with the judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Wednesday in a special session to commemorate the circuit's 125th anniversary.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

ACLU Sues for Voter Registration Extension in Wake of Hurricane Matthew

The civil rights group said racial minorities and young people in Georgia are most likely to register right before the deadline.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Alito, Thomas to Headline Federalist Society Annual Convention

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Jr. are headliners next month at the Federalist Society's annual national convention, which will focus on the legacy of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The agenda marks the return of the appearance of at least one conservative justice—a seven-year streak that ended last year when no justice spoke at the event in Washington. Numerous lawyers from Big Law are set to participate on panels at the convention.
20 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Sotomayor, in Dissent, Calls Out Colleagues on Death Penalty Faults

Justice Sonia Sotomayor has never said or written that she believes the death penalty is unconstitutional. Indeed, her views on the death penalty remain unclear. Instead, Sotomayor has wielded her pen in dissent—sometimes alone—to focus on flaws in the application of capital punishment: from ineffective assistance of counsel to questionable lethal injection drugs to judges who override life sentences by juries.
10 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Daimler's Effect on Bank of Nova Scotia Subpoenas


In addition to having a momentous effect on civil litigation, could the Supreme Court's decision in Daimler v. Bauman also affect criminal investigations? The answer is yes.
17 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Why it Took 12 Judges to Replace Scalia for Bryan Garner's Latest Book Project

In 2012, legal writing guru Bryan Garner proposed writing another book with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia—this one on the role and value of precedents in judicial decision-making.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices Will Hear Post-Sept. 11 Claims Against Ashcroft, Mueller

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether a 14-year-old suit should go forward against former George W. Bush attorney general John Ashcroft and former FBI director Robert Mueller III based on their roles in the post-Sept. 11 roundup and detention of Muslim, Arab and South Asian men.
14 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Can Keep $126M After SCOTUS Rejects Tobacco Case

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Philip Morris USA Inc. and others challenging a Pennsylvania court ruling that modified a national settlement over tobacco-related health care costs in a way that saved the state about $126 million.
15 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Retroactivity

The government's retroactivity position in Beckles seems more like a belated attempt at damage control than a principled effort to apply the law consistently across a set of similarly situated defendants.
16 minute read

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