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New Jersey Law Journal

Juror Bigotry Warrants Look 'Behind the Veil'

By | October 10, 2016
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

The Implications of Escobar that You May Have Missed

The Supreme Court's ruling on Escobar led many commentators to focus on its materiality holidng. But the implications on implied false certification should not be overlooked.
17 minute read

National Law Journal

Harvard, Citing Justices' Affirmative-Action Ruling, Defends Admissions Policy

Harvard's legal team, relying on the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in June for affirmative action, is urging a federal judge to dismiss two of six charges in a suit that accuses the university of discriminating against Asian-American student applicants.
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Technology and the Law's Role in Protecting Citizens

Drones, medical help via smartphones, self-driving cars, medical marijuana and the web watchers invading every element of privacy we have left. What is this world coming to? Perhaps more importantly, what is the role of the law in protecting citizens?
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Supreme Court Review at CUNY Law

By | October 06, 2016
The CUNY School of Law's Center on Latino and Latina Rights and Equality presented its 7th Annual U.S. Supreme Court Review/Preview Tuesday evening, discussing key cases of interest to the Latino community and to practitioners concerned with issues of equality and social justice.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

George Mason Christens Antonin Scalia Law School

Six Supreme Court justices attended the renaming, including Justice Elena Kagan who called her late colleague "one of the most important Supreme Court justices ever."
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Justices Wary of Tinkering with Insider-Trading Prosecutions

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to loosen the rules that have governed insider-trading prosecutions for more than 30 years, brushing aside the 2014 Newman appeals court decision that made it harder for the government to go after tippers and tippees.
9 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Race Docket at High Court Runs Deep in New Term

Race, never far from the U.S. Supreme Court docket, moved to the fore in the term's first week in two arguments that challenge its presence in the criminal justice system. The justices this term will grapple with race in criminal justice, electoral maps and lending discrimination.
13 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Kim Kardashian Robbery Makes Hypothetical in Opening SCOTUS Arguments

The U.S. Supreme Court's opening session Tuesday featured two hours of argument over the intent of jurors who gave inconsistent verdicts and what elements prosecutors must prove for bank fraud. The answers were as clear as the skies over the Caribbean as Hurricane Matthew spins up the coast. Not even hypotheticals involving such real-life characters as Kim Kardashian and Jesse James could clear the clouds in the courtroom.
12 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices Hunt for Intent in Bank Fraud Law

The harrowing robbery of Kim Kardashian in Paris, Jesse James' historical bank heists and even notorious bank robber Willie Sutton played into U.S. Supreme Court arguments on Tuesday as the justices wrestled with the level of intent needed to prove federal bank fraud.
9 minute read

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