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High Court Ruling Could Take Wind Out of Florida DUI Fight

A U.S. Supreme Court decision might short-circuit a battle about the constitutionality of a Florida law that leads to criminal charges for some drunken-driving suspects who refuse to take breath tests.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

When Justices Offer Their Regrets, It's Usually About the Law

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's public statement Thursday that she regretted her comments about presidential candidate Donald Trump was extraordinary. When justices and judges voice regret or admit errors it's usually about the law and not politics. Here are some recent and not-so-recent regrets from jurists.
9 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Steven Shapiro, 'Jagger' of Civil Liberties, Reflects on ACLU Career, Challenges

This fall, Steven Shapiro, the national legal director for the ACLU, leaves the post he has held since 1993 and the organization for which he has worked since 1987. He directed a large docket of cases that ranged from free speech to gay rights to the death penalty. Shapiro sits down with the SCB to reflect on civil rights, privacy and other areas.
26 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Supreme Court Trends in Class Actions after Scalia

The U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 term will of course most be remembered for the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, whose untimely death promises to affect the court for years to come—and on everything from high-profile questions of constitutional law to how the court reads statutes and what the court decides. It appears that several decisions this term would have come out differently had Justice Scalia lived to see the end of June. In some areas, however, Justice Scalia's absence appears not to have altered the outcomes, even when the court was closely divided on critical issues.
17 minute read

National Law Journal

Could 'Escobar' Prove to Be This Term's Most Expensive Case?

OPINION: The U.S. Supreme Court OK'd broad parameters for fraud deserving of penalties.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Supreme Court Report Card: How Third Circuit Fared in 2015-16 Term

The U.S. Supreme Court's recently concluded 2015-16 term will likely be most remembered for Justice Antonin Scalia's unexpected passing, for the deadlocked cases and stymied ­confirmation process that followed, and for the court's unexpectedly liberal rulings in closely watched cases involving affirmative action in college admissions and abortion rights.
15 minute read

Daily Business Review

US Supreme Court Asked to Rule on Florida Credit Card Law

Attorney General Pam Bondi is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a dispute about the constitutionality of a Florida law that has blocked businesses from imposing surcharges on customers who pay with credit cards.
7 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Which Firms Most Often Capture the Justices' Review?

The University of Southern California's Adam Feldman and Alexander Kappner studied 93,000 cert petitions between 2001 and 2015 to try to glean what factors make a petition more or less likely to be granted. A firm's success "with their aggregate cert filings does not guarantee success on a per-case basis," according to the study.
28 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

Even the Supreme Court Makes Flubs—and Now it is Letting the Public Know

A letter sent by the U.S. solicitor general's office alerting the Supreme Court to an error in one of its recent opinions is shedding new light on what happens when the court messes up.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Facebook, Tagging 'Spokeo' Ruling, Wants Photo-Privacy Suits Dismissed

Relying on their recent U.S. Supreme Court victory in a case involving the online search engine Spokeo Inc., a Mayer Brown team wants a federal judge in California to dismiss a class action that claims Facebook's photo-recognition "tagging" feature violates an Illinois privacy law.
15 minute read

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