By Marcia Coyle | June 14, 2018
The U.S. Justice Department told the Seventh Circuit that it would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to stay a nationwide injunction if the appeals court doesn't rule by June 18. The appeals court, responding to Main Justice, refused to budge. The court said it was awaiting the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. Hawaii, which raises issues about the propriety of nationwide injunctions.
National Law Journal | Analysis
By Tony Mauro | Marcia Coyle | June 14, 2018
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justices Samuel Alito Jr. and Stephen Breyer each reported selling stock holdings, according to the latest financial disclosure forms, released Thursday. Other stock sales reported in the forms also help explain justices' recusal behavior in cases before the Supreme Court.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Francis J. Lawall and Michael J. Custer | June 14, 2018
Although broad, the Bankruptcy Code's discharge provisions for individual debtors are not without limits.
By Mike Scarcella | June 14, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Thursday was a boost to class action plaintiffs in dispute over vitamin C. Foreign law deserves "respectful consideration," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote, but it doesn't decide this class action.
By Tony Mauro | June 14, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Thursday was a boost to class action plaintiffs in dispute over vitamin C. Foreign law deserves "respectful consideration," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote, but it doesn't decide this class action.
By Tony Mauro | June 13, 2018
"This is an unbelievably important case,” says Wilmer Hale's Seth Waxman, who wrote the petition on Brendan Dassey's behalf. The petition had been on the justices' Thursday conference list but was later rescheduled.
By Joseph M. McLaughlin and Shannon K. McGovern | June 13, 2018
Corporate Litigation columnists Joseph McLaughlin and Shannon McGovern discuss the Supreme Court's recent grant of certiorari to decide the propriety and potential limits of cy pres settlements.
By Marcia Coyle | June 12, 2018
"The contracts clause categorically prohibits states from passing 'any ... law impairing the obligation of contracts,'" Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in a solo dissent in the case Sveen v. Melin. The framers, Gorsuch said, "were absolute. They took the view that treating existing contracts as 'inviolable' would benefit society by ensuring that all persons could count on the ability to enforce promises lawfully made to them."
By Tony Mauro | June 12, 2018
Celia Choy and Dahlia Mignouna, both Yale Law School graduates, will continue in their practice in the firm's 12-lawyer Washington, D.C., office until they head to the court in the summer of 2019 to clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer. More than half of the lawyers in Munger's office here are women, and a third are racial or ethnic minorities.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Erica Rutner | June 11, 2018
On June 11, 2018, a nearly unanimous Supreme Court dealt a deafening blow to the practice of filing successive class actions. In China Agritech v. Resh, 584 U.S. ___ (2018), the court was faced with whether a class action filing tolls the statute of limitations for putative class members who wish to file subsequent class actions.
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