The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Judith D. Cassel and Melissa A. Chapaska | June 7, 2018
Because marijuana is still frustratingly and inappropriately listed on Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substance Act (21 U.S.C. Section 321 et seq.)…
By Marcia Coyle | June 7, 2018
Three U.S. Supreme Court decisions—two about immigration and the other about gambling, written by Justice Samuel Alito Jr.—were significant in U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson's ruling this week against the Justice Department.
By Tony Mauro | June 7, 2018
The court recently announced that Atlanta solo Amy Weil was “invited to brief and argue” as amicus curiae in favor of an appeals court decision that neither side supports anymore.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Christopher Dunn | June 6, 2018
Presidential pardon fever has spiked over the last week following President Donald Trump's pardon of conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, who had been convicted of federal finance violations, and Trump's suggestion he also might pardon former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich and lifestyle maestro Martha Stewart.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Paul Lopez and Megan Janes | June 6, 2018
In a significant victory for employers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that arbitration clauses in employment contracts are enforceable even if they prevent workers from bringing class action lawsuits.
By Charles Toutant | June 5, 2018
On Tuesday the Appellate Division upheld a decision to invalidate an arbitration clause at issue in "Defina v. Go Ahead and Jump 1," marking the second time a state appeals court has refused to enforce an arbitration agreement in the case.
By Marcia Coyle | June 5, 2018
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously denied the U.S. Justice Department's request to stay the entire injunction pending the government's appeal in the case Garza v. Azar. The Justice Department is challenging the injunction and a trial judge's certification of a nationwide class of pregnant immigrant minors in U.S. custody.
By Tony Mauro | June 5, 2018
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who prides himself on his First Amendment views, made short shrift of the cake-as-art argument: “The free speech aspect of this case is difficult, for few persons who have seen a beautiful wedding cake might have thought of its creation as an exercise of protected speech.”
National Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Leah Litman | June 5, 2018
The high court has underscored that government officials cannot act on the basis of religious animus. Will the justices hold President Donald Trump to those same principles of religious neutrality?
By Marcia Coyle | June 4, 2018
Justices Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer joined Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority ruling. Kagan opened her concurring opinion by quoting Kennedy: "It is a general rule that [religious and philosophical] objections do not allow business owners and other actors in the economy and in society to deny protected persons equal access to goods and services under a neutral and generally applicable public accommodations law."
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