By Tony Mauro | March 13, 2018
“Any harassment in the judiciary is too much,” James Duff, director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, told the Judicial Conference in an interim report on Tuesday.
By Marcia Coyle | March 13, 2018
A U.S. Supreme Court capital case could expand the federal jurisdiction over crimes involving Indians in eastern Oklahoma, including Tulsa.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Shepard Goldfein and Karen Hoffman Lent | March 12, 2018
Antitrust Trade and Practice columnists Shepard Goldfein and Karen Hoffman Lent write: After the U.S. Supreme Court issued decisions in 2012 and 2015 heightening judicial scrutiny of state action immunity, bipartisan efforts at both the state and federal levels have emerged in an attempt to minimize the potential for misuse of state action immunity, particularly among state professional licensing boards. With the Supreme Court set to hear oral arguments this month in yet another case involving state action immunity, further reform may be on the horizon.
By Marcia Coyle | March 12, 2018
Google Inc. tells the U.S. Supreme Court there was nothing unfair or unreasonable about the tech company's $8.5 million settlement of a privacy class action in which $5.3 million of the funds go to third parties and none to members of the class. Class members—more than 100 million Google users—each would have received 4 cents, court records show. The Google settlement directs settlement funds to be distributed proportionally to six recipients that are devoted to web privacy.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Mark A. Cuthbertson and Matthew DeLuca | March 9, 2018
While there is an extensive body of law on the First Amendment, New York courts have only addressed government social media in evidentiary disputes. However, recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal district court in Virginia suggest that the rigorous protections afforded to freedom of speech generally extend to the digital realm as well.
By Marcia Coyle | March 8, 2018
The number of questions asked by the justices has remained "remarkably constant" since 1995 even as the number of words used increased significantly, according to the new study. But those extra words "are being devoted to comments and statements, not to inquiries of the advocates."
Daily Report Online | Commentary
By Cary Ichter | March 8, 2018
To read the Second Amendment as a guarantee of the unrestricted personal right to own firearms, wholly untethered to security of the state or membership in a state militia, is to ignore the provision's self-contained explanation for the right created.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By P.J. Dannunzio | March 7, 2018
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the case of a Pennsylvania woman whose home, allegedly situated on an ancestral burial ground, was deemed public property by the local municipality.
By Cogan Schneier | March 7, 2018
An analysis from the Pew Research Center shows an increase in senators' opposition to judicial nominations.
By Marcia Coyle | March 7, 2018
In April, the two justices likely will align in the multibillion-dollar battle over state taxation of online retail sales.
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