By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez | November 2, 2017
Briefs from companies are pouring in for Oil States Energy Services v. Greene's Energy Group, which will be heard later this month at the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Tony Mauro | November 2, 2017
In an extremely rare media interview on Fox News Wednesday night, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas defended his new colleague, discussed judicial philosophy and raised concerns about limiting exposure to ideas.
By Marcia Coyle | Tony Mauro | November 1, 2017
The number of amicus briefs filed in the case of a Colorado baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple will not break the record set in the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 marriage equality cases, but it clearly signals the high stakes involved for civil rights, business and religious communities. More than 80 briefs in total have been lodged with the justices in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission—short of the record 148 in the same-sex marriage challenges. Not surprisingly, the Masterpiece briefs reflect a familiar divide.
By Tony Mauro | November 1, 2017
Nicole Saharsky, who has argued 29 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court as an assistant to the U.S. solicitor general, is joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as a partner and co-chair of the firm's appellate and constitutional law practice group.
By Scott Graham | October 31, 2017
The U.S. solicitor general, law professors, nonprofits and even one pharma company make the case for saving the Patent and Trial Appeal Board as a cost-effective mechanism for challenging patents.
By Marcia Coyle | October 31, 2017
The Federalist Society's annual convention on Nov. 16 features Justice Neil Gorsuch as its ticket-only dinner speaker and a convention theme close to his heart: administrative agencies and the regulatory state.
By Marcia Coyle | October 31, 2017
The Colorado man who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple—a dispute now at the heart of a U.S. Supreme Court case—isn't the only party to his challenge. His company, Masterpiece Cakeshop, is also a party, and a decision in favor of the baker could have wider implications for corporations and shareholders.
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By P.J. Dannunzio | October 31, 2017
A Pennsylvania woman whose home was declared by her township to be situated on an ancestral burial ground has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling forcing her to open up her property to the public.
By Marcia Coyle | October 30, 2017
The American Bar Association on Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject what it called a "baseless attempt" by the Trump administration to relegate gays and lesbians to second-class status under the nation's anti-discrimination laws. Donald Verrilli Jr., a former Obama-era U.S. solicitor general, filed the brief for the ABA in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. In the case, a baker refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
By Tony Mauro | October 30, 2017
It's a professional courtesy for parties to consent to amicus filings at the certiorari stage. But is that always the right call?
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