By Marcia Coyle | April 19, 2017
Stuart Banner is a legal historian who has written books on the history of baseball's antitrust exemption, the struggle to control airspace and how American Indians lost their land. On Wednesday, Banner achieved a new distinction: He won his first U.S. Supreme Court argument.
By Ross Todd | April 18, 2017
Legal fee awards resulting from acts of bad faith in litigation must be causally linked to the underlying misconduct, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
By Tony Mauro | April 18, 2017
A case argued Tuesday considers whether the use of "disgorgement" by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should be considered a penalty subject to a five-year statute of limitations.
By Tony Mauro | April 17, 2017
The case before the court deals with a narrow issue of deadlines for initiating litigation. Representing CalPERS, Thomas Goldstein of Goldstein & Russell told the justices litigation could overwhelm the courts if statutory deadlines for opt-out lawsuits are interpreted too strictly.
By Tony Mauro | April 17, 2017
The rookie judge was up on the minutiae of all three cases argued Monday and ready to engage with counsel. Here are four highlights from his first day on the bench.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 14, 2017
In a case closely watched by institutional investors, CalPERS is hoping to reverse the Second Circuit and extend the window for opt-out suits.
By Marcia Coyle | April 12, 2017
Thirteen years after suing the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority—and winning a $655 million jury award in 2015—the American victims and estates of victims of a series of bombings and shootings in Israel are asking the justices to overturn a federal appeals court decision that jettisoned them out of court.
By Tony Mauro | April 12, 2017
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will be closely watched Monday when the lawyer who most prominantly backed his nomination rises to argue in a civil procedure case.
By Tony Mauro | April 12, 2017
Being human, U.S. Supreme Court justices sometimes make mistakes—including the mispronunciation of words or names during oral argument.
By Marcia Coyle | April 11, 2017
Just days before Neil Gorsuch will plunge into the U.S. Supreme Court's menu of regulatory challenges, a Washington federal appeals judge on Tuesday turned to the newest justice to bolster her own concerns about the deference that courts give to agencies' interpretation of their rules.
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