Blog from the Capital (Free subscription) | yesterday
At legaltimes.com, Tony Mauro asks a handful of constitutional experts their opinion on how a McCain or Obama presidency might affect the makeup of the Supreme Court in their field. Commenting on church-state affairs, professor Douglas Laycock predicts: [A] McCain...
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
"Supreme Court Hears Environmental, Employment Discrimination Cases": law.com's Tony Mauro has this report....
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
"State, town can't agree on who argues tribal land case": This article appears today in The Providence (R.I.) Journal. And at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times," Tony Mauro has a post titled "Supreme Court Dispute Gets Nastier."...
LexLibris (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
O’Connor Conference: the connection between a strong court system and the economy Tony Mauro of the New Times, wrote an article published October 3rd on Law.com , about a conference attended by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, held at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. The purpose of the conference was to promote the ideal of fair and independent...
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
"Skepticism greets non-union fees case": Tony Mauro has this news analysis online at the First Amendment Center....
Crime and Consequences (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Here is one more nugget from yesterday's SCOTUS orders list. In the Rhode Island Indian law case of Carcieri v. Kempthorne, No. 07-526, the Court denied all the motions for divided argument. Tony Mauro at BLT has this post over...
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Two recent posts of interest at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times." Tony Mauro has a post titled "'Massive Impasse' at the Supreme Court" that begins, "It's the classic dilemma that faces parties who suddenly find themselves before the...
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
"Opening Day at the Supreme Court": Tony Mauro has this post at "The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times."...
Law Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Joseph Larisa, Jr. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Firms that tout Supreme Court practices must sell their clients on the idea that their experience standing before the justices not only merits a hefty fee, but gives the client a better chance of victory than it would have with the lawyer who argued the case through the lower courts. Over at the BLT blog , Tony Mauro has been tracking a dispute...
CrimProf Blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
As detailed in this Tony Mauro piece, the new SCOTUS Justices apparently are content to continue to rely on the cert pool to help screen cert petitions: As they enter their second term, the Supreme Court's two newest justices have...
Law.com (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
... docket, there is more interest in issues involving the court's management and composition. At , Tony Mauro explains: The Supreme Court begins its fall term today on the verge of significant change -- in its caseload and among the lawyers who argue before it, and possibly even in its membership. By the end of the term in June, the Court could have decided more cases than it has in...
