A “long-shot” petition for certiorari references a little-known clause in the Constitution in an attack on the $200 billion multistate tobacco settlement.
The cert petition by the Competitive Enterprise Institute…
The lawyer for a Columbia University professor accused of having sex with his adult daughter is questioning whether prosecuting incest is “intellectually consistent” with the Supreme Court case that struck…
Over the years, the U.S. Supreme Court has appointed 42 lawyers to argue positions abandoned by the parties, and only one, apparently, has been an in-house lawyer.
By refusing to hear an appeal of a 2nd Circuit decision earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court has apparently turned a friendly eye on the use of law firm…
The U.S. Supreme Court has split 4-4 in a copyright battle between Costco Wholesale Corp. and Swiss watchmaker Omega, leaving intact a federal appeals court ruling in favor of Omega.
In oral arguments on Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court considered an Arizona law that revokes the licenses of businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
In oral arguments on Monday, Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg explored ways to allow the wife of a schizophrenic veteran who missed a filing deadline to pursue…
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