Tony Mauro
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The Marble Palace Blog: Gifts for SCOTUS Devotees
The Supreme Court’s gift shop is the (online) place for holiday presents for the SCOTUS aficionados in your life. → Read More
'Crisis of Credibility,' Write Tighter, Precedent Questioned: SCOTUS in 2019
A collection of some of our most-read U.S. Supreme Court stories published in 2019 including snapshots on new rules for briefs and argument clerk-hiring trends and cases that dominated headlines. → Read More
Roberts Praises Workplace Misconduct Reforms, But Says ‘Job Is Not Yet Done’
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.'s annual report made no mention of allegations of sexual misconduct directed at Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. → Read More
Judges Push Back at Trump's Anti-Judiciary Tweets
How can you defy the president? U.S. District Judge James Robart said. That’s what my job is—to be sure the Constitution is followed. If that means telling the president he is wrong that is what I am supposed to do. → Read More
Veteran Prosecutor Michael Bromwich Joins Kavanaugh Accuser's Legal Team
Bromwich announced his resignation from Robbins Russell Englert Orseck Untereiner & Sauber to join Christine Blasey Ford's legal team. → Read More
John Roberts Sees Himself as 'Honest Broker' Among the Justices
“I feel some obligation to be something of an honest broker among my colleagues and won't necessarily go out of my way to pick fights” Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said at the biennial conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He also said that at times “You would sort of sublimate your views.” → Read More
Justice Kennedy Announces Retirement, Setting Stage for Nomination Battle
Please permit me by this letter to express my profound gratitude for having had the privilege to seek in each case how best to know interpret and defend the Constitution and the laws that must always conform to its mandates and promises Kennedy said in a letter to President Trump. → Read More
The Mystery Behind the Supreme Court’s Dismissal of a Pending Case
Justice Neil Gorsuch's recusal made it possible that the court was divided 4-4 on the outcome in City of Hays v. Vogt—which sometimes has led the court to dismiss cases. The high court sometimes explains its reasons for dismissing a case but not this time. → Read More
Remembering 'The Boss': Scalia’s Legacy, 2 Years On
“Even two years on from his death Justice Scalia remains a powerful influence on the court said Kannon Shanmugam a former Scalia law clerk and head of Williams & Connolly's Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice. → Read More
SCOTUS Finally Faces Issue of Corporate Liability Under Alien Tort Statute
Strategic tools and news that general counsel need to better manage their legal departments and fully understand the business risks companies face today. → Read More
Lights! Camera! Action! SCOTUS Coming to Screens Big and Small
If the potentially momentous new U.S. Supreme Court term isn't enough to satisfy hungry court watchers justices — alive and dead — and… → Read More
In Big Leap, SCOTUS Announces E-Filing Is Coming Soon
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Thursday that electronic filing of case documents will be required beginning on November 13 and virtually all new filings wi... → Read More
Don't Call SCOTUS 'Honorable'—and Other Tips for Writing Supreme Court Briefs
As Supreme Court counsel for the National Association of Attorneys General for the last 21 years, Dan Schweitzer has read thousands of briefs and has helped ... → Read More
Kagan Recounts Obama Vetting Her for 'Another Very Good Job' That Wasn't SG
Elena Kagan was far along in the new Obama administration's vetting process for an important U.S. Justice Department job when she got a call from the White H... → Read More
Gorsuch to Speak at 9th Circuit Conference After Kennedy's Wife Is Injured
New U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch will make one of his first off-bench public appearances July 17 at the judicial conference of the U.S. Court of A... → Read More
Mueller Recruits Another Lawyer from Solicitor General’s Office to Russia Probe
Elizabeth Prelogar, a former law clerk to Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan, appears to be fluent in Russian. She formerly worked in private pract... → Read More
Supreme Court Clips the Wings of SEC Enforcement
Strategic tools and news that general counsel need to better manage their legal departments and fully understand the business risks companies face today. → Read More
Will the Supreme Court Follow Trump's Tweets
The president attacked the courts and his own Justice Department in a flurry of early-morning tweets regarding his travel ban order. → Read More
SCOTUS Tightens Jurisdiction Rules – Again
Strategic tools and news that general counsel need to better manage their legal departments and fully understand the business risks companies face today. → Read More
SCOTUS to States: Keep Out of Arbitration Agreements
Strategic tools and news that general counsel need to better manage their legal departments and fully understand the business risks companies face today. → Read More