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The National Law Journal & Legal Times team is back at the U.S. Supreme Court this morning for the second day of arguments in the same-sex marriage cases. • Tony Mauro, our Supreme Court correspondent, and Marcia Coyle, our chief... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
The National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle discusses Tuesday's developments in the gay marriage arguments at the high court on the PBS NewsHour. Watch High Court Hears Challenge to Same-Sex Marriage Ban on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour. Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
Tony Mauro, our U.S. Supreme Court correspondent, has just emerged from arguments over the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state. He spoke with NLJ Editor in Chief David Brown about today's action: I think... Continue reading
Posted Mar 26, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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The National Law Journal & Legal Times team is at the high court this morning for the first day of arguments in the same-sex marriage cases. • Tony Mauro, our Supreme Court correspondent, and Marcia Coyle, our chief Washington correspondent,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 26, 2013 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is apparently continuing with her plan to speak in California tomorrow after being hastily evacuated along with 178 other passengers from a United Airlines flight at Dulles International Airport in Virginia earlier today. The... Continue reading
Posted Sep 14, 2011 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
In an unusual statement posted on the Justice Department's blog, Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal on Friday spoke of the "mistakes" made by a long-ago predecessor in defending the U.S. government's World War II Japanese-American internment program before the Supreme... Continue reading
Posted May 23, 2011 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
By Jeff Jeffrey Hogan Lovells – the product of last year’s combination of Washington’s Hogan & Hartson and the U.K.’s Lovells – reported Thursday that post-merger revenue declined slightly, but profits rose as the new firm cut costs. The separate... Continue reading
Posted Feb 17, 2011 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
By Jeff Jeffrey After scoring one of the best financial year’s in its history in 2009, Crowell & Moring descended to earth a bit last year, according to the firms just-released revenue and profit numbers. Grosses, the firm said, declined... Continue reading
Posted Feb 16, 2011 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
Betty Murphy, the longtime leader of the labor and employment practice at Baker & Hostetler and the only person ever to have served as chair of the National Labor Relations Board and the administrator of the Wage and Hour Division... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
Word from Hollywood today is that production of the star-crossed NBC show "Outlaw," starring Jimmy Smits as a former Supreme Court justice, has been suspended. The remaining episodes of the show, in which the former conservative justice goes into private... Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
Obituaries of conservative commentator James Kilpatrick, who died at the age of 89 on Aug. 15, inevitably focused in part on his role as a Richmond newspaper editor in the "massive resistance" to school desegregation after Brown v. Board of... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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Steven Fagell, the deputy chief of staff to Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, is planning to return to Covington & Burling, where he had been a partner before taking a post last year at the U.S. Justice Department. Fagell, 37,... Continue reading
Posted Jul 27, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will include Senate votes on the DISCLOSE Act on its annual legislative scorecard, the group said today. The Chamber has lobbied heavily against the campaign finance legislation, which is a response to the Supreme Court's... Continue reading
Posted Jul 26, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
When Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart announced his retirement in 1981 after 23 years on the Court, it was clearly a traumatic occasion for his colleagues, according to correspondence in Stewart's newly public papers at Yale University. "I find myself... Continue reading
Posted Jul 13, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
The late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart and Chief Justice Warren Burger were not close (more on that later) and their correspondence—revealed in the Stewart papers just released at the Yale University library—seems to confirm that. Most are formalities, with... Continue reading
Posted Jul 13, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
The late Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart was probably best known for two things: his classic "I know it when I see it" non-definition of hard-core pornography in Jacobellis v. Ohio in 1964; and his retirement in 1981, which cleared... Continue reading
Posted Jul 13, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
Patton Boggs' acquisition of the Breaux Lott Leadership Group combines one of K Street's largest firms with one of its emerging powerhouses. It also brings Patton Boggs a bipartisan set of rainmakers, together with a client list heavy with energy... Continue reading
Posted Jul 1, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
Thorn Run Partners has hired Gary Palmquist, a lobbyist for the National Federation of Independent Business, to work part-time for the firm. In an unusual arrangement, Palmquist will also continue working for the NFIB. Andy Rosenberg, one of the founders... Continue reading
Posted Jul 1, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
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The National Law Journal's photo editor, Diego M. Radzinschi, has been covering the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Below is a sampling of his work from Monday, the first day of the hearing. The scene in Room... Continue reading
Posted Jun 29, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
Live coverage of the Kagan confirmation hearings, featuring Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal's chief Washington correspondent. For additional NLJ coverage of the hearings, watch for postings below. Continue reading
Posted Jun 28, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
Many assume that if confirmed as a Supreme Court justice, Elena Kagan's votes on the Court will come out pretty much the same way as those of her predecessor John Paul Stevens. But two separate reports issued Wednesday suggest that... Continue reading
Posted Jun 24, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
With just days to go before Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's Senate confirmation hearing, she is still an unfamiliar figure to most Americans, according to a poll released today by C-SPAN. Only 19% of those polled could name Kagan when... Continue reading
Posted Jun 24, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
In this week's edition of Supreme Court Insider, NLJ's new newsletter focusing on the nation's highest court, we take a look at: -- The titanic tangle of tobacco litigation the justices will consider for review at their private conference next... Continue reading
Posted Jun 17, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times
It was apparently VIP night last night at the Kennedy Center for the third performance of the one-man play 'Thurgood,' featuring Laurence Fishburne's powerful portrayal of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. The play, a must-see for the D.C.... Continue reading
Posted Jun 4, 2010 at The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times