Yesterday, Washington Legal Foundation held its annual “High Court Halftime” briefing program to look back on some decisions from the Supreme Court’s October 2011 term and to preview upcoming arguments. The video of this program is available here for on-demand viewing. Hosted by WLF advisory board chairman, The Honorable Dick Thornburgh, and headlined by veteran [...]
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Appellate Experts Assess Supreme Court at Mid-term Point
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, Criminalization of Free Enterprise, Health Care, Regulation of Free Enterprise, U.S. Supreme Court, tagged crime, environment, Media Nosh, Supreme Court on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
WLF Pro Bono Author, Speaker Reaches High Court Milestone
Posted in U.S. Supreme Court on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Washington Legal Foundation congratulates Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP partner Patricia A. Millett who, upon arguing for the Petitioner yesterday in Filarsky v. Delia, became only the second woman in U.S. history to argue 30 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. WLF has been honored to have Pattie participate in several Media Nosh [...]
Update: High Court Denies Review in Case on Businesses’ Association & Speech Rights
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court, tagged litigation industry, speech, Supreme Court on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Back on the First Monday in October 2011, we noted two First Amendment-related cert petitions that were pending with the Supreme Court. The Court denied review to the first, State Farm v. Bedell, in late November. It denied review in the second case, Natso v. 3 Girls Enterprises, today. The denial leaves untouched a troubling [...]
Michigan’s Balkanizing Bottle Redemption Law Treads on Commerce Clause
Posted in Regulation of Free Enterprise, U.S. Supreme Court, tagged fraud on December 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
NBC-Universal Cross-posted by Forbes.com on WLF’s Contributor Page For those who, like me, spent much of the 1990s watching Thursday night’s “must see TV,” much of what happens in our lives can be related to an episode of “Seinfeld.” Sometimes, the same can even be said about legal policy disputes. The U.S. Court of Appeals for [...]
Will Supreme Court Add Another Alien Tort Statute Case to its Docket?
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court, tagged legal activism, litigation, Supreme Court on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Cross-posted by Forbes.com at WLF’s Contributor Site This spring, the U.S. Supreme Court will address whether to impose significant limits on the scope of lawsuits filed under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). For the past several decades, the ATS has served as the favorite vehicle of human rights activists and plaintiffs’ lawyers seeking to challenge [...]
First Monday Cert Monitor: Two Business Cases with Broad First Amendment Implications
Posted in Civil Justice & Litigation, U.S. Supreme Court, tagged First Amendment, litigation industry, Supreme Court on October 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The October 2011 Supreme Court term is underway, with a few cases affecting the free enterprise system scheduled for argument this week, most notably a major copyright case, Golan v. Holder. A counsel for the Petitioner, Kevin Russell, focused on this case at our 25th annual Supreme Court Preview briefing, which can be viewed here. [...]
ObamaCare Opponents, Proponents Race to the Supreme Court
Posted in Health Care, U.S. Supreme Court, tagged Supreme Court on September 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
U.S. Supreme Court door This past week brought us the best night in baseball history. But if, like me, you’re a sucker for the latest developments in the constitutional challenge mounted against the federal health reform law, this past week brought plenty of excitement on that front, as well. On Monday night, we learned that [...]
WLF’s 25th Annual Supreme Court Preview Media Briefing Tomorrow
Posted in U.S. Supreme Court, tagged Media Nosh, Supreme Court on September 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
9:30-10:45 a.m., September 14 Attend in person at 2009 Massachusetts Avenue, NW (Dupont Circle North Metro Exit) or online at www.wlf.org (free registration required) Our Panel of Experts (full invitation here): The Hon. Dick Thornburgh, K&L Gates LLP Jonathan Cohn, Sidley & Austin LLP Elizabeth Papez, Winston & Strawn LLP Kevin Russell, Goldstein & Russell [...]
WLF Attorney Advances Health Care Law Constitutional Debate at SCOTUSblog
Posted in Health Care, U.S. Supreme Court on August 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Washington Legal Foundation Senior Litigation Counsel Cory Andrews injected WLF’s institutional perspective into an ongoing debate yesterday on the constitutional issues surrounding the Affordable Care Act at one of the web’s most popular legal blogs, SCOTUSblog: Reading the constitutional tea leaves: How will the Supremes vote on the Affordable Care Act? Among the many pieces of legislation [...]
Five Questions for. . . Gregory Garre on the “Tenth Justice”
Posted in U.S. Supreme Court, tagged Supreme Court on July 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In this installment of The Legal Pulse‘s Five Questions for series, we chat with Latham & Watkins LLP partner Gregory G. Garre, who served as the 44th Solicitor General of the United States from 2008 to 2009, and before that as Principal Deputy Solicitor General from 2005 to 2008. The Legal Pulse: What impressions do you [...]
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