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Federal Courts SCOTUS April Calendar Springs Up

SCOTUS April Calendar Springs Up

By George Khoury, Esq. | Last updated on March 21, 2019

The April docket of oral arguments for the High Court is pretty packed with 12 cases over two weeks. And still no word on whether Justice Ginsburg will attend...

Federal Courts Notorious RBG Is Back in Court for Big Conference

Notorious RBG Is Back in Court for Big Conference

By George Khoury, Esq. | Last updated on March 21, 2019

It has been announced that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg actually made it into the Court for the Justices' regular conference Friday morning. Since her surgery...

Federal Courts Justice Thomas Wants to End 'Actual Malice' Standard

Justice Thomas Wants to End 'Actual Malice' Standard

By George Khoury, Esq. | Last updated on March 21, 2019

Justice Clarence Thomas has chosen an interesting time to speak up and out against the actual malice standard established by New York Times v. Sullivan.

Federal Courts SCOTUS Saves Bobby Moore From Death, Again

SCOTUS Saves Bobby Moore From Death, Again

By George Khoury, Esq. | Last updated on March 21, 2019

In the ongoing saga of Bobby James Moore v. Texas, the High Court not only granted the death row inmate's petition for writ, the Court issued a summary...

Federal Courts SCOTUS Strikes Down Land Rover Forfeiture

SCOTUS Strikes Down Land Rover Forfeiture

By George Khoury, Esq. | Last updated on March 21, 2019

Five years after John Oliver's expose on civil asset forfeiture, SCOTUS is chiming in to explain that a state's civil in rem forfeiture is subject to the...

Federal Courts SCOTUS: Federal Judges Not Appointed for Eternity

SCOTUS: Federal Judges Not Appointed for Eternity

By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on March 21, 2019

Before he died last year, Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote his last opinion for the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. The appeals court said that employers may...

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