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13 Jan 2014, 4:34 pm by John Bellinger
   Last week, the Solicitor General informed the Court that the Administration needs to engage in further diplomatic discussions with the Government of Somalia to clarify the status of Mr. [read post]
13 Jan 2014, 12:54 pm by Amy Howe
(Art Lien) Arguing on behalf of the federal government, Solicitor General Don Verrilli began with the big picture, telling the Court that a decision invalidating the president’s recess appointments to the NLRB would “repudiate the constitutional legitimacy” of thousands of appointments going back to George Washington. [read post]
10 Jan 2014, 2:23 pm by Ronald Mann
  It did, however, sufficiently spark the Court’s interest for it to invite the Solicitor General to weigh in. [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 1:12 pm by John Bellinger
  In a footnote, the brief refers to the Solicitor General’s recent amicus brief in the Samantar case arguing that the Fourth Circuit should not have created a categorical jus cogens exception to immunity. [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 8:35 am by Ronald Meisburg
The NLRB’s decision not to pursue Supreme Court review in the NLRA rights poster cases  (which, depending on what happened behind the  scenes, may have in reality been a decision by the Solicitor General of the United States) should not have come as a complete surprise. [read post]
8 Jan 2014, 3:35 pm by Guest Blogger
  And indeed, that is the argument the United States is pressing in Noel Canning. [read post]
8 Jan 2014, 2:34 pm by Marty Lederman
  In the "indirect burden" cases such as the Sherbert line, then, the Court was striving to identify those state actions short of direct legal compulsion that had the same practical effect on religious exercise as does a specific legal command that prevents such exercise--as Solicitor General Fried put the point in his brief in Hobbie v. [read post]
30 Dec 2013, 6:00 am by Jon Robinson
City of Riviera of Riviera Beach, 133 S.Ct. 735 (2013): On January 15, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion in Lozman v. [read post]
30 Dec 2013, 2:25 am by Bob Kraft
The United Kingdom seems to be going through a period of “tort reform” similar to efforts her in the United States. [read post]
 As Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Solicitor General Don Verilli in our Clapper litigation: "General, is there anybody who has standing?" [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 8:27 am by Lyle Denniston
Solicitor General for the government’s views on the case of O’Neill v. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 6:36 am by Marty Lederman
  Moreover, with respect to that one of the two options a RFRA claim is virtually foreclosed by the Court’s unanimous 1982 decision in United States v. [read post]
13 Dec 2013, 12:58 am by John Bellinger
 I have previously explained here and here why the Fourth Circuit’s decision was wrong as a matter of both domestic and international law and why the Solicitor General should recommend that the Supreme Court reverse it. [read post]