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5 Oct 2023, 2:38 pm by John Elwood
Vullo involves a lawsuit in which the NRA alleges that Maria Vullo, then the Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, violated its First Amendment rights by threatening its business partners to try to encourage them to disassociate from the NRA. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 9:07 am
Outside the context of the death penalty, the Supreme Court has generally allowed states to decide for themselves what punishments fit what crimes. [read post]
5 Nov 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
She reached the 8,000-vote mark recently, voting to confirm Elizabeth Prelogar to be U.S. solicitor general. [read post]
5 Jun 2022, 5:48 pm by Yvonne Nath
So can a unit of a legal technology company (LZ Legal Services is a unit of Legal Zoom). [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 10:18 am by John Elwood
The Solicitor General recommends the Court grant only on the second question. [read post]
9 May 2017, 4:59 am by Jane Chong
Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall argued for the government; Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, argued for appellees, individuals allegedly harmed by the executive order as well as organizations whose clients and members are allegedly harmed by the executive order. [read post]
13 Jan 2008, 1:23 pm
Legislatures in the United States and abroad have passed increasingly restrictive and intrusive laws in order to protect the public from convicted sexual offenders. [read post]
21 Jan 2021, 12:54 pm by John Elwood
In briefs in both cases last month, the outgoing acting solicitor general, Jeffrey Wall, urged the justices to grant cert and vacate the court of appeals’ decisions (both of which went against Trump) under United States v. [read post]
24 Mar 2009, 1:02 am
Solicitor General Kagan Presented to Supreme Court Legal Times After being sworn in on Friday, Solicitor General Elena Kagan was formally presented to the Supreme Court on Monday morning in a brief but historic ceremony as the first woman to hold that position. [read post]
19 May 2024, 10:13 pm by INFORRM
United States A Florida judge has denied an attempt by the former T-Mobile chief executive John Legere to dismiss a $100m defamation suit brought again [read post]
15 Nov 2007, 3:25 pm
, and the high priests in the OLC and the Solicitor General's office. [read post]
3 Jun 2018, 2:18 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Some state securities administrators are appointed by Secretaries of State; some fall under the jurisdiction of their states’ Attorneys General; some are independent commissions and others are appointed by their Governors and Cabinet officials. [read post]
9 May 2014, 8:54 am by John Elwood
  The Court called for the Solicitor General’s views in Federal National Mortgage Association v. [read post]
11 Apr 2019, 1:11 am by Stephen Page
So a Federal Attorney-General loses the power to appoint a large number of judges- and gives that power to his State counterparts- has all the complaints about the system because it is argued that he is not generous enough, and loses whatever leverage he might have in controlling that system.No longer would State politicians be able to wash their hands of family law and say- talk to my Federal counterpart- but they would have to take an active interest in family… [read post]
31 Dec 2011, 1:48 pm by Steve Vladeck
  Moreover, in rebuking a claim put forward by the Solicitor General, she wrote that “we agree that indefinite detention for the purpose of interrogation is not authorized,” id. [read post]
16 Apr 2014, 4:48 am by Lyle Denniston
The Court, as it had done in the Seventh Circuit case, asked the Justice Department for its views on Argentina’s challenge. [read post]
9 Sep 2015, 2:41 am by ligitsec
In a significant defeat for the administration, United States District Court Judge Rosemary M. [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
As but one of what must surely be thousands of examples, consider these words from Neal Katyal, a former acting US Solicitor General, in an interview last week:I think there’s no chance the United States Supreme Court is going to side with Trump on ‘absolute immunity,’ but the Court by having such a delayed schedule gave Donald Trump what he wants, which is a very realistic possibility that he can delay the case past the election. [read post]