Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Texas tells Supreme Court it shouldn’t be ‘left holding the bag’ for US nuclear waste (Maureen Groppe, USA Today) Oklahoma’s ‘dirty political laundry’ on full display as U.S. Supreme Court takes interest […]
Standards slipping Law students and lawyers may need to engage more with ethics as part of their training if proposals from the super-regulator move forward. The Legal Services Board’s new consultation paper builds on its research into lawyer conduct, including concerns about misleading courts, the use of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs), misused NDAs, […]
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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to research by Harvard Law Fellow Heidi K. Gardner, Babson College professor Madeline K. Kneeland and Adam M. Kleinbaum of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, how much of an increase in new work requests do law firm partners that attend […]
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Get Rid Of DEI Or We Get Rid Of Your Accrediting: Rough times for the ABA. Justice Jackson Shares Her Thoughts On Diversity: The people in power should look like The People. Was That A Prohibition Or Permission?: The White House’s response to judges being threatened is nutty. Keeping It In The Family: Qualified guy […]
Share The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a request by the Trump administration to lift an order by a federal judge that had instructed it to temporarily reinstate Hampton Dellinger as the head of the Office of Special Counsel. In a one-sentence order on Thursday afternoon, the justices threw out the plea as moot – […]
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