Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday largely upheld the Food and Drug Administration’s denials of two companies’ applications to sell flavored liquids for use in e-cigarettes. In a unanimous ruling, the justices threw out a ruling by the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit holding that the FDA had improperly pulled a […]
Biglaw Firm Delays Bonuses And Raises: What’s the matter with Lewis Brisbois? Willkie Might Be Next On The Chopping Block: No way Willkie will cave! About That Maybe: Another $100M in pro bono payola for the “Art Of The Deal” president. Damn it. A Goodbye Worth Sipp-ing To: Another Former Skadden associate speaks truth to […]
Share On Wednesday, April 2, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements. The post Announcement of opinions for Wednesday, April 2 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
Scottish Suits? Legal Cheek readers may be interested in a new drama confirmed by the BBC, which follows the lives of young lawyers working Scotland’s “high-octane” legal scene. The BBC’s latest original drama, Counsels, is set in Glasgow and spans eight, hour-long episodes. It centres on five lawyers navigating high-stakes courtroom battles and equally intense […]
Ed. note: This is the latest in the article series, Cybersecurity: Tips From the Trenches, by our friends at Sensei Enterprises, a boutique provider of IT, cybersecurity, and digital forensics services. Another week and another data breach hit the press with thousands of victims’ medical records accessed by attackers. Bassford Remele, a Minnesota-based law firm, announced that it […]
University of Michigan Law School (via Getty) It didn’t take long after SFFA v. Harvard before the right set aim to widen what the holding makes unconstitutional. There have been several feints against law reviews with shady standing issues, like when Stephen Miller tried to sue NYU Law Review on behalf of someone who didn’t […]
(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Some of the New York firms are literally and figuratively more transactional, and some of the other firms are more interested in taking a risk to preserve the rule of law—to push back what they see as presidential abuse […]
(Photo by (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images) Earlier today, we learned that Biglaw firm Willkie Farr was preparing to be the next Biglaw firm targeted by Donald Trump’s likely unconstitutional Executive Orders. But they weren’t tapping litigators to draft a slam-dunk complaint against the administration. Turns out they were busy groveling to the administration. According […]
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue) How much money has Elon Musk reportedly spent on the Wisconsin state supreme court election — which makes it the most expensive state court race in history? Hint: That’s in addition to $8 million […]
Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a case that, at first glance, appears to involve only a technical interpretation of the federal Medicaid Act. But the dispute has drawn widespread attention because of the context in which it came to the justices: an attempt by South Carolina to exclude Planned […]
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