Testifying to a House subcommittee about workplace conduct, two federal judges said that “the Judiciary’s process for protecting employees is demonstrating its promise and should be given time to build upon the significant strides made to date.” Judges M. Margaret McKeown and Julie A. Robinson testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet subcommittee. McKeown, of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and Robinson, of the District of Kansas, both are members of the Federal … Read the rest
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.
Here’s the Thursday morning read:
- As Jackson Faces Senators, Her Criminal Defense Record Is a Target (Carl Hulse, The New York Times)
- U.S. Supreme Court nominee Jackson a tough sell on racial-bias claims (Andrew Chung & Lawrence Hurley, Reuters)
- The Pandemic Brought New Levels of Transparency to the
In a recent Legal Update[1], we discussed the emerging intersection between Tax and ESG and highlighted the various external stakeholders pressuring for greater visibility into the global tax positions of multinational companies (MNEs). One increasingly vocal stakeholder group is activist shareholders. Recently, a group of institutional investors of a Fortune 50 company initiated a shareholder proposal calling for the company to publicly disclose where and how much tax it pays around the world. This is only the latest in what … Read the rest
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On Saturday, March 19, at 1 p.m. EDT, Duke Law School and O’Melveny & Myers LLP will co-host a virtual memorial service for Walter Dellinger and his wife, Anne Dellinger. The event is open to all. Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar who argued 24 cases at the Supreme Court, died on Feb. 16, 2022. He was 80. Friends, colleagues, and former students wrote tributes to his life and work shortly after his death. Anne Dellinger, a longtime faculty member at the University … Read the rest
In 2021, the Judiciary confronted uniquely trying times: The global pandemic placed serious constraints on the courts for a second straight year, unanticipated spikes in caseloads were driven by the Jan. 6 upheaval at the Capitol and other events, and cybersecurity threats to government technology systems continued unabated.
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On March 11, 2022, President Joseph Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) announcing further prohibitions on imports, exports and new investments related to Russia. This announcement was made at the same time that the president and the other G7 leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom, as well as the European Union, announced new economic actions which will revoke Russia’s “Most Favored Nation” status (see Update of March 12, 2022) and efforts to deny borrowing … Read the rest
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.
Here’s the Friday morning read:
- Murkowski on tough Supreme Court choice: ‘This is a different game’ (Manu Raju & Alex Rogers, CNN)
- The Supreme Court Did the Right Thing. I’m Still Worried. (Jamelle Bouie, The New York Times)
- The Marble Palace Blog: Tweeting Supreme Court History (Tony Mauro, The
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This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether the statute of limitations in the Quiet Title Act is a jurisdictional rule or a claims-processing rule and whether the government can prosecute wire fraud under a “right to control” theory of property.
In Wilkins v. United States, two landowners ask the justices to decide that the 12-year statute of limitations in the Quiet Title Act is not jurisdictional, with the … Read the rest