Judiciary.org - Part 54

Supreme Court

The morning read for Wednesday, August 30

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:

Payday Lenders Gave Millions To Republican Group That Backed Supreme Court Suit To Annihilate CFPB (Akela Lacy, The Intercept)
Case closed? Supreme Court silent after Thomas luxury travel raised ethics scandal (John Fritze, USA Today)
After Supreme Court Forces Its Hand, E.P.A. Curbs Wetlands Protection (Lisa Friedman & Coral Davenport, The New York Times)

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Civil Law

Failure Is Just The Cost Of Success

Matthew Homan has what he tongue-in-cheek describes as “Idea Surplus Disorder.” He’s never short of good ideas. Here is one of his better LinkedIn posts. Paralysis due to fear is one of the leading impediments to productive innovation.

Leaders, start reframing failure as “tuition.”

Tell your teams you’re happy to pay tuition to learn a lesson, but make it clear that you’re not willing to pay to take the same class twice.

It will encourage your team to experiment and

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Supreme Court

The morning read for Thursday, August 31

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:

Drugmakers could find sympathetic US Supreme Court in drug pricing lawsuits (Brendan Pierson, Reuters)
Alabama attorney general says he has right to prosecute people who facilitate travel for out-of-state abortions (Andy Rose, CNN)
Supreme Court Urged to Protect ‘Essential Restraint’ on Taxation (Aysha Bagchi, Bloomberg Law)
The EPA removes federal protections for most of

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Supreme Court

Thomas and Alito file 2022 financial disclosures

Justice Clarence Thomas took three trips in 2022 hosted in part or in full by Dallas billionaire Harlan Crow, according to a financial disclosure form made public on Thursday morning. The form also revealed that on at least two of those trips, Thomas traveled by private jet – according to Thomas, at the recommendation of his security detail in the wake of the leaked draft opinion overturning the constitutional right to an abortion.

Each justice is required to file … Read the rest

Civil Law

PRC Court Pierced the Veil of Co-insurance and Found Reinsurance Relationship Established Between the Insurers

By Jia WAN

In a recent case published by Beijing Financial Court (the “BFC”), which was represented by AnJie Broad and classified as one of the typical financial cases for the year of 2022, the BFC pierced the veil of “co-insurance”, and confirmed that reinsurance legal relationship was established between two insurers.

The dispute arose out of the “co-insurance agreement” entered by PICC and China Life where the two insurance companies had disagreement as to the amount that PICC should … Read the rest

Supreme Court

A president and a justice: The shaping of securities law at the Supreme Court

So many books cover the work of the Supreme Court that the Journal of Supreme Court History can review several of them in each issue. The overwhelming majority of those books, though, analyze the work of the court interpreting the Constitution. The court’s other task — interpreting federal statutes — remains markedly underrepresented. Of course, it can be hard to craft a sustained narrative about those cases when many deal with relatively obscure statutes that the court rarely examines … Read the rest

Circuit Courts

New Supreme Court Fellows Begin Term

Four new U.S. Supreme Court Fellows will begin their 2023-2024 fellowships in September. The Supreme Court Fellows Program, established by the late Chief Justice Warren E. Burger in 1973, provides participants the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the federal Judiciary. Fellows work alongside top officials in the judicial branch on projects that further the goals of the Judiciary.
Judiciary News – United States Courts… Read the rest

Civil Law

Julien Gracq pour la rentrée

La forme d’une œuvre, c’est une exposition épatante consacrée à Julien Gracq par la Bibliothèque nationale de France (site Tolbiac, jusqu’au 3 septembre). L’ermite de Saint-Florent-le-Vieil (1910-2007) qui n’aimait pas « faire visiter les cuisines aux invités » a légué un fonds de quinze mille feuillets à la BnF. On admire moult manuscrits, l’écriture appliquée du bon élève (professeur, normalien, agrégé) des photographies, témoignages. Dernières volontés obligent, il faudra attendre 2027 pour connaitre les secrets de trente cahiers inédits de notules. A … Read the rest

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