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Trump taps lawyer who argued his immunity case for solicitor general

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he intends to nominate D. John Sauer, who successfully argued in the Supreme Court earlier this year that Trump is entitled to broad immunity from prosecution, to serve as the solicitor general of the United States.

Trump made the announcement in a statement on Thursday evening, calling Sauer a “deeply accomplished, masterful appellate attorney.”

The 50-year-old Sauer has many of the credentials associated with others who have served as the country’s top … Read the rest

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Supreme Court schedules transgender rights case for December

The Supreme Court’s December argument session will feature the challenge to Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors, as well as a case by survivors of the Hungarian Holocaust seeking compensation for the seizure of the property by the Hungarian government and a dispute over the Food and Drug Administration’s efforts to bar flavored e-cigarettes that are likely to appeal to young people.

The court on Friday released the calendar for the December argument session, … Read the rest

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Supreme Court considers truck driver’s RICO case over CBD product that cost him his job

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in the case of a truck driver who was fired from his job after a wellness product marketed as free of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, caused him to fail a routine drug test. Douglas Horn sued the maker of the CBD product he took for chronic pain under federal racketeering law for economic harm.

But the companies that manufacture the product told the justices on Tuesday that because Horn’s … Read the rest

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Court declines death penalty case on jury selection

Over a written dissent by two justices, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a death penalty case asking them to weigh in on when jury selection begins and the defendant has a right to be present. The order in Sandoval v. Texas came as part of a list of orders from the justices’ private conference last week. The justices did not add any new cases to their docket for the 2024-25 term.

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Supreme Court to hear case on criminal penalties for homelessness

The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Monday in a case that one legal expert has called the “most important Supreme Court case about homelessness in at least 40 years.” The issue before the court is the constitutionality of ordinances in an Oregon town that bar people who are homeless from using blankets, pillows, or cardboard boxes for protection from the elements while sleeping within the city limits. Defending the ordinances, the city contends that the laws simply … Read the rest

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Case Closure Rates Get Longer as E-Discovery Increases

Across the country, federal defender offices are struggling with increasingly complex litigation marked by escalating electronic discovery demands. Staffing shortages and the lingering effects of the COVID pandemic have added to their challenges.
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Conference Acts to Promote Random Case Assignment

The Judicial Conference of the United States has strengthened the policy governing random case assignment, limiting the ability of litigants to effectively choose judges in certain cases by where they file a lawsuit.
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A packed courtroom for the Trump ballot case

We have known since last week (thanks to reporting by Maggie Haberman and Alan Feuer in The New York Times) that the big Republican elephant will not be in the room today when the U.S. Supreme Court takes the bench in Trump v. Anderson, about whether the Colorado Supreme Court erred in excluding former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot.

Trump is reportedly starting the day at Mar-A-Lago, then heading to Nevada this evening for … Read the rest