Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., has named five new chairs of Judicial Conference committees and extended the term of five current chairs by one year. The appointments took effect Oct. 1.
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:
- Supreme Court flooded with prayers for relief from groups eager to promote religion (John Fritze, CNN)
- Supreme Court Could ‘Extend Coattails’ of Trump’s Immunity to Mark Meadows (Sean O’Driscoll, Newsweek)
- How Congress Gets Its Groove Back (David Dayen, The American Prospect)
- ‘Be Not Afraid’: Kavanaugh on the Importance of Being Thick-Skinned (Jimmy Hoover, The
The right to disconnect has been in the media a lot. But if we look behind the headlines, what impact is it actually going to have?
The new laws give employees a limited right to ignore work-related contact outside of working hours. This right is limited by what is reasonable. It does not:
- outlaw reasonable out-of-hours contact; or
- give employees rights to unreasonably ignore work-related communications.
Given the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) has always prohibited unreasonable additional work outside … Read the rest
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The Supreme Court on Friday denied a request from the campaign committee for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to reinstate him to New York’s ballot for the 2024 presidential election. Kennedy suspended his campaign in August and endorsed former President Donald Trump. A New York court had ordered the state’s board of elections to strike him from the ballot because Kennedy – who lives in California – had used an address in New York in his filing papers, but Kennedy … Read the rest
Sylvia Mendez was just eight when she became part of a landmark school desegregation case that helped pave the way for the famous Brown v. Board ruling a decade later. The story of Mendez v. Westminster is told in a new Moments in History video.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has recently disclosed two settled enforcement actions against Prager Metis CPAs, an audit firm linked to FTX, the now-defunct crypto trading platform. The firm’s founder and former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, is currently in custody alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. These enforcement actions highlight three important considerations for auditors and accountants: the SEC’s stance on auditor independence, the qualifications of individuals conducting audits in emerging sectors and the significance … 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. Here’s the Thursday morning read:
- San Francisco weighs bid to drop Supreme Court water case (Miranda Willson, E&E News)
- Supreme Court Should Reject Meta’s View of Risks, Investors Say (Martina Barash, Bloomberg Law)
- The Biggest Supreme Court Cases to Watch This Term (Nik Popli, Time)
- Supreme Court’s Gun Rulings Leave Baffled Judges Asking for Help (Adam Liptak, The New
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to block the execution of Marcellus Williams, who in 2001 was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1998 stabbing murder of Felicia Gayle. None of the forensic evidence found in Gayle’s house tied Williams to the scene and his lawyers argued there was reason to believe he was innocent. The lawyer who prosecuted Williams also testified that he excluded at least one potential juror because of that juror’s race.
Williams was executed … Read the rest