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Avalon Zoppo is an appellate courts reporter for The National Law Journal. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @AvalonZoppo.
January 29, 2025 | National Law Journal
President Donald Trump's firing of Gwynne Wilcox spurred the now former NLRB member to say she will be "pursuing all legal avenues" to challenge her removal from the five-member board three years before her term was set to expire, according to media reports.
By Avalon Zoppo
1 minute read
January 23, 2025 | National Law Journal
"He pardoned people because they were doing his bidding, which was to break the law," said former federal appeals court Judge Thomas Vanaskie. "That's an abuse of the pardon power in my judgment. I think it really undermines the rule of law.”
By Avalon Zoppo
1 minute read
December 11, 2024 | National Law Journal
“One of the things that is really getting lost in this is who's really being affected outside of the judges themselves," said U.S. District Judge Troy Nunley of the Eastern District of California. "It’s really the litigant. It's an issue with people having access to the courts and being able to have their cases heard in a timely fashion.”
By Avalon Zoppo
1 minute read
December 9, 2024 | National Law Journal
“At this stage in the proceedings, Appellants have alleged plausibly that they intend to engage in speech proscribed, at least arguably, by a recently enacted, focused regulation," Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston wrote for the panel.
By Avalon Zoppo
1 minute read
December 9, 2024 | National Law Journal
Texas appellate attorney Raffi Melkonian, who has been called the Dean of Appellate Twitter, said he began seeing more ads, bots and hateful content on X in recent years, to the point that he said he has blocked dozens of accounts a day.
By Avalon Zoppo
1 minute read
November 7, 2024 | National Law Journal
"We have always been adamant that the Senate must confirm all of President Biden's nominees and fill every possible vacancy, regardless of who wins the election," said Jake Faleschini, of Alliance for Justice.
By Avalon Zoppo | Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman
5 minute read
November 6, 2024 | National Law Journal
Recent research supports the idea that ideology plays a role in judges' "strategically retiring," meaning leaving the bench when the party of the president who appointed them controls the White House.
By Avalon Zoppo
6 minute read
October 30, 2024 | Law.com
"Being privy to the [Bin Laden] operation and being at the Pentagon in the basement, watching and listening to it unfold that day, was one of my proudest achievements, particularly because I'm a New Yorker, and I was present in Manhattan on September 11, 2001," Jeh Johnson said.
By Avalon Zoppo
10 minute read
October 7, 2024 | New York Law Journal
The types of candidates a President Kamala Harris or Donald Trump put forward will depend largely on which party controls the Senate, observers say.
By Avalon Zoppo
8 minute read
September 16, 2024 | National Law Journal
Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan pressed TikTok on whether a company based outside of the United States can bring a First Amendment challenge to a federal regulation.
By Avalon Zoppo
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