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Avalon Zoppo is an appellate courts reporter for The National Law Journal. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @AvalonZoppo.
February 3, 2025 | National Law Journal
Last summer, the Supreme Court held in Jarkesy v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the the SEC must seek civil fines in court rather than through in-house proceedings.
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January 31, 2025 | National Law Journal
The three-judge panel said the 1968 gun-control statute is inconsistent with Founding-era firearm regulation, pointing to a 1792 act that required 18-year-old men to enroll in the militia and use their own weapons.
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January 30, 2025 | National Law Journal
Giles will be a key adviser as Senate Republicans look to expand President Donald Trump’s mark on the judiciary even as he inherits far fewer judicial vacancies upon entering office than in his first term.
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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.
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January 28, 2025 | National Law Journal
A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that each prisoner in a multi-prisoner suit proceeding in forma pauperis must pay the full amount of a filing fee.
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January 24, 2025 | National Law Journal
On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an NLRB order directing Macy’s to pay union members for "direct or foreseeable pecuniary harms” stemming from an unlawful lockout of workers after a strike, pursuant to the board’s 2022 Thryv v. NLRB opinion.
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January 24, 2025 | National Law Journal
It only took a few hours for challenges to Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order to hit the courts.
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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.”
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January 22, 2025 | National Law Journal
Proponents have long argued that the circuit covers too much territory and too many people and its docket is unmanageable; critics say the current system isn’t broken and motivations for the split are merely political.
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January 21, 2025 | National Law Journal
Just hours after President Donald Trump signed an order attempting to end birthright citizenship, the first legal challenge against the policy was brought in a federal trial court in New Hampshire.
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