Lawyers trying to save an Obama-era program that defers the deportation of certain undocumented young adults are strategically directing their arguments to one man: Chief Justice John Roberts. They have found ammunition in his own words, from a Supreme Court ruling last June, when he sided wit...
It was a fight Roberts would continue decades later, when he replaced Rehnquist as chief justice and authored the majority opinion in a landmark case gutting the VRA in 2013. Fifty years after the passage of the landmark civil rights law, and 35 years after he first worked so hard to di...
George Washington appointed Jay the country’s first chief justice, in which capacity he was instrumental in shaping Supreme Court procedures in its formative years. His most notable case was Chisholm v. Georgia, in which Jay and the court affirmed the subordination of the states to the federal...
Prester John, legendary Christian ruler of the East, popularized in medieval chronicles and traditions as a hoped-for ally against the Muslims. Believed to be a Nestorian (i.e., a member of an independent Eastern Christian church that did not accept the authority of the patriarch of Constantino...
Jeff John Roberts – Fortune Here’s something you don’t see every day: a federal judge choosing to punish lawyers for lying to the court. Rarer still-so rare I can’t recall another example-is a judge choosing to impose such a punishment, in the form of sanctions, on lawyers...
As firms consider their implementation approach, many are focusing on the importance of achieving same-day affirmation. Our latest analysis shows that in March 2024, 74.95% of transactions were affirmed by the DTC cutoff time of 9:00PM ET on trade date, an increase from 74.5% in February. ...