A plaintiff “prevails” for the purpose of awarding attorney fees in 42 U.S.C. §1983 actions when a court conclusively resolves a claim by granting enduring judicial relief on the merits that materially alters the legal relationship between the parties. ...
“We’re not going to allow the elites in the swamp to impose their values on West Virginia citizens,” said state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. Meanwhile, in Parents Protecting Our Children v. Eau Claire Area School District, a group of Wisconsin parents want the Supreme Court to overt...
steam has strongly pushed for the trial to take place this year. Trump, meanwhile, has repeatedly sought to delay the case. If Trump were to defeat President Joe Biden, he could potentially try to use his position as head of the executive branch to order a new attorney general to dismiss...
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The Biden administration already has dropped the Yale suit and almost certainly will take Harvard’s side at the Supreme Court if the case goes forward. The lead attorney on the appeal is William Consovoy, who also represented Trump in his unsuccessful bid to shield his tax returns from the...
Following two consecutive terms in which the Supreme Court rolled back the nationwide right to abortion,expanded Second Amendment rightsandbarred higher education institutionsfrom considering race as a factor during the admissions process, the justices are hearing numerous cases this year invol...
NEW DELHI, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Indian government's chief legal advisor and its primary lawyer in the country's top court, Attorney General K.K. Venugopal, Tuesday said the issue between Chief Justice of India (CJI) and four dissenting judges of the Supreme Court was yet to be resolved...
Breyer, whom she worked for as a Supreme Court clerk, Jackson will also be the only currently sitting justice that has experience as either a trial court judge or a defense attorney. And while her background is unique, the educational journey Jackson took to the high court was somewhat ...
Joan Biskupic, CNN's Chief Supreme Court analyst, has covered the Supreme Court for more than twenty-five years and has written several books on the judiciary. She is the author of the recently published Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and its Historic ...
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