Licensing, Litigation & Appeals Insights

Briefly: In Vox, Ian Millhiser highlights a recent poll from the Pew Research Center that found that 66% of Democrats said Supreme Court appointments are “very important” to their vote in the 2020 presidential election, compared with just 61% of Republicans who said the issue is very important. The poll suggests that the “perception that …

Wednesday round-up
By: James Romoser
on September 2, 2020 at 11:00 am
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Briefly: In The Economist, Steven Mazie reports on the Supreme Court’s role in shaping the outcome of the 2020 election, which is already seeing a record number of voting-related lawsuits. “Many of this year’s voting quarrels are bound to end up at the Supreme Court, where the conservative majority has shown little interest in expanding …

Tuesday round-up
By: James Romoser
on September 1, 2020 at 1:05 pm
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Deanne Maynard, co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice, has argued 14 cases before the Supreme Court since her first oral argument in 2004. On this week’s episode of SCOTUStalk, Amy Howe interviews Maynard on how she prepares to argue before the justices, how she pivots away from hostile questions, and why …

SCOTUS spotlight: Deanne Maynard on ‘split-second decisions’ as an oral advocate
By: SCOTUStalk
on August 31, 2020 at 9:05 pm
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Briefly: In USA Today, Richard Wolf examines how the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this summer in June Medical Services v. Russo, striking down a restrictive Louisiana abortion law, is affecting other abortion litigation in the lower courts. Wolf reports that “[o]fficials in Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Oklahoma have in recent weeks argued that the high …

Monday round-up
By: James Romoser
on August 31, 2020 at 11:43 am
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