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Giuliani’s position "is wrong as a matter of law," U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wrote in her Sunday order

Supreme Court justices appeared divided over Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy deal Monday, questioning whether it can immunize the Sackler family from civil lawsuits for their role in the opioid crisis. Described by experts as among the most important corporate bankruptcy cases in decades, the dispute will dictate the fate of the years-in-the-making settlement and more broadly…

Supreme Court justices expressed concern Monday over the federal government's objection to a bankruptcy deal struck by Purdue Pharma that would release the family who owns the company from liability in lawsuits related to the opioid crisis.

Last week, SCOTUS heard oral argument in Jarkesy v. SEC (BTW, pronounced Járkəzē, according to his counsel). As you may have heard, that case is…

In the summer of 2020, then-Vice President Mike Pence told an audience gathered on the White House lawn that Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration had “modified or rolled back 239 different regulations in over 100 professions.” While there’s good reasons to question that statement, one of his attempts at deregulation since then just got rolled back by a Superior Court judge in Anchorage.

By: Jack Fitzhenry / November 30, 2023 Read more at https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/11/30/supreme-court-must-decide-whether-right-to-jury-trial-disappears-in-federal-agencies/ “We're talking about the Seventh Amendment and the right to a jury trial, and that—that is an important and ancient right, too," Justice Neil Gorsuch said Wednesday during oral arguments in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy. (Photo: Rich Legg/E+/Getty Images) COMMENTARY BY Jack Fitzhenry Jack&h...

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On November 29, 2023, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a critically important administrative law case, Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, No. 22-859. This case...

Wednesday’s argument in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy was oddly distant from the decision of the lower court and the briefs and arguments of the parties. The decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit – vigorously defended by George Jarkesy, the target of long-running

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands ... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” - James Madison, Federalist 47