Nov/Dec

Nadia Murad is a 26-year-old Yazidi woman who was captured by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS). She was a victim of war crimes and has refused to accept the social norm that women should remain silent and ashamed of the abuses to which they have been subjected.

Emoji and emoticons have migrated from personal texts and social media to business and to the courtroom—are you prepared to work with them?

In Federalist Paper No. 83, Alexander Hamilton wrote: The friends and adversaries of the plan of the convention, if they agree in nothing else, concur at least in the value they set upon the trial by jury: Or if there is any difference between them, it consists in this, the former regard it as a valuable safeguard to liberty, the latter represent it as the very palladium of free government.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and I share, in some respects, a similar background, as both of us hale from the Bronx, N.Y., were born in the 1950s, are lifelong New York Yankees fans, and practiced law in the Southern District of New York.

Few things are more frustrating than knowing you're right but there's nothing you can do about it.

In 2017, the Supreme Court overruled VE Holding Corp. v. Johnson Gas Appliance Co., a 27-year-old precedent holding in that the use of the word "reside" in the patent venue statute, § 1400, should be interpreted the same way as courts interpret its use in the general venue statute, § 1391.

It was a habeas appeal. My student and I had rehearsed the oral argument several times and I thought my student was prepared.

In The Federal Lawyer’s May/June issue, we discussed the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari in Kisor v. Wilkie, a case involving the Auer deference doctrine and how it fits into the traditional canons of regulatory interpretation.

Although we suspected that something might be amiss, we were utterly unprepared for the revelation that concealed collusion had resulted in our denial of jurisdiction in federal court.

In an action under the U.S. False Claims Act, the evidence may indicate substantial damages derived from the defendant’s operations.