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I n 2021, I served on President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court Commission and submitted a report to the administration discussing potential reforms. Now that President Biden has endorsed some of ...
Several states also have exceptions to the American rule in both statutes and case law. For example, in California, the Consumers Legal Remedies Act allows plaintiffs to recover attorney's fees, [7] and in insurance bad faith cases, a policyholder may be able to recover attorney's fees as a separate component of damages. [8]
The U.S. Supreme Court’s term came to an end last month as the conservative majority released a slew of opinions that sparked widespread controversy and renewed the debate around court packing ...
Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. 146 (2019), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court considered whether the excessive fines clause of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment applies to state and local governments.
The 2023 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 2, 2023, and concluded October 6, 2024. The table below illustrates which opinion was filed by each justice in each case and which justices joined each opinion.
The ruling came on the final day of the Supreme Court's term that began in October. Swipe fees, also called interchange fees, reimburse banks for costs involved in offering debit cards.
Congress enacted the Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Awards Act of 1976 in response to the Supreme Court decision in Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. Wilderness Society, 421 U.S. 240 (1975). There, the Court reaffirmed the “American Rule” that each party to a lawsuit should ordinarily bear its own attorney's fees.
The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. U.S. Term Limits claimed that Amendment 73 was "a permissible exercise of state power under the Elections Clause". [4] Both the trial court and the Arkansas Supreme Court agreed with Hill, declaring Amendment 73 ...