Zero Hour Near For the Courts

Headlines • Zero Hour Near For the Courts • Colleagues Recall Chief Justice's Early Days • Toyota Plaintiffs Target Vehicle Electronics • Striving for Civility as Toyota Cases Go to Trial • D.C. Appeals Court Faces Challenge in Adoption Case • Justices' Order: Read This Brief • Federal Government: Closed Until Further Notice • INADMISSIBLE: D.C. Judge Smacks House, DOJ Lawyers • Sex Trade Court Holds Hope for the Oft-Blamed • Ethics Guardians Are Falling Behind Zero Hour Near For the Courts As the federal government shutdown grinds on, the worst is yet to come for lawyers and their clients, federal agencies and the judiciary. The nation's federal courts expect by October 11 to exhaust funding reserves that so far kept workers at their desks. For full ALM coverage of the shutdown, click here. Read More » Colleagues Recall Chief Justice's Early Days During the 1990s and early 2000s, John Roberts was widely viewed as one of the best Supreme Court advocates of his time. His skills as a litigator still serve him on the high court. Read More » Toyota Plaintiffs Target Vehicle Electronics The sudden-acceleration litigation against Toyota shifts to Oklahoma on Monday, as plaintiffs attorneys for the first time blame vehicle electronics for a crash that injured the driver and killed a front-seat passenger. Read More » Striving for Civility as Toyota Cases Go to Trial After paying more than $1.6 billion to resolve claims by consumers and shareholders, Toyota faces the first major trials blaming injuries and deaths on alleged defects associated with sudden acceleration in its vehicles. Read More » D.C. Appeals Court Faces Challenge in Adoption Case A decision this summer by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in an adoption case has put two young children in limbo and raised questions about how judges decide what's in a child's best interest in a fight over custody. Read More » Justices' Order: Read This Brief U.S. Supreme Court justices have mixed feelings about the increasing number of amicus curiae briefs filed with the court, many of which go unread. But a brief filed in a case set for argument October 9 struck the fancy of enough justices that the court ordered lawyers for both sides to read it and be ready to discuss it at argument. Read More » Closed Until Further Notice For the first time since 1996, the U.S. government has ground to a halt. The House of Representatives and the Senate are at odds over funding and all signs point to a continuing bitter fight. The National Law Journal and its sister publications at ALM will provide coverage throughout the shutdown. Read More » INADMISSIBLE: D.C. Judge Smacks House, DOJ Lawyers U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson needed only one week to deliver cutting ripostes to both sides of one of the most closely watched separation-of-powers cases in Washington. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » Sex Trade Court Holds Hope for the Oft-Blamed The New York State Judiciary announced a groundbreaking Human Trafficking Intervention Initiative last month to address the state's festering problem of sex trafficking. The effort's linchpin is simple: Treat trafficking victims like victims — even if arrested for prostitution. Read More » Ethics Guardians Are Falling Behind Legal ethics boards are trying to micromanage the use of the Internet by lawyers, rather than target actual deceptive practices that are obvious on their face. Read More »

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