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Aug 24, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Trane Robinson
The “maxim that wrongdoers may not profit from their wrongs” is having a big week at the Sixth Circuit. In two cases—one about ERISA, the other about restitution—sons betrayed their mothers for financial gain. The facts in these cases are devastating, though the legal issues are fascinating nonetheless. In short, the murderer lost, but the fraudster won. ERISA cases, let’s face it, are not known for intrigue. Standard Insurance Co. v. Guyis the outlier.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Trane Robinson
In Department of Education v. Louisiana, the Supreme Court issued a rare August opinion to maintain two preliminary injunctions that block the Department of Education’s new rule. That rule expands Title IX to prevent sexual-orientation and gender-identity discrimination.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Trane Robinson
A Tennessee law prevents changing one’s designation of sex on his or her birth certificate, even if that person has changed gender identity on other official documents as in life. In Gore v. Lee, the Sixth Circuit affirmed this law’s constitutionality. This decision is best understood in tandem with another gender-rights case from Tennessee: L.W. v. Skrmetti. Last year in L.W., the court upheld Tennessee’s limitation on minors’ ability to obtain sex-transition intervention.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Trane Robinson
A Tennessee law prevents changing one’s designation of sex on his or her birth certificate, even if that person has changed gender identity on other official documents as in life. In Gore v. Lee, the Sixth Circuit affirmed this law’s constitutionality. This decision is best understood in tandem with another gender-rights case from Tennessee: L.W. v. Skrmetti. Last year in L.W., the court upheld Tennessee’s limitation on minors’ ability to obtain sex-transition intervention.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Trane Robinson |Danielle Bereznay |Corbin Carter |Taylor White
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has this week reappointed Claudia Salomon as President of the International Court of Arbitration for a second three-year term, commencing 1 July 2024. Ms Salomon will lead the Court which includes 191 members from 119 jurisdictions. Elections by the ICC World Council, held on 11 June in Paris, were conducted in accordance with the provisions set out in the ICC constitution and statutes of the ICC Court.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Trane Robinson
The Supreme Court’s recent spate of high-profile decisions gives Court watchers much to process. At this blog, we hope to explore many of those decisions as summer progresses. In the meantime, we note a couple details from the Court’s Order List this week following its “clean-up conference.”I count 30 cases the Court granted, summarily vacated, and remanded to the courts of appeals (GVR’d). These were cases similar enough to Loper Bright, Rahimi, Erlinger v.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Trane Robinson
Congratulations are in order to the forty-something law clerks that swore in to the Sixth Circuit bar Wednesday. That was a prelude to the court’s en banc argument on campaign finance restrictions in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC. The Committee challenges the constitutionality of part of the Federal Election Campaign Act that places limits on political parties’ “coordinated party expenditures.” Notably, the en banc court is taking the first pass on the constitutional question.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Trane Robinson
Congratulations are in order to the forty-something law clerks that swore in to the Sixth Circuit bar Wednesday. That was a prelude to the court’s en banc argument on campaign finance restrictions in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC. The Committee challenges the constitutionality of part of the Federal Election Campaign Act that places limits on political parties’ “coordinated party expenditures.”Notably, the en banc court is taking the first pass on the constitutional question.
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May 15, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Trane Robinson
Today, the Sixth Circuit took the relatively rare step of granting a criminal defendant’s release from prison before deciding the merits of his case. That followed last week’s oral argument in the high-profile criminal appeal of Alexander “P.G.” Sittenfeld, the former Cincinnati City Councilperson. Sittenfeld’s counsel closed his rebuttal argument by renewing his request for release from prison pending appeal, in advance of the Court issuing its opinion.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Trane Robinson
Last week, the Ohio Supreme Court published a new and improved writing manual. The Third Edition is “a comprehensive guide . . . designed to improve the readability of opinions issued by, and briefs filed in,” Ohio’s courts. The unquestionable headline is that the new manual abandons the cumbersome triple-parallel-citation format of old in favor of citing just the Ohio online reporter, like so: Smith v. Ohio State Univ., 2024-Ohio-764, ¶ 2.
