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The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The Supreme Court continues to churn through its relist rolls. True to our prediction that the case was a “likely grant,” the court granted review in one-time relist Noem v. Al Otro Lado, which presents the question whether a noncitizen who is stopped on the Mexican side of the border has nevertheless “arrive[d] in the United States” and thereby become eligible to apply for asylum. But most of the relist action was on the negative side of the ledger. The court denied…
Home Daily News Clio completes $1B acquisition of vLex and… Practice Technology Clio completes $1B acquisition of vLex and announces $5B company valuation By Amanda Robert November 10, 2025, 11:04 am CST Jack Newton, the CEO and founder of Clio, a legal technology company, speaks in October 2024 at the 2024 Clio Cloud Conference in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Victor Li) Legal technology leader Clio announced Monday that it completed its $1 billion acquisition of vLex, a legal intelligence and global research platform that includes Vincent AI. Clio, a cloud-based practice management software company, also announced Monday that it is…
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On Nov. 13, a small team of advocates for people with disabilities stepped through White House security and into the narrow, bustling corridors of the West Wing, unsure what to expect. They’d managed to get a short meeting with James Blair, who is one of President Donald Trump’s deputy chiefs of staff, in the hopes of preventing a planned policy change. In recent weeks, ProPublica and The Washington Post had reported that officials at the Social Security Administration were working on a proposed regulation that could result in at least 830,000 mostly older blue-collar workers being denied disability benefits. The…
Volodymyr Zelensky will speak to Donald Trump after the US presented Ukraine with a draft peace plan to end the war with Russia.The plan was reportedly drafted by US special envoy Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev, without Ukraine’s involvement. In a statement, Zelensky’s office said the US believed the draft plan could “help reinvigorate diplomacy” and added that Ukraine had “agreed to work on the plan’s provisions in a way that would bring about a just end to the war”.Kyiv supported “all substantive proposals capable of bringing genuine peace closer,” the statement said. The Ukrainians did not…
Listen to this articleEstimated 3 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website has been changed to contradict the longtime scientific conclusion that vaccines do not cause autism, spurring outrage among a number of public health and autism experts.The CDC “vaccine safety” webpage was updated on Wednesday, saying “the statement ‘Vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim.”The change is the latest move by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to revisit — and foster uncertainty about — long-held…
Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Although many criticisms have been made of the Supreme Court’s rulings on its emergency docket, one that has not received enough attention is the court’s failure to follow well-established principles for staying a preliminary injunction, which – while it may sound technical – has enormous importance. This has been evident in…
Home Daily News Did alleged sham hiring by SCOTUSblog founder… Criminal Justice Did alleged sham hiring by SCOTUSblog founder Goldstein constitute tax evasion? Judge will decide By Debra Cassens Weiss November 10, 2025, 12:29 pm CST Indicted SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein can’t sell his home to pay his defense attorneys, a federal judge ruled last week as she denied six of his pretrial motions in the tax evasion case against him. (Photo by Alex Brandon/The Associated Press) Indicted SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein can’t sell his home to pay his defense attorneys, a federal judge ruled last week as she denied…
Emirates highlights an extra busy December with over 2.3 million departures and 2.5 million arrivalsIf you thought Dubai was busy now, think again. This December, Emirates is expecting a jaw-dropping surge of travellers, with over 2.3 million departures and 2.5 million arrivals through DXB. Yep, that’s nearly five million people moving in and out of the city in just one month – and this is just over the next few weekends.Emirates has strongly recommended that customers plan their travel carefully, from considering the likelihood of additional traffic on the way to the airport to a bustling airport.*Emirates to introduce free,…
After a decade of planning, New York City broke ground in September on a $218 million plan to prevent flooding in the portside neighborhood of Red Hook in Brooklyn, even though experts say it will provide inadequate protection from storms. The project also will provide less protection than other city flood prevention projects, including a new $3.5 billion upscale development on the edge of the neighborhood. Over a decade ago, Superstorm Sandy killed 44 people and caused $19 billion in damage across New York City, swamping homes and destroying businesses in Red Hook. The city responded, pumping billions of dollars…