Supreme Court

The Supreme Court decision in Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP, 131 S. Ct. 863 (2011), creates a new, but ambiguously defined, group of employees protected from retaliation following the filing of a complaint with the EEOC, according to V. Latosha Dexter, SPHR, an employment law attorney at Rainey, Kizer, Reviere & Bell, P.L.C. (Rainey Kizer).

Impact of Obamacare on Healthcare Providers Although current public attention is focused on the individual mandate issue now under U.S. Supreme Court review, other provisions of the Affordable Care Act will have a greater impact on health care providers, according to Angela Youngberg, Leader of the Healthcare Practice Group at Rainey, Kizer, Reviere & Bell PLC (Rainey Kizer).

Buckingham Attorney will Serve Three-year Term Through 2014 Amanda Quan, an attorney at Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, has been appointed by the Supreme Court of Ohio as a member of the Commission on Continuing Legal Education (CLE). The three-year appointment, which was announced by the Supreme Court on Jan. 19, begins immediately and runs through Dec. 31, 2014.

The law firm of Looper Reed & McGraw is proud to announce Sofia Adrogué has been appointed to the Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee. Adrogué is one of only 52 lawyers, including many of the state’s finest jurists, selected to serve on this prestigious committee. She will serve a three-year term, which began this month.

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP is pleased to announce that U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts has appointed partner Kevin C. Newsom to the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules.

TechFreedom filed an amicus brief today urging the Supreme Court to strike down a Vermont law restricting the use of data for marketing name brand pharmaceuticals to doctors — a practice called “detailing.” The Second Circuit struck down the law last November as an unconstitutional restriction on the commercial speech rights of companies that process data about doctors’ prescription histories,

Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, PLC Announces That Andrea L. Albert And Todd M. LaDouceur Have Been Elected Directors Of The Firm Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, PLC, a Gulf South Regional defense firm, is pleased to announce that Andrea L. Albert and Todd M. LaDouceur have been elected Directors of the firm.

GDHM appellate lawyers have asked the United States Supreme Court to reverse a decision from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals allowing the City of San Marcos, Texas, to ban the public display of an “art car” on private property.