COLUMBIA, South Carolina, March 9 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news: * * * Attorney General Alan Wilson defends the right of churches to be free from unnecessary litigation * (COLUMBIA, S.C.) - Attorney General Alan Wilson has joined a 23-state friend-of-the-court brief to the Supreme Court supporting churches' right to autonomy in decisions touching on religious faith, doctrine, leadership, membership, and internal affairs. "Churches have a clearly d  more

WASHINGTON, March 9 [Category: Computer Technology] -- The Computer and Communications Industry Association issued the following news release: * * * CCIA Joins Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of Fourth Amendment Protections * Washington - The Computer & Communications Industry Association and the Software & Information Industry Association filed a joint amicus brief in the Supreme Court today in support of neither party in Chatrie v. United States. The brief supports CCIA's longstandin  more

WASHINGTON, March 10 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on March 9, 2026, by Director Philip A. Luck and research intern Duc Minh Nguyet "Moon" Nguyen, both of the Economics Program and Scholl Chairs in International Business: * * * The New Containment Doctrine: How the United States Is Using Trade to Stop Digital Regulation In January 2026, the Department of State imposed visa restrictions on five European officials involved in drafting the   more

WASHINGTON, March 10 -- The Democratic National Committee posted the following news release: * * * Q4 Earnings Reports Reveal Trump's Tariffs Hiked Prices and Forced Consumers To Cut Back on Spending The earnings reports are another sign of Trump's K-shaped economy, with low-income consumers cutting back on spending * Major American companies, including Target, Best Buy, Burlington, and Walmart, expressed continued skepticism about Donald Trump's economy in their Q4 earnings reports, point  more

LOS ANGELES, California, March 9 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * Gibson Dunn Secures Major U.K. Supreme Court Win on International and English and Welsh Arbitration Law * Gibson Dunn has secured a major victory for Border Timbers Ltd in the U.K. Supreme Court on an important point of international and England and Wales law. The U.K. Supreme Court dismissed an appeal from Zimbabwe against Border Timbers after the country wa  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 10 [Category: BizLaw/Legal] -- Ropes and Gray, a law firm, issued the following news: * * * In Corporate Counsel, Alexander Simkin Discusses Rise of Greenwashing Litigation Litigation partner Alexander Simkin is featured in a new Corporate Counsel article (https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2026/03/09/greenwashing-suits-continue-to-climb-despite-uncertainty-over-how-theyll-fare/) examining the continued rise of greenwashing lawsuits targeting companies accused of mak  more

WASHINGTON, March 10 -- The National Retail Federation posted the following news release on March 9, 2026: * * * Import Cargo Volume Expected to Be Down in First Half of 2026, But Too Soon to Tell Impact from Iran Imports at major U.S. container ports are expected to remain below last year's levels for the first half of 2026 amid ongoing tariff uncertainty, but it is too soon to gauge the impact of the conflict in Iran, according to the Global Port Tracker report released today by the Nationa  more

MANILA, Philippines, March 9 -- The Supreme Court of the Philippines issued the following news release: * * * SC Affirms PHP 2 Million Fine Against Company for Incomplete Audited Financial Statements The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the PHP 2 million fine imposed on Abacus Coal Exploration and Development Corporation (Abacus Coal) for failing to fully disclose the true value of its assets in its Audited Financial Statements (AFS). In a Decision written by Associate Justice Maria Filomena D.  more

MANILA, Philippines, March 10 -- The Supreme Court of the Philippines issued the following news release: * * * Chief Justice Gesmundo Swears in PALS Board of Trustees and Officers Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo administered the oath of office to the Philippine Association of Law Schools (PALS) Board of Trustees and Officers for 2026 - 2028 on March 9, 2026, at the Supreme Court (SC) En Banc Session Hall in Manila. PALS is a national organization that represents law schools across the co  more

CARLISLE, Pennsylvania, March 9 -- Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law posted the following news: * * * Professor Samantha J. Prince submits amicus curiae brief with SCOTUS * CARLISLE, Pa.-Professor Samantha J. Prince, alongside practicing attorney co-authors Jon-Michael Dougherty and Kurt G. Kastorf, submitted an amicus curiae brief in support of the petitioner's request for a writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court case King v. United States (No. 25-856). The brief urges   more

SANTA MONICA, California, March 10 -- Rand issued the following commentary on March 9, 2026, by James Murphy, computational social scientist and policy researcher, and Andrew R. Morral, Greenwald Family Chair in Gun Policy and senior behavioral scientist: * * * Challenges and Prospects for Estimating Joint Effects of Gun Policies Criminal justice researchers often estimate the joint effects of multiple gun policies, given the challenges of isolating the effects of individual policies. In esti  more

WASHINGTON, March 10 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, issued the following news release on March 9, 2026: * * * Ranking Member Markey Demands Full Transparency About the Cost of Trump's Illegal Iran War Sources project gas prices will skyrocket to $4 per gallon as Trump's illegal war continues * Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labo  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Member Markey Renews Call for Tariff Refund Process, Demands Investigation into Wall Street Tariff Refund Schemes RM Markey: "Large businesses can afford the massive legal fees associated with years-long cases...small businesses cannot." * Ranking Member Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today sent a letter to Tr  more