Gonzalo Holguin-Hernandez, Petitioner v. United States

  1. November 22, 2024

    High Court Bar's Future: Sullivan & Cromwell's Morgan Ratner

    Morgan L. Ratner has emerged as a leader of the U.S. Supreme Court bar's next generation, and she attributes her ascent to brilliant mentors, a laid-back argument style, an aversion to overconfidence and a firm commitment to clear principles in every case — even if that means reluctantly telling the chief justice, as she once did, that a hypothetical cat stuck in a tree shouldn't be saved.

  2. February 26, 2020

    Supreme Court Dispatches 5th Circ.'s Formal Appeal Rule

    The Supreme Court on Wednesday did away with a decade-old rule in the Fifth Circuit that required criminal defendants to formally object to the reasonableness of a sentence in order to preserve a lower standard of appellate review, bringing the appeals court in line with other circuits.

  3. December 06, 2019

    Up Next At High Court: Affordable Care Act Returns

    The Affordable Care Act and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board are back on the docket at the U.S. Supreme Court this week as the justices consider whether the government must cover billions in losses that insurers allegedly suffered participating in the ACA, along with the appealability of certain decisions by the PTAB.

  4. June 03, 2019

    5th Circ.'s Appeal Rule Finally Earns Top Court Review

    The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review the Fifth Circuit's longstanding view that a criminal defendant must formally object to a sentence in order to appeal its reasonableness, taking up a Mexican marijuana smuggler's case that presents a stark split in how the courts handle sentencing appeals.