Showing 1–50 of 1125 items published in 2020, most recent first.
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: My Joe Biden Story (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times) What’s To Come For The Supreme Court (Here and Now, WBUR) The Next Big Patent Eligibility Push Is On at the Supreme Court (Scott Graham, The National Law Journal) Happy new year!
Twelve days after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with a plan to change how census numbers are used to determine congressional representation, the Census Bureau confirmed that it would not meet a key year-end deadline to provide state-by-state population counts to the president.
The Supreme Court on Thursday released the calendar for its February argument session, which begins on Feb. 22, 2021.
Chief Justice John Roberts issued his annual year-end report on Thursday, and the theme – perhaps unsurprisingly – was the coronavirus pandemic.
Few people get the chance to watch an oral argument at the Supreme Court. Art Lien is one of them. As an artist who has been sketching the court for more than four decades, Lien has attended – and studied – hundreds of arguments.
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Trump Campaign Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Biden’s Wisconsin Win (Jess Bravin, The Wall Street Journal) Religion, Abortion, Guns And Race.
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Second half of SCOTUS term may bring the temperature down compared to its feverish first (Mark Walsh, ABA Journal) Justices Staring Down Another Slow Term Despite Head Start (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Amy Coney Barrett steers the Supreme Court to the right, but not toward President Trump (Richard Wolf, USA Today) A Cheerleader’s Vulgar Message Prompts a First Amendment Showdown (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that Rebecca Anne Womeldorf has been named the new reporter of decisions. She succeeds Christine Luchok Fallon, who retired in September. Womeldorf will begin her new job on Jan. 13, 2021.
This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to delve further into contentious issues of immigration policy. One group of cases challenges the Trump administration’s attempt to crack down on so-called sanctuary cities.
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Color of Suspicion: Part 4 in Reuters investigation on qualified immunity (Andrew Januta, Andrew Chung, Jaimi Dowdell & Lawrence Hurley, Reuters) States Square Off Over Taxing Remote Workers’ Income (Jimmy Vielkind,
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Justice Breyer on Whether Judges Get More Liberal as They Get Older (Dahlia Lithwick, Slate) What Will It Take to Get a Black Woman on the Supreme Court?
As the Supreme Court winds down for the holiday break, one thing that has not slowed is the flow of litigation arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. In November and December, the court handled seven emergency requests for relief related to COVID-19, six involving challenges by religious institutions to state crowd-restriction orders and one involving exposure of prisoners to the coronavirus.
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Supreme Court Justices Can Get Vaccinated Now. The Rest Of The Courts Are On Their Own.
Once considered taboo, court packing is now a topic at presidential debates, the subject of numerous op-eds and a trending hashtag on Twitter. Proponents of expanding the Supreme Court point out that the Constitution leaves the number of justices to Congress’ discretion, and that Congress has altered the court’s size many times in the past.
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Trump campaign brings new U.S. Supreme Court challenge over Pennsylvania’s 2020 election (Jonathan Lai, The Philadelphia Inquirer) Supreme Court Puts Off Ruling on Whether Census Tally Should Include Immigrants in
Since 2011, there has been “an explosion” of amicus briefs at the Supreme Court, according to Arnold & Porter’s Anthony Franze and R. Reeves Anderson, who study the issue and recently wrote an article examining the decade-long trend.
The court is in recess for the holidays.
The Supreme Court on Thursday turned down a request from a Christian school in Kentucky and the state’s attorney general to allow in-person classes at faith-based schools, stressing that most schools in Kentucky will close for the winter holidays on Friday, Dec. 18, and are slated to reopen on Jan. 4.
The Supreme Court is expected to release one or more opinions in argued cases at 10 a.m. EST. The most time-sensitive pending case is Trump v. New York, the challenge to the president’s plan to change the way that House seats are apportioned among the states by excluding people living in the country illegally from the census data used in the apportionment formula.
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that it was too early to resolve the legality of the Trump administration’s plan to exclude people who are in the country illegally from the state-by-state breakdown used to allocate seats in the House of Representatives.
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Thank the Supreme Court, for Now (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times) Supreme Court And Big-Time College Sports Meet For Potentially Big-Time Decision (Nina Totenberg, NPR) New Mexico Prevails Over Texas in
The Supreme Court decided Texas v. New Mexico on Monday, ruling in New Mexico’s favor in an interstate water dispute over the Pecos River. Texas filed the case directly in the Supreme Court, invoking the court’s original jurisdiction in cases where one state sues another … just as it did on Dec. 8 when it sued four “swing” states over how they conducted the presidential election.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday morning added three new cases to its merits docket, agreeing to hear arguments in a pair of consolidated cases in which the justices will decide whether colleges should be able to provide greater compensation to student-athletes, as well as an appeal from the credit-reporting giant TransUnion, which is challenging a class action lawsuit against it.
The justices on Wednesday added three new cases, for a total of two hours of argument time, to their list of cases slated for oral argument this term.
Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Supreme Court won’t revive Kansas voting law requiring proof of citizenship (Robert Barnes, The Washington Post) Supreme Court takes sides in interstate river flow fight (Pamela King, E&E News) Supreme Court puts
The Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed out a pair of lower-court rulings that had permitted states to enforce COVID-related restrictions at worship services.
The Supreme Court’s opinion Thursday in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association firmly rejected an attack on state statutes that protect pharmacies from the prescription-reimbursement intermediaries that health-insurance providers use to administer their prescription-drug programs.
After issuing the term’s first four opinions in argued cases last Thursday — all of which were unanimous — the Supreme Court may release more opinions on Monday at 10 a.m. EST. A list of all the cases that have been argued so far this term is available here.
The Supreme Court issued orders on Monday from the justices’ private conference last week. The justices had already granted one case, involving class certification in a securities-fraud case, from that conference on Friday, so it was no surprise that they did not add any new cases to their merits docket for this term.
On Monday, the court released additional orders from the Dec. 11 conference, in which the justices did not grant any new cases for oral argument. The court also released opinions in Shinn v. Kayer and Texas v. New Mexico.
The Supreme Court on Friday rebuffed Texas’ request to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in four states – Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – that provided key electoral votes to President-elect Joe Biden.
Alfred Bourgeois became the 10th person to be put to death by the federal government this year, after the Supreme Court on Friday evening denied his application for a delay of the execution. Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor indicated that they would have granted the application.
The Supreme Court on Thursday evening declined to postpone the execution of Brandon Bernard, who was sentenced to death for his involvement in the carjacking and murder of two youth ministers, Todd and Stacie Bagley, in Fort Hood, Texas.
In their final conference of 2020, the justices will meet privately on Friday to discuss pending petitions seeking the court’s review. A list of noteworthy cases slated to be discussed is available here.
Oyez has posted the aligned audio and transcripts from the December 2020 oral arguments at the Supreme Court. The court heard argument this month in: Trump v. New York Van Buren v. United States Nestlé USA v. Doe I CIC Services v. Internal Revenue Service Edwards v. Vannoy Hungary v. Simon Germany v. Philipp Facebook v. Duguid Henry Schein v. Archer and White Sales Collins v. Mnuchin
Texas’ attempt to bring an original action challenging the election results in four states is not a serious legal claim in a legitimate procedural posture, for reasons that many people have already given and that I will not repeat here.
The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously reinstated the rape convictions of three former servicemen in United States v. Briggs and two consolidated cases.
This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, more First Amendment challenges to pandemic-related restrictions and whether a criminal defendant can “open the door” to rebuttal testimony that otherwise would violate the Sixth Amendment.
Court-appointed amicus Aaron Nielson defends the FHFA’s structure (Art Lien) The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Wednesday in a high-stakes battle over the regulation of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the wake of the 2008 housing crisis.
It’s a busy Thursday at the Supreme Court. In the morning, the court may release opinions. In the afternoon, responses are due from four states whose election results are being challenged in a long-shot case filed by Texas.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday that three Muslim men who say that they were put on the “no fly” list after they refused to become FBI informants can sue the FBI agents who put them there for money damages.
The Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a challenge to a Delaware constitutional provision requiring that appointments to the state’s major courts reflect a political balance.
Four states – Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – urged the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon to reject Texas’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Bryan Garner argues over telephone for Noah Duguid (Art Lien) On Tuesday, for the second time this year, the Supreme Court heard oral argument on the federal law that bans robocalls to cellphones.
The first of two cases argued Monday, Republic of Hungary v. Simon, explored how courts should evaluate foreign-policy concerns in deciding whether to exercise jurisdiction over disputes involving foreign countries — and how much to defer to congressional choices in those decisions.