Showing 1–50 of 55 items published in August 2020, most recent first.
Briefly: In USA Today, Richard Wolf examines how the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this summer in June Medical Services v. Russo, striking down a restrictive Louisiana abortion law, is affecting other abortion litigation in the lower courts.
Deanne Maynard, co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Appellate and Supreme Court practice, has argued 14 cases before the Supreme Court since her first oral argument in 2004.
Briefly: In an article published by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, SCOTUSblog Books Editor Ronald Collins examines the Supreme Court’s recent decision on robocalls in Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants and argues that the decision “turned the First Amendment
The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to reinstate a requirement for patients seeking abortions to visit doctor’s offices in order to obtain one of the drugs used in medication-induced abortions — a requirement that opponents say subjects patients to unnecessary risk during the
This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to decide the constitutionality of a Kansas law on voter registration and a California law on union organizing. Schwab v. Fish involves a Kansas law that requires documentary proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday night declined to block the execution, scheduled for Wednesday, of Lezmond Mitchell, the only Native American on federal death row. The justices, without any noted dissents, denied two emergency requests from Mitchell seeking to postpone the execution.
The federal government is scheduled to proceed Wednesday with the execution of Lezmond Mitchell after the Supreme Court, on Tuesday night, denied two emergency requests from Mitchell to halt the execution.
Briefly: At CNN, Dan Berman and Caroline Kelly report on a new emergency request to the Supreme Court from Montana’s secretary of state, who asked the justices on Monday “to intervene in a fight over whether the Green Party can be on the state ballot this fall.” The World and Everything In It
After last week’s Democratic National Convention, and with Republicans set to take their turn this week, news coverage of the Supreme Court has focused on the ways the court is — or is not — emerging as an issue in the presidential election.
The Supreme Court on Monday expanded the amount of time for oral argument in the constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act that the justices will hear this fall. In a brief order, the court granted a request from the House of Representatives to lengthen the Nov. 10 argument.
The Trump administration said it will ask the Supreme Court to reinstate a death sentence for one of the Boston Marathon bombers, and the administration also filed a cert petition in a case involving President Donald Trump’s practice of blocking people on Twitter.
Steven Green is the Fred H. Paulus professor of law and director of the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy at Willamette University College of Law. It is rare for two books on the same subject – and written by some of the nation’s leading scholars – to be published not only in the same year but practically in the same month.
The Supreme Court released its November argument calendar, and a new federal death penalty case made its way to the court.
This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to weigh in on a pair of disputes with environmental implications. Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association v. Ross involves the intersection of two federal statutes and a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean containing three deep-sea canyons and four underwater mountains.
Thirty years ago, President George H.W. Bush made the surprising choice to nominate the enigmatic David H. Souter to the Supreme Court. As Professor Chad Oldfather explains in a new article, “The Inconspicuous DHS: The Supreme Court, Celebrity Culture, and David H. Souter,” we are unlikely to see anyone like Souter ascend to the highest court in the land again.
Briefly: At the Legal Docket podcast, Mary Reichard and Jenny Rough speak with Kendra Espinoza, the lead challenger in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, in which the Supreme Court decided in June that Montana could not prohibit a state scholarship program from helping families who send their children to religious schools.
The only Native American on federal death row has asked the Supreme Court to put his death sentence on hold. In a filing submitted Tuesday, Lezmond Mitchell urged the justices to stay his execution, scheduled for Aug. 26, while they consider whether to take up his claim that he should be able to interview the jurors who convicted him about whether their deliberations were tainted by racial bias.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday released the calendar for the November argument session, which will include the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act and a clash between religious liberty and LGBTQ rights.
Briefly: In Politico, Kia Rahnama examines the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on the right to protest in light of recent demonstrations across the country in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. “For more than 30 years,” Rahnama writes, “the Supreme Court has failed to take up a freedom-of-assembly case.
Briefly: In the New York Times, Adam Liptak previews Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski, a case that will be argued before the Supreme Court this fall.
Tom Goldstein, the publisher of SCOTUSblog and partner at Goldstein & Russell, P.C., has argued more than 40 cases before the Supreme Court since his first oral argument in 1999.
The Supreme Court on Monday appointed Aaron Nielson, a professor at Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School, as a “friend of the court” in Collins v. Mnuchin, in which the justices are likely to hear argument this fall.
Briefly: In its latest coronavirus-related order, the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Rhode Island to move forward with easing a state requirement for voters to sign absentee ballots in the presence of witnesses or a notary.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health is in the news again this year. She announced last month that she was being treated with chemotherapy — the fourth time since 1999 that she has battled cancer.
This week we highlight cert petitions pending before the Supreme Court that ask the court to assess, among other things, whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects uniformed servicemembers and whether Medicaid coverage for certain beneficiaries can be tied to work or other requirements.
Briefly: At CBS News, Melissa Quinn reports that progressive organizations — mimicking a strategy used by conservatives in recent years – are invoking the Supreme Court as an issue to drive voter turnout.
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to intervene in a dispute over absentee ballots for the upcoming elections in Rhode Island.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday again stepped in to prevent coronavirus-related changes to state election rules. The justices issued an emergency ruling freezing a lower court’s order that would have loosened the requirements for a government-reform coalition in Oregon to add a proposed state constitutional amendment to the state’s November ballot.
Two more cases involving state election rules during the coronavirus pandemic are before the Supreme Court on an emergency basis this week: one about absentee-ballot requirements in Rhode Island, and another about ballot-initiative rules in Oregon.
The Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to block a lower-court ruling that allows colleges and universities to pay some student-athletes for expenses related to education.
For the fifth time this year, the Supreme Court set aside a lower-court order that would have altered state election rules in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Briefly: In the Atlantic, Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn weigh in on the debate over potential structural reforms to the Supreme Court, arguing that Democrats should abandon proposals to add justices or impose term limits and, instead, should strip power from the institution itself by “removing
This article is part of a SCOTUSblog symposium on the Roberts court and the religion clauses. Kim Colby is director of the Christian Legal Society’s Center for Law and Religious Freedom.
The Republican National Committee and Rhode Island Republicans asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block an order by a federal district court that relaxed the state’s witness requirement for absentee ballots.
Briefly: The long-running dispute over compensation for college athletes is back at the Supreme Court.
This article is part of a SCOTUSblog symposium on the Roberts court and the religion clauses. Richard W. Garnett is the Paul J. Schierl / Fort Howard Corporation professor of law at the University of Notre Dame and is the founding director of the school’s Program on Church, State and Society.
A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday revoked a lower-court order that required a California jail to implement stricter health and safety measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
In the latest entry on the Supreme Court’s unofficial coronavirus docket, the court divided 5-4 on Wednesday over health-and-safety protocols designed to curb the spread of COVID-19 in a California county jail.
This article is part of a SCOTUSblog symposium on the Roberts court and the religion clauses. Erwin Chemerinsky is the dean and Jesse H. Choper distinguished professor of law at University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
This week we highlight cert petitions pending before the Supreme Court that ask the court to assess, among other things, claims of religious discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and standing requirements under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
The movement to impose term limits on Supreme Court justices gained a bit of traction this week with an endorsement from a prominent think tank with deep ties to the Democratic establishment.
This article is part of a SCOTUSblog symposium on the Roberts court and the religion clauses.
This week marks the 10-year anniversary of Justice Elena Kagan’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, and USA Today’s Richard Wolf examines the heavy influence she has had during her first decade as a justice.