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…Court closely know, the Court (by its own admission) looks the other way year after year, sometimes for a decade or two, as the lower courts interpret particular procedural or…
…Court closely know, the Court (by its own admission) looks the other way year after year, sometimes for a decade or two, as the lower courts interpret particular procedural or…
…decision, the Supreme Court, by a 5 to 4 margin, affirmed a Court of Appeals ruling that a citizen had the constitutional right to possess a firearm separate the militia…
I predict that the Supreme Court will grant the emergency request in the Texas voter-ID case, and reinstate the district court’s stay of enforcement until after the November election. Which,…
…Supreme Court upheld as constitutional the race-conscious admissions policy at the University of Michigan law school. But at the same time, in a companion case, the court struck down a…
…came close to precluding federal habeas corpus review of state-court convictions—and the O’Connor/Kennedy/Thomas/Alito/Scalia/Roberts crowd’s virulently angry and inappropriately aggressive actions—the Supreme Court’s effective rewriting of that statute to make it…
Robert Waldmann In the New York Times Amy Harmon has a long and fascinating article on the ethics of medical experiments on humans. She considers the argument that it is…
by Beverly Mann Paul Clement’s weird tail-can-morph-the-dog ACA-litigation argument Earlier this month I wrote a post called “Markets and the ACA: Why the Supreme Court Will Uphold the ACA” that…
…unreasonable cases, but if it is reasonable that the off-label use of the drug might have caused the damage, then the encouraged off-label use would lead to an assumption of…
…was worried about the conservative faction on the Court. So, using his massive victory as a mandate, President Roosevelt proposed a bill to expand the Supreme Court. His proposal was…
…customer, the securities-firm client, the employee, to sue in a real court. Or was. At the center of the Supreme Court case was a 2005 California Supreme Court opinion that…