by Linda Beale S&P faces civil charges for mortgage bond ratings The Justice Department’s efforts to reach a settlement with Standard & Poor’s Rating Services about the ratings provided to…

…has gone awry. The public properly looks to its elected officials to craft a solution.” Chief Justice Prods Congress to Resolve Budget Talks and Control National Debt, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/01/us/chief-justice-roberts-prods-congress-on-fiscal-matters.html?_r=0 Roberts goes…

…and based on which justice wrote which of today’s majority opinions, it looks pretty clear that (as everyone has been predicting all along) Roberts will write the majority opinion in…

…followed by shouts of “No!” Kennedy paused for a moment, and then continued: “Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice for his fellow human beings, and…

…Society member who early in his career served for a year as a law clerk to Justice Scalia, eloquently deconstructed that conflation in his 2-1 majority opinion upholding the constitutionality…

…when filed on behalf of clients by former Justice Dept. solicitors general—the Office of Solicitor General is the division of the Justice Dept. that argues cases before the Supreme Court…

…conflict between the pro-business Republicans and the Tea Baggers, and therefore between the business-interests-first justices and the Tea Party justices, appears more significant than it actually is, but ended up…

…Virginia have all implemented mandatory defender fees and provide no opportunity to waive them for indigent cases. Brennan Center for Justice notes: Many states are imposing new and often onerous…

…Will there be friction between the chief justice and Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court?”—is that in most of the six cases before the Court this past term in which…

…not find tax strategy claims eligible for patentability. This was the last case in which Justice Stevens will participate, so there is also the uncertainty of the new Justice’s approach…