The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In June, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing its Good Neighbo … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changes (Tyler Pager & Michael Scherer, The Washington Post) Suprem … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court blocked the execution of Ruben Gutierrez, who was sentenced to die after 7 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday for the 1998 stabbing death of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville, Tex. In a brief unsigned order released to reporters just after 6:30 p.m. Eastern.. … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Why AOC’s Effort to Impeach Alito and Thomas Isn’t Going Anywhere (Frank Bowman, Slate) For the Rest of the World,... The p … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: On the Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett is unafraid to go her own way (Henry Gass, Christian Science Monitor) After... The p … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Senate committee to probe Supreme Court’s Trump immunity ruling (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News) Supreme Court sidesteps major so … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: The Supreme Court limited federal power. Health care is feeling the shock waves. (Stephanie Armour, Alabama Reflector) Oca … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: States and Creditors for Purdue Pharma Threaten Sacklers With Gush of Lawsuits (Jan Hoffman, The New York Times) With Che … | Continue reading
The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Federal agents arresting someone on serious drug charges — those punishable by over one year in prison... The post … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Independent Streak Marked Supreme Court Term (Adam Liptak, The New York Times) From DACA recipi … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read: How the Supreme Court’s immunity decision affects Trump’s legal cases (Tyler Bartlam, NPR) Win for Trump, surprise on aborti … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Supreme Court declines to hear a series of challenges to laws barring felons and drug users from having guns (Devan... The p … | Continue reading
Former President Donald Trump loomed large over the Supreme Court’s 2023-24 term. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee for 2024 brought two cases to the justices and fared well in both; Trump could also benefit from the decision in a third case, brought by a defendant. … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Key takeaways from the Supreme Court term that upended Trump’s trial (Justin Jouvenal & Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Po … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a North Dakota truck stop can bring a challenge to a regulation issued 13 years ago by the Federal Reserve Board. In a 6-3 vote divided along ideological lines, the justices significantly expanded plaintiffs’ ability to sue federal... The po … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Tuesday added five new cases – two of which will be argued together – to its docket for the 2024-25 term. The justices declined to take up a number of notable cases, including challenges to Illinois’s regulation of assault weapons and... The post Justices add … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s historic decision granting Donald Trump immunity (John Fritze, Tierney Sneed, & Devan Co … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Monday sent a pair of challenges to laws in Texas and Florida that would regulate how large social media companies control content posted on their sites back to the lower courts for another look. In a decision by Justice Elena Kagan,... The post Court sends s … | Continue reading
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. Every summer, before the justices leave town for the Supreme Court’s recess, they have one last impromptu conferenc … | Continue reading
As I reach the courtroom on Monday, Michael Dreeben of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office has already taken a seat in the bar section. He can be pretty sure he will get the opinion in Trump v. United States today. Smith, who was present for... The post A dramatic last day in the … | Continue reading
This article was updated on July 1 at 3:32 p.m. In a historic decision, a divided Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former presidents can never be prosecuted for actions relating to the core powers of their office, and that there is at least a... The post Justices rule Trump has … | Continue reading
The court will release the remaining opinions for the October 2023-24 term this morning. We will be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday... The post The … | Continue reading
On Monday, July 1, we were live as the court released the remaining opinions in argued cases from the 2023-24 term. In Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors, the court holds that a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act to challenge an agency action first... The post Anno … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon declined a request from Stephen Bannon, who served as an aide to former President Donald Trump, to delay the start of his four-month prison sentence while he asks the Supreme Court to review his case. Bannon is scheduled to... The post Court … | Continue reading
Something on television last night seems to have stolen the attention from the Supreme Court in its end-of-term push. But today, the justices will issue three big and newsworthy decisions, taking back the spotlight, with the end of the term now in clear sight. At... The post Cons … | Continue reading
This article was updated on June 28 at 5:46 p.m. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld ordinances in a southwest Oregon city that prohibit people who are homeless from using blankets, pillows, or cardboard boxes for protection from the elements while sleeping within the city... The … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over the validity of a 2018 federal regulation banning the “bump stock” rifle attachment. The Trump administration regulation barred ownership of bump stocks, which transforms a semiautomatic rifle into a weapon that can discharge at a r … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Activist Behind Supreme Court Affirmative Action Cases Is Now Suing Law Firms (Douglas Belkin & Erin Mulvaney, The Wall S … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Thursday put a bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the highly addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin, on hold while it reviews a challenge to the legality of the plan, which would shield the Sackler family, the owners of the drug... The post … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: The Secret History of Gun Rights: How Lawmakers Armed the N.R.A. (Mike McIntire, The New York Times) The Supreme Court... T … | Continue reading
The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Over 40 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Baker v. McCollan that a man who was... The post Florida man cont … | Continue reading
The justices narrowly rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania law that allows any company doing business in the state to be sued there – even if the corporation is not headquartered in Pennsylvania and the conduct at the center of the lawsuit... The post C … | Continue reading
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The Supreme Court will be considering 117 petitions and applications at this week’s conference. It will be consider … | Continue reading
Thursday’s decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith provides a major statement in the role that copyright law plays in fostering artistic creativity, as the court upheld the claim of a famed celebrity photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, that the Andy Warhol e … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court has held that the Ohio National Guard’s dual-status technician employees have federal labor rights. In a 7-2 decision by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court said that the Ohio Adjutant General’s Department and the Ohio National Guard act as a federal “agency” whe … | Continue reading
In many ways, Monday’s oral argument in Dubin v. United States felt like a legislation class in law school, with various canons of statutory construction being bandied about. Dubin concerns the reach of the federal aggravated identity theft statute and whether a person must steal … | Continue reading
The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. The Clean Water Act allows private actors to sue someone for polluting a water system. But the... The post In t … | Continue reading
Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Two Decisions Down and Fifty-Eight to Go (Adam Feldman, Empirical SCOTUS) Ethics Code Wouldn’t Fix Supreme Court’s Legitima … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court has not been able to determine who leaked a draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the court said on Thursday. The unprecedented leak last May revealed that the court was privately poised to overturn the court’s … | Continue reading
The justices declined to block the execution of Robert Fratta, whose lethal injection in Texas was scheduled for Tuesday evening. Fratta was sentenced to die for the 1994 murder-for-hire of his estranged wife, Farah. He was first convicted and sentenced to death in 1997. A... The … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court will resume its pre-pandemic practice of announcing opinions from the bench, the court’s Public Information Office said on Monday afternoon. But although the justices now provide live audio of oral arguments, the opinion announcements will not be livestreamed. I … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Monday added nine new cases to its docket, including a high-profile dispute over the extent of technology companies’ immunity from lawsuits based on the content they host. The new additions to the docket came in a list of orders from last week’s “long confere … | Continue reading
The fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed money may depend on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the term “money order” in an arcane 1974 federal statute. On one side is Delaware. On the other side are 30 other states. In the middle is MoneyGram, the world’s sec … | Continue reading
This article was updated on June 30 at 2:48 p.m. The Supreme Court on Thursday truncated the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gases. The ruling may hamper President Joe Biden’s plan to fight climate change and could limit the authority of federal age … | Continue reading
This article was updated on June 24 at 3:11 p.m. The Supreme Court on Friday eliminated the constitutional right to obtain an abortion, casting aside 49 years of precedent that began with Roe v. Wade. The decision by Justice Samuel Alito will set off a seismic shift in reproducti … | Continue reading
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York handgun-licensing law that required New Yorkers who want to carry a handgun in public to show a special need to defend themselves. The 6-3 ruling, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, is the court's first significant decision on … | Continue reading
Continuing an unbroken decades-long run, the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to extend the right to sue federal officers for damages under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents. In an opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court held that a Washington state innkeeper does not ha … | Continue reading