SCOTUSblog
SCOTUSblog analyzes the cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and posts breaking news of court decisions. Supreme Court decisions are often posted here before the high court puts them on its own Web site.
Author: Lawyer-contributors are U.S. Supreme Court litigators from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein as well as Jason Harrow) and from Howe & Russell (Amy Howe, Kevin Russell and Gretchen Sund). Also contributing are law professors David Stras of the University of Minnesota, who also contributes to Empirical Legal Studies, and Marty Lederman of Georgetown University, who also contributes to Balkinization and Convictions.
Journalist Lyle Denniston handles breaking news of court decisions and makes other posts to the site. He has covered the court for the Baltimore Sun, American Lawyer magazine and the Boston Globe.
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Recent Posts from SCOTUSblog
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OT 07 Business Docket Review
Continuing our look back at October Term 2007 (a review that began here with a look at criminal cases), we turn to the Court’s business docket. After a spectacularly successful term for corporate parties…
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New challenge to war crimes trials
UPDATE 4:23 p.m. District Judge James Robertson, moving this new case along swiftly, has told the Justice Department to file its opposition on Monday, July 14, and detainee’s counsel to file their reply on Wednesday,…
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DOJ sends “regrets” on omitted cite
The Justice Department has notified the Supreme Court that a legal development on the death penalty in federal law was left out of the Court’s consideration of Kennedy v. Louisiana (07-343). In that decision, on…
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Separate track for some detainees
NOTE TO READERS: Events have been unfolding rapidly in the lower courts on Guantanamo Bay detainee cases following the Supreme Court’s June 12 decision on the prisoners’ legal rights. Earlier in the day, this blog…
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Victims’ rights plea denied
The Supreme Court refused on Wednesday to delay a federal judge’s review of a plea bargain settling federal criminal charges growing out of an explosion at a Texas oil refinery in March 2005. Lawyers for…
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Upcoming Events: Supreme Court Review Panels
UPDATE: In the notices below, we have added links to video recaps of Supreme Court review panels that have already occurred. ____________ Over the coming weeks, legal organizations around Washington will host a series of…
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Detainee cases begin to move
UPDATE Wednesday 10:30 a.m. The District judges’ resolution adopted Tuesday on processing more than 250 current or soon-to-be-filed Guantanamo habeas cases can be downloaded here. A sample order for transferring a case to the coordinating judge…
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Links to new gun rights lawsuits
On Friday, the National Rifle Association filed five lawsuits, seeking to apply the Constitution’s Second Amendment to block gun control laws adopted by local governments in California and Illinois. This blog provided a link to the California…
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Revised October argument calendar
The Supreme Court on Tuesday released a revised calendar of oral arguments scheduled for the opening session that begins Monday, Oct. 6. The new version can be downloaded here. As the U.S. Solicitor General’s office…
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Opinion Recap: Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Company
Last Wednesday, in No. 07-411, the Supreme Court held that an Indian tribal court lacks jurisdiction to hear discrimination charges brought by tribal members against a non-Indian bank concerning the bank’s sale of its fee…