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 partner Patricia Millett) and from Howe & Russell (Amy Howe, Kevin Russell, Kristina Moore and Eliza Presson). Also contributing is law professor David Stras of the University of Minnesota, who also contributes to Empirical Legal Studies. 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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Friday Round-up
At the WSJ Law Blog this morning, Ashby Jones previews McDonald v. City of Chicago, in which the Court will examine the constitutionality of a Chicago gun-control ordinance and, more generally, the Second Amendment’s applicability…
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Will the Court Take On Judicial Takings?: , Argument Preview
Below, Elisabeth Oppenheimer of Stanford Law School previews Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection (08-1151), which will be heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, December 2. Check the Stop the…
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Academic Round-up
For those that use empirical data to study the Supreme Court, the new Supreme Court Database is now live at supremecourtdatabase.org. The biggest advantage to the new version of the Database is that it is…
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Petitions to Watch | Conference of 11.24.09
This edition of “Petitions to Watch” features cases up for consideration at the Justices’ next private conference on Tuesday, November 24. As always, it lists the petitions on the Court’s paid docket that Tom has…
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Thursday Round-Up
Linda Greenhouse has an article in the Charleston Law Review’s Supreme Court Preview issue (starting at page 37) in which she assesses Justice Breyer’s jurisprudence on the Court, at the presumed midpoint of his tenure…
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ACLU seeks to salvage FOIA ruling
The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to leave undisturbed a lower court ruling that limits the government’s power to keep secret photos or documents that reveal official wrongdoing. Thus, the ACLU…
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Wednesday Round-up
Roll Call (subscription only) has an editorial by Simon Lazarus in which he argues that Congress is pushing back against recent Court decisions that encroach on Congress’s domain. Lazarus cites four examples of legislation Congress…
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Brief: Pare down Patriot Act: Merits brief, cases, 08-1498 and 09-89
Posing a major test of the sweeping scope of the government’s most-used legal weapon against “terrorism,” six groups and two individuals urged the Supreme Court on Monday to pare down key provisions of the USA…
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Tuesday Round-up
The Court’s decision not to review a challenge by a Native American group to the Washington Redskins mascot leads Monday’s coverage. The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, NPR, and the hometown Washington Post all report…
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History lesson on 2nd Amendment’s reach: Merits brief, , 08-1521
UPDATE Tuesday a.m. The National Rifle Association on Monday filed a brief supporting the Chicagoans’ challenge. It can be downloaded here. The NRA has been pursuing a similar challenge (pending petition, 08-1497). It is in…