Move over, Robert Bork. “Getting borked”—the phrase coined to describe a takedown like Bork’s 1987 failed U.S. Supreme Court appointment—has lost its popularity. Now there’s a new verb entering the…
Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal’s defense of former Attorney General John Ashcroft went so smoothly before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that he ended his main oral argument 10…
An Ohio state law professor says a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued today on judges’ powers at resentencing will likely provide fodder for defense lawyers.
A recent oral argument before the nation’s highest court probably won’t make much of a difference in the grander scheme of things, because the sentencing law at issue has already…
The U.S. Supreme Court says the family of a Korean War veteran with paranoid schizophrenia may be entitled to appeal a denial of supplemental disability benefits even though he missed…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that corporations do not have a right of personal privacy under freedom of information laws in an opinion that derided AT&T for its grammatical…
The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with an Army reservist who claims he was fired from his hospital job because of a biased supervisor who intended to influence the decision…
The Supreme Court’s two newest justices are more forceful in oral arguments than their predecessors, making for livelier discussions and a changed dynamic.
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