Justice Sonia Sotomayor was among the justices who took an aggressive posture toward California’s prison overcrowding in spirited oral arguments on Tuesday.
California’s lawyer, Supreme Court litigator Carter Phillips, took…
A California couple who remained on a state list of child abusers even after they were cleared of the charges have lost an attorney fee case before the U.S. Supreme…
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. disagrees with the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a dispute involving a 16-year old Texas youth accused of illegally downloading music from the Internet.
Justice John Paul Stevens has been more visible since his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court, and now he’s taking on an even higher-profile role with a new book review…
The U.S. Supreme Court hasn’t ruled on the constitutionality of new airport screening technology that produces revealing body images and the alternative full-body pat downs, but one justice has looked…
A May U.S. Supreme Court ruling that buoyed juvenile justice advocates isn’t having much of an impact in Florida, even though at least 116 inmates qualify for sentencing relief under…
Justice Antonin Scalia defended originalism on Friday, warning that interpreting the Constitution as a “living document” effectively allows “five out of nine hotshot lawyers to run the country.”
The U.S. Supreme Court set a record last term that may not be welcome news to law students or journalists that report on its opinions: The median length of the…
Judges on the nation’s top court are handicapped by a lack of knowledge about the Internet when deciding related cases, a U.S. Supreme Court justice admits.
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