The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights were violated because there were only three African Americans among the jury pool available to hear…
The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term Monday with a docket that includes two kinds of videos (one opposing Hillary Clinton and another featuring dogfights), a cross in the…
Carlos Moreno is the only justice on the California Supreme Court to marry a gay couple, and the only justice who dissented from a decision last May upholding a ballot…
Scholars considering the reason for the U.S. Supreme Court’s declining docket should look to the certiorari voting records of five justices appointed between 1986 and 1993, according to a research…
A U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing can be a difficult process. It turns out, that just getting to Washington, D.C., for the nomination announcement can also involve some twists and…
Would the U.S. Supreme Court uphold a mandatory health insurance plan? The issue is being debated on blogs and in op-eds, with some big differences of opinion emerging.
When Louis Brandeis was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1916, some considered him a dangerous radical. Yet he was confirmed and spent more than two decades on the…
A little-noticed U.S. Supreme Court decision on heightened federal pleading standards has been cited in more than 1,500 cases, spurring trial lawyers and groups backing civil rights and consumer causes…
A comment by the U.S. Supreme Court’s newest justice last week questioned precedent dating to the 19th century that gave corporations constitutional rights.
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