Updated: Judge Sonia Sotomayor makes about $180,000 a year, but she reported little in the way of assets on her financial disclosure report for 2007. That has prompted some comment…
A new study of 2,000 oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court has found that the relative number of questions posed by the justices is a good predictor of which…
The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned a New York law requiring all federal civil rights claims against prison employees to be heard in a state claims court.
“Ideologues” are likely to advance four lines of attack against federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor when confirmation hearings are held, likely in the third week of July, according to a…
Updated: President Obama has announced the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David H.…
Updated: Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, expected to be nominated today to the U.S. Supreme Court, was selected from a short list…
If Mich. Gov. Jennifer Granholm is nominated and confirmed to become a Supreme Court justice, she would be the seventh member of the court who wasn’t born in the United…
A California legal publication is reporting that two more judges on the so-called U.S. Supreme Court short list—Sonia Sotomayor and Carlos Moreno—are in contact with the administration as part of…
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