Racial Discrimination in Ricci v. DeStefano
The City’s catch-22: certify a test that left them open to a disparate impact suit, or refuse to certify and face a disparate treatment suit.
Tagged: SCOTUS
Amy, Tell Me What You’re Gonna Do: Part 4
Amy Coney Barrett’s writings and lectures speak for her more loudly than any media speculation or punditry.
Amy, Tell Me What You’re Gonna Do: Part 2
Examining Amy Coney Barrett’s reasoning on prisoner’s rights in John McCottrell v. Marcus White and sentencing reform in U.S. v. Uriarte
Amy, Tell Me What You’re Gonna Do: Part 1
We don’t have to guess; I turn to the actual, written judicial opinions of Amy Coney Barrett for insight into her judicial philosophy.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Dead at 87
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has suffered from various ailments for years, has passed away. She was 87.
Wednesday Writs: Georgia v Brailsford and the SCOTUS Jury Trial
Our case of the week is the only known jury trial to be held before the United States Supreme Court: State of Georgia v. Brailsford.
Wednesday Writs: Brief For A Change Edition
All things well within the bounds of decency as a member of the public, but not so desirable in a fair and impartial juror….
Wednesday Writs: SCOTUS, Nevada, and Casinos Over Churches Edition
Our Case of the Week made headlines, carrying on recent SCOTUS story lines like Gorsuch’s veneration and “John Roberts has abandoned his oath!”
Wednesday Writs: Murder Most Foul Edition
Reta Mays, a nursing assistant at the Clarksburg, WV VA, admitted to purposely injecting seven elderly Veteran Affairs patients with insulin, causing their deaths.
SCOTUS Hands Religious Institutions Two Important Victories
The Supreme Court released two of its five remaining decisions today; both were 7-2 and both were a victory for the religious.
Wednesday Writs: Kavanaugh v. RoboCalls Edition
Kavanaugh writes “A robocall that says, “Please pay your government debt” is legal. A robocall that says, “Please donate to our political campaign” is illegal. That is about as content-based as it gets.”
A Threat to Religious Liberty? Hardly.
In reality, though, religious conservatives do not have much to fear from the Roberts Court
Wednesday Writs: Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue
Let’s discuss religious freedom in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, via another new decision fresh off the SCOTUS presses.
Wednesday Writs for 6/24
A tale of two headlines: Why Trump Keeps Losing at the Supreme Court vs. How the Supreme Court is Quietly Enabling Trump and other law tidbits
SCOTUS Rules in Favor of LGBT Rights in Workplace Discrimination Case
In a 6-3 decision authored by Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court rules that employment discrimination against LGBT+ people violates the Civil Rights Act.
The People’s Court: Live-streaming the Supreme Court
People would be better off realizing how often a Supreme Court decision rests on a legal technicality or procedural element, as opposed to the merits of a particular position.
Wednesday Writs: Say It to My Face Edition
The confrontation clause — the right to face one’s accuser — is among the most well-known of our constitutionally guaranteed criminal rights.
Wednesday Writs: Kimble v. Marvel
That time the Supreme Court cited the Peter Parker principle and Marvel found itself in the center of patent law and policy.
Wednesday Writs: The Daubert Standard
L1: In 1973 in California, a woman gave birth to a baby boy who, although tests would later reveal him to have normal chromosomes, was born with severe deformities in his limbs. Doctors could...
Wednesday Writs: SCOTUS and Almighty God Edition
L1: A Pennsylvania law passed in December 1959 required, at the outset of a school day, the recitation of ten verses from the Holy Bible, to be read over the school intercom or in...
