May 31 2017 Topics Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News SCOTUS Opinions and Orders Update Timothy Courtney OPINIONS (1) County of Los Angeles v. Mendez: By a vote of 8-0 the judgment...
Mar 3 2021 Topics Constitution Blog Post Student Blog Initiative Scalia’s Theory of the Suspension Clause in St. Cyr Jacob R. Weaver Experts have long debated Congress’s power to withhold federal court jurisdiction. But in 2008, the...
Mar 8 2021 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Alexander Matthew P. Cavedon Pennsylvania’s highest court has extinguished the automobile exception to the warrant requirement. No warrant is...
Mar 10 2021 Publication State Court Docket Watch State Court Docket Watch: Council of Organizations and Others for Education About Parochiaid v. State of Michigan Thomas J. Rheaume, Gordon J. Kangas Michigan’s Supreme Court confirmed that the state’s constitution permits reimbursement to religious schools for costs...
Jul 20 2009 Publication Federalist Society Review Bartlett v. Strickland: Is a Stopping Point Near for Race-Conscious Districting? John J. Park In Bartlett v. Strickland, the U.S. Supreme Court found that there is a stopping point...
Mar 15 2021 Topics Labor & Employment Law • Religious Liberty Blog Post News States have been violating religious schools’ First Amendment rights for decades. The Supreme Court may be about to stop them. The Supreme Court rarely goes out of its way to make sweeping pronouncements. The Justices...
Mar 17 2021 Topics Supreme Court Blog Post News Nominal damages: $1. Defending the 1st Amendment? Priceless. Casey Mattox, Cynthia Fleming Crawford How much is your freedom of speech worth? If a dollar value can’t be placed...
Mar 19 2021 Topics Separation of Powers Blog Post Timeless Concepts for a Trying Time: The Separation of Powers and Judicial Review Maria S. Lazar If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men,...
Jul 17 2009 Publication The Sotomayor Nomination, Part III Louis Michael Seidman, Wendy Long, Matthew J. Franck, Thomas C. Goldstein, Scott Moss, David R. Stras, Edward Whelan Online Debate On May 26th, President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter as an Associate...
Apr 6 2016 Topics Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post News Justice Ginsburg Goes Originalist Timothy Courtney The Wall Street Journal reports: The Supreme Court took the safe route Monday in declining...
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SCOTUS Opinions and Orders Update
OPINIONS (1) County of Los Angeles v. Mendez: By a vote of 8-0 the judgment...
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Scalia’s Theory of the Suspension Clause in St. Cyr
Experts have long debated Congress’s power to withhold federal court jurisdiction. But in 2008, the...
State Court Docket Watch: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Alexander
Matthew P. Cavedon
Pennsylvania’s highest court has extinguished the automobile exception to the warrant requirement. No warrant is...
State Court Docket Watch: Council of Organizations and Others for Education About Parochiaid v. State of Michigan
Thomas J. Rheaume, Gordon J. Kangas
Michigan’s Supreme Court confirmed that the state’s constitution permits reimbursement to religious schools for costs...
Bartlett v. Strickland: Is a Stopping Point Near for Race-Conscious Districting?
John J. Park
In Bartlett v. Strickland, the U.S. Supreme Court found that there is a stopping point...
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States have been violating religious schools’ First Amendment rights for decades. The Supreme Court may be about to stop them.
The Supreme Court rarely goes out of its way to make sweeping pronouncements. The Justices...
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Nominal damages: $1. Defending the 1st Amendment? Priceless.
How much is your freedom of speech worth? If a dollar value can’t be placed...
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Timeless Concepts for a Trying Time: The Separation of Powers and Judicial Review
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men,...
The Sotomayor Nomination, Part III
Louis Michael Seidman, Wendy Long, Matthew J. Franck, Thomas C. Goldstein, Scott Moss, David R. Stras, Edward Whelan
Online Debate
On May 26th, President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter as an Associate...
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Justice Ginsburg Goes Originalist
The Wall Street Journal reports: The Supreme Court took the safe route Monday in declining...