Scotusblog

SCOTUSblog analyzes the cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and posts breaking news of court decisions. Supreme Court decisions are often posted here before the high court puts them on its own Web site.

Author: Lawyer-contributors are U.S. Supreme Court litigators from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein as well as partner Patricia Millett) and from Howe & Russell (Amy Howe, Kevin Russell, Kristina Moore and Eliza Presson). Also contributing is law professor David Stras of the University of Minnesota, who also contributes to Empirical Legal Studies. Journalist Lyle Denniston handles breaking news of court decisions and makes other posts to the site. He has covered the court for the Baltimore Sun, American Lawyer magazine and the Boston Globe.

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Recent Posts from SCOTUSblog

Analysis: New obstacles to wartime challenges
Analysis It has never been easy to sue government officials for actions they take in wartime, and such challenges, when allowed, fail more often than not. One of the main problems has been that most of…
The President, on long-term detention
President Obama, in a press interview on Thursday, said it would give him “huge pause” to create a new system of long-term detention without trial of terrorism suspects. After a flurry of news accounts, floating…
Hyperlinked Opinion: Ricci v. DeStefano
Courtesy of PARADOCS, a hyperlinked version of the decision in Ricci, et al., v. DeStefano, et al. (07-1428) is available here [Note: the document is hosted on an outside download site because of its large…
Justices to London, change in calendar
The Supreme Court said Wednesday that a number of the Justices will go to London in October to attend opening ceremonies for the newly established Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. (A Wikipedia entry on…
The Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings as a Non-Event
A few days after the President nominated Sonia Sotomayor, I labeled the question of her confirmation “over.” Along the same lines, I wanted to lay out why I think the hearings themselves will be a…
Opinion Recap: Cuomo v. The Clearing House Ass’n, L.L.C.
Please note that Howe & Russell filed an amicus brief in this case on behalf of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, National Fair Housing Alliance, and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,…
Akin Gump’s Supreme Court Summary Memo
As updated below in the Super StatPack, our annual summary memo of statistics from OT08 is available here. We welcome any citation, republishing, or repurposing of these facts and figures. We ask that you acknowledge…
UPDATE: Coleman concedes; no Bush v. Gore violation found
UPDATE 4:08 p.m. Republican Norm Coleman on Tuesday afternoon ended his fight for reelection to the U.S. Senate, bowing to a decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court that his opponent, Democrat Al Franken, had won…
Yesterday’s Grants in No. 08-645, Abbott v. Abbott, and No. 08-1200, Jerman v. Carlisle
We represent the petitioners in two cases that were granted yesterday, No. 08-645, Abbott v. Abbott, and No. 08-1200, Jerman v. Carlisle. In Abbott, the Court will construe the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects…
Thoughts on this Term and the Next
It’s always perilous to try and generalize about a Supreme Court Term. Roughly 80 cases on diverse topics decided by nine different people don’t collectively produce clear themes. When they do appear to, it’s often…