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 Jason Harrow) and from Howe & Russell (Amy Howe, Kevin Russell and Gretchen Sund). Also contributing are law professors David Stras of the University of Minnesota, who also contributes to Empirical Legal Studies, and Marty Lederman of Georgetown University, who also contributes to Balkinization and Convictions.
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
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Today at the Supreme Court | 1.6.09
No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued from the Court today. The Justices will next convene for their private conference on Friday. Oral arguments will resume January 12.
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Petitions to Watch | Conference of 1.16.09
This edition of “Petitions to Watch” features cases up for consideration at the Justices’ private conference on January 16. As always, the list contains the petitions on the Court’s paid docket that Tom has deemed…
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Kagan nominated for Solicitor General
UPDATE: President-Elect Obama has officially announced the nomination of Kagan along with three other posts at the Department of Justice. The text of the announcement is available here. ____________ According to an email sent this…
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Today at the Supreme Court | 1.5.09
No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued from the Court today. The Justices will next convene for their private conference on Friday. Oral arguments will resume January 12.
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Does Boumediene reach to Bagram?
Since June, and the Supreme Court’s ruling in Boumediene v. Bush, it has been clear that foreign nationals held as terrorism suspects by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have a constitutional right to…
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The Week Ahead
No oral arguments are scheduled at the Court this week. The Justices will hold a private conference on Friday, orders from which could be released that afternoon. To view our list of petition’s to watch…
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Academic Roundup
For those that haven’t already read or heard about it, Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson has written an essay forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review entitled “Of Guns, Abortion, and the Unraveling of the…
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New Filing in Level 3 Communications v. City of St. Louis
On Wednesday, we filed this reply brief for our petition in Level 3 Communications v. City of St. Louis. The petition is here and the brief in opposition is available here. The reply brief also…
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Torture case filings delayed
Giving the new government of President-elect Barack Obama its first chance to take a position on a legal case involving the Guantanamo Bay detention controversy, and specifically on claims of torture there, the D.C. Circuit…
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Analysis: Must Senate seat Burris?
NOTE TO READERS: This post is another in a series exploring the meaning and scope of prior Supreme Court rulings — here, the June 16, 1969, decision in Powell v. McCormack (395 U.S. 486). Analysis Twice…