Case Page: District Attorney’s Office for the Third Judicial District, et al. v. Osborne

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Wednesday round-up

Continued discussion of last week’s decision in Winn, and a mock trial featuring Justices Ginsburg, Alito, and Sotomayor

A limited DNA access plea allowed

The Court rules that an individual seeking testing of DNA gathered at a crime scene may pursue that claim in a federal civil rights lawsuit, instead of under federal habeas law, which has more restrictions.

Argument recap: Drawing a line between habeas and Section 1983

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Skinner v. Switzer.

Argument preview: seeking access to DNA testing after Osborne

Thomas J.G. Scott, a 3L at Stanford Law School, previews Skinner v. Switzer, which is scheduled for oral argument this morning.

This week at the Court

Significant dates in the coming week.

Special feature: Texas death row DNA case

On Wednesday, October 13, the Court will hear oral arguments in Skinner v. Switzer.

Justice Stevens, Particularist

The following essay for our thirty-day series on John Paul Stevens is by Frederick Schauer, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.  Schauer’s research focuses on the First Amendment.  His papers discussing Justice Stevens’ jurisprudence include “Justice Stevens and the Size of Constitutional Decisions,” Rutgers Law Journal (1995). Although [...]

Execution delayed in DNA case

The Supreme Court on Wednesday evening delayed the execution in Texas of Henry W. Skinner, at least until the Court acts on his new case seeking to pursue a civil rights claim that he was denied a chance to have DNA evidence tested in an attempt to prove his innocence of a triple murder more [...]

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 a mirage that reflects the coincidence of cases that happen to fall together by chance within a single term. But [...]

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