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Thursday round-up

At this blog, Lyle Denniston discusses nine pending cert. petitions regarding new EPA rules on greenhouse gases and observes that the petitions “could either turn into one of the biggest regulatory cases the Court has had in years, or could go nowhere because of the argument that the Supreme Court has already all but resolved the dispute.” [...]

Tuesday round-up

Yesterday the Court released orders from its May 16 Conference, granting cert. in five new cases; it also issued four opinions in argued cases. In Metrish v. Lancaster, the Court unanimously held that a state prisoner who was convicted of first-degree murder was not entitled to federal habeas relief when state courts precluded him from [...]

Monday round-up

Briefly: Mark Sherman of the Associated Press (via The Washington Post) examines the diversity of the Supreme Court bar, noting that “[i]n an era when three women, a Hispanic and an African-American sit on the court and white men constitute a bare majority of the nine justices, the court is more diverse than the lawyers who [...]

Thursday round-up

We have changed our round-up format!  In an effort to simplify the process for our round-up team, going forward we will only include in the round-up news articles and posts that are submitted to us.  If you have (or know of) an article or post that you would like to have included in the round-up, [...]

Update on October Term 2012 and a new Stat Pack

This is another post in an ongoing series analyzing statistical trends at the Court. For a more complete look at the statistics that we collect on the Court, you can find all of our up-to-date charts and graphs here. We are happy to present the third interim Stat Pack for October Term 2012. This edition [...]

Thursday round-up

We have changed our round-up format!  In an effort to simplify the process for our round-up team, going forward we will only include in the round-up news articles and posts that are submitted to us.  If you have (or know of) an article or post that you would like to have included in the round-up, [...]

Tuesday round-up

We have changed our round-up format!  In an effort to simplify the process for our round-up team, going forward we will only include in the round-up news articles and posts that are submitted to us.  If you have (or know of) an article or post that you would like to have included in the round-up, [...]

Friday round-up

Thursday’s coverage of the Court focused on some of the high-profile cases argued recently at the Court, as well as some of the cases that will be argued later this Term. Last week’s arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry and United States v. Windsor, the challenges to California’s Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (respectively), continued [...]

Monday round-up

After last week’s oral arguments in the same-sex marriage cases, this weekend’s clippings continue to focus on both Hollingsworth v. Perry, the challenge to California Proposition 8, and United States v. Windsor, the challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act.  Nina Totenberg of NPR discussed the arguments in both cases on NPR’s Weekend Edition, [...]

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