

Amanda Frost Academic Round-up
Amanda Frost is a professor of law at American University Washington College of Law, where she specializes in constitutional law, immigration law and the federal courts and federal jurisdiction. Before entering academia, Frost clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and spent five years as a staff attorney at Public Citizen, where she litigated cases at all levels of the federal judicial system. She has also worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee, serves as a supervising attorney in the Immigrant Justice Clinic, and spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar studying transparency reform in the European Union.
On Tuesday the justices released their opinions in Sessions v. Dimaya, Wilson v. Sellers and United States v. Microsoft. They also heard oral argument in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. and Lamar, Archer & Cofrin, LLP v. Appling.
On Wednesday the justices heard oral argument in Lagos v. United States and Washington v. United States.
On Friday the justices will meet for their April 20 conference; our “petitions to watch” for that conference will available soon.
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Cases decided | 18 |
Summary reversals | 6 |
Merits cases granted to date | 63 |
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Justice Stephen Breyer spoke at the National Constitution Center with the center’s president and CEO, Jeffrey Rosen. The video also includes a discussion on the First Amendment by professors Jud Campbell, Stephen Solomon and Nadine Strossen.
![]() | Awarded the Peabody Award for excellence in electronic media. |
![]() | Awarded the Sigma Delta Chi deadline reporting award for online coverage of the Affordable Care Act decision. |
![]() | Awarded the National Press Club's Breaking News Award for coverage of the Affordable Care Act decision. |
![]() | Awarded the Silver Gavel Award by the American Bar Association for fostering the American public’s understanding of the law and the legal system. |
![]() | Awarded the American Gavel Award for Distinguished Reporting About the Judiciary to recognize the highest standards of reporting about courts and the justice system. |
![]() | Awarded the Webby Award for excellence on the internet. |
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