Nominations

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Stat Pack Tabs

Snapshot Merits Cases OT10 Total merits opinions: 82 Cases decided after oral argument: 75 Summary reversals: 5 Aff’d by an equally divided court: 2 Total merits opinions expected: 82 Cases scheduled for OT 11: 41 Pace of Grants Grants by Conference (OT2006-OT2011) Pace of Opinions Opinion Distribution (OT2006-OT2010) Circuits Circuit Report for October Term 2010 [...]

Senator Reid

Washington, DC"” Nevada Senator Harry Reid released the following statement today in reaction to the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court: "President Obama has chosen a worthy nominee to replace Justice Stevens, a jurist who Americans have respected and admired for so many years. I [...]

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 [...]

Friday 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, [...]

The Court “DIGs” in Boyer v. Louisiana – and sometimes silence can speak volumes.

One might joke that Monday’s order in  Boyer v. Louisiana, dismissing the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted (“DIG”), was issued to eliminate all traces of Justice Thomas’s single recorded oral argument remark in seven years (as noted in my summary of the oral argument).  But the Justices plainly did not view this dismissal as [...]

Details on today’s opinions

In McBurney v. Young, a unanimous Court (in an opinion by Justice Alito) held that Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act, which grants Virginia citizens access to all public records, but grants no such right to non-Virginians, does not violate the Privileges and Immunities Clause, which protects only those privileges and immunities that are “fundamental.”  Nor, the Court held, [...]

Argument recap: Close call on Title VII retaliation case

Yesterday the Court heard oral argument in University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center v. Nassar.  As I explained in the preview, at issue in the case is whether a Title VII plaintiff alleging retaliation must show that retaliation was the “but for” cause of his termination or was instead simply one of several “motivating factors.”  [...]

Argument recap: Who makes law?

Analysis A close student of the criminal law who did not sit in on Wednesday’s Supreme Court argument in a Michigan murder case missed a fascinating — and far from conclusive — seminar on who makes criminal law: courts that rule, legislatures that write laws, lawyers who try to assert defenses, prosecutors who don’t object to such defenses, [...]

Opinion recap: Easing a severe drug law

If a non-citizen living legally in the U.S. gets convicted in state court for ”social sharing of a small amount of marijuana,” the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, that individual should not be subject to automatic deportation, with no chance to stay in the U.S. or no chance to return if once sent away. The Court, by a [...]

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