Wednesday round-up
on Sep 10, 2014 at 7:42 am
Yesterday Indiana and Wisconsin both filed petitions asking the Court to review a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit striking down their respective bans on same-sex marriage. Lyle covered the filings for this blog; other coverage comes from Lauren Raab of the Los Angeles Times and Tim Evans of the Indianapolis Star (via USA Today).
Briefly:
- At Slate, Mark Joseph Stern discusses the Court’s use of facts in its opinions, and he suggests that “Justices already set on a particular ruling may contort facts—outside data, or even facts about the case itself—to support their judgments.”
- At Business Insider, Erin Fuchs previews next month’s argument in Holt v. Hobbs, in which the Justices will consider whether an Arkansas prison policy that generally prohibits inmates from growing a beard violates the religious rights of a Muslim prisoner who believes that his religion requires him to grow a beard.
- In The National Law Journal’s Supreme Court Brief, Anthony Franze and R. Reeves Anderson analyze the Court’s amicus brief docket and conclude that “amici provide information, perspectives and arguments that the court finds helpful to its decision-making process — even if the justices don’t always agree with their ‘friends.’”
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