The Castle Rock Debate Continues
Richard Smith, the lead counsel for one of the principal amici supporting the respondent in the Castle Rock case, has this post entering the debate on the Discussion Board.
June 2005 Archive
Every post published in June 2005, most recent first.
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Religious Symbols and Funding — the Feldman/Balkin/Berg/Garnett “Debate”
In the wake of the Ten Commandments cases, the New York Times Magazine this Sunday is publishing excerpts from Noah Feldman’s forthcoming book on the “Church-State problem.” One of Feldman’s provocative theses is that the Court should be more permissive in the “religious symbolism” cases (a broad
Final Versions of Term Summary Documents
Here are the final versions of our term wrap-up documents. Thanks to Brian Fletcher, Anisha Dasgupta, and Katie TafollaYoung for their work on them. Here is the memo highlighting notable statistics. Here are the voting relationships. Here are the remaining statistics. Here is the circuit scorecard.
A Visual Guide for the Term’s Leading Cases
Booker/Fanfan Part I Part II Cutter Grokster Heald/Swedenburg Kelo Livestock Marketing Medellin Raich Roper Van Orden/McCreary County Van Orden McCreary County
The 5-4 Cases And Thoughts On Any New Nominee
Earlier today, we posted the annual statistics on the Term. I thought I would take a closer look at the 5-4 cases. (Note: in this post, I’m using the term “conservative” as shorthand for “more conservative” and to refer to the Chief, and Justices O’Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas.
Term Summaries
If you know of Term summaries (or even press releases) that have been published by various organizations, please email them to me. Here is the summary prepared by Steve Shapiro of the ACLU. Here is an analysis published by People for the American Way (Hat Tip: How Appealing).
Supreme Court Wrap Up Events
After the jump are all the events wrapping up the Supreme Court Term that I know about, presented in chronological order. Please excuse any and all formatting glitches. I’m doing a lot of cutting and pasting here.
“Imagined Resignations”
From an article in the Fulton County Daily Report: Thomas’ five-minute address included a suggestion that no member of his court was planning to retire.
The White House’s Nomination Process
On the Nomination Blog, I have a short post about Jan Crawford Greenburg’s most recent story.
Blog Round-up – Wednesday, June 29th
PrawfsBlog has this post on the end of the term and whether or not it is unlawful to threaten to seize Justice Souter’s home. The Picker MobBlog has numerous entries on Grokster. Here is the latest one.