Thursday round-up
Parsing Brown v. EMA and the campaign-finance decision, the nine best dissents of the Term, and the Justices at the Aspen Idea Festival.
June 2011 Archive
Every post published in June 2011, most recent first.
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Hail and farewell
Personnel changes at the blog
Term review: A more activist Court
The Court has just finished a Term in which its tendency to decide cases more broadly than necessary — an activist inclination — appeared to deepen.
Opinion analysis: No jurisdiction over foreign companies
On Monday, the Court issued its decision in Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown and J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro.
The last week of the Term: In Plain English
The Term ended on Monday with opinions in the violent video games and campaign finance cases, as well as two others in cases about the procedural concept of personal jurisdiction.
Wednesday round-up
The Court grants two new cases; more discussion of Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association; October Term 2010 retrospectives.
Relist and Hold Watch: June wrap-up
John Elwood reviews the Court’s June 27 and 28 order lists.
Health insurance mandate survives — narrowly
A federal appeals court, the first at its level to rule, upholds the new health insurance purchase mandate, but does so only by a thin margin that leaves the provision open to later challenges if the law actually goes into effect in 2014.
Evening round-up
The Court issues (among others) its long-awaited decision in the violent video games case, as well as a decision on Arizona’s campaign-finance laws.
Tobacco challenge ends; a pile of grants
The Court refuses to hear a major case seeking to impose constitutional limits on class-action lawsuits. In a round of orders issued during its last public session of the Term, it sets 11 new cases for decision at its next Term.