Academic highlight: Free speech and the Roberts Court
The Albany Law Review has recently posted its Fall Symposium on the Supreme Court’s free speech decisions.
May 2013 Archive
Every post published in May 2013, most recent first.
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Update on October Term 2012 and updated 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 fourth interim Stat Pack for October Term 2012.
Friday round-up
Yesterday’s coverage and commentary focused primarily on opinions that the Court recently issued and those that it is expected to issue in the coming weeks.
Petitions to watch | Conference of June 6, 2013
At its June 6, 2013 Conference, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as the constitutionality of a state law protecting union picketing on private property, restitution for child pornography victims, the constitutional relevance of a defendant’s knowledge of an ordinance prohibiting “wholly passive conduct,” and patent infringement liability for joint performance of a process patent .
Forthcoming books: Larry Tribe and others comment on the Court and the Constitution
Forty-five years after the publication of his first book (Technology: Process of Assessment and Choice), Laurence Tribe is preparing to release another book, tentatively titled Uncertain Justice (2014). Henry Holt is the publisher, and the famed John Sterling will serve as editor of the project.
Thursday round-up
Tuesday’s opinions and order list continue to generate coverage and commentary. At this blog, Jordan Steiker discusses the opinion in McQuiggin v. Perkins, in which the Court held that an actual innocence plea can overcome the one-year statute of limitations for habeas petitions; other coverage of McQuiggin comes from Dominic Perella at MSNBC.
The Term’s final conferences are set
With the great help of Mary Pat Dwyer, on the Blog’s Petitions page, we have identified by conference each of the paid petitions I think has a significant chance of being granted between now and the end of the Term.
Wednesday round-up
Yesterday the Court issued two opinions in argued cases.
Opinion analysis: Innocence exception survives, innocence claim does not (Updated)
Jordan Steiker is the Judge Robert M. Parker Chair in Law and Co-Director, Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas School of Law. Yesterday a closely divided Court concluded that a proper showing of “actual innocence” is sufficient to circumvent the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act’s (AEDPA) statute of limitations.
Opinion analysis: A Texas- (and capital-)specific result to usher in a new wave of case law?
As we noted in our argument preview, the Supreme Court held last Term in Martinez v. Ryan that, where a state requires a criminal defendant to raise an ineffective assistance claim in collateral post-conviction proceedings, rather than on direct appeal, the ineffectiveness of the defendant’s