Monday round-up
Michael Kirkland of UPI breaks down the challenges to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate, which requires employers to provide their employees with access to health insurance that includes coverage for birth control.
September 2013 Archive
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Town of Greece v. Galloway: What is the Supreme Court up to?
Jessie Hill is a Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University. The Court’s decision to revisit legislative prayer on the thirtieth anniversary of Marsh v. Chambers, upholding the state of Nebraska’s legislative chaplaincy based on its perceived ratification by longstanding history and tradition, raises numerous questions about the direction its Establishment Clause jurisprudence might take.
New limit on war crimes trials?
The Obama administration’s strong effort to protect military prosecutors’ options to level the easiest-to-prove war crimes charges against terrorism suspects appeared on Monday to be facing a significant hurdle in the D.C. Circuit Court.
Court to remain open — for now
The Supreme Court will continue to operate at least through next Friday, October 4, even if much of the rest of the government shuts down because of an impasse in Congress over the federal budget.
This week at the Court
On Tuesday the Court issued orders from the September 30 Conference. (Lyle’s post on the orders is here.) The Court granted eight new cases. Next Monday is the first official day of the 2013 Term. We expect the denials from the September 30 Conference, in addition to other orders, at 9:30 a.m.
Friday round-up
Looking ahead to next month’s oral argument in McCutcheon v. FEC, in which the Court will consider the constitutionality of aggregate limits on campaign contributions, Ciara Torres-Spelliscy explains at Moyers & Company why, in her view, the Justices when voting should “remember the price of a
Symposium: Legislative prayer and judicial review
Richard W. Garnett is a Professor of Law at University of Notre Dame. After taking a year off from church-state cases, the Justices are set to jump back into the fray.
Thursday round-up
At Southern California Public Radio, Kitty Felde looks at some of the cases on the Court’s docket that hail from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, including Fernandez v. California, in which the Court will consider whether the police can search a dwelling over an absent defendant’s
SCOTUS for law students (sponsored by Bloomberg Law): Prayer at government meetings
When may public officials open their meetings with a prayer? The Supreme Court will attempt to answer this important question in the new Term that begins on October 7. The answer may be of considerable importance at many levels.
Symposium: Prayer and the machinery of the state
Daniel Mach is Director of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. In Town of Greece v. Galloway, the Supreme Court will address the contentious practice of legislative prayer for the first time in three decades.