Every post published in May 2018, most recent first.
For The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin reports that in Collins v. Virginia, in which the justices held on Tuesday that the automobile exception to the warrant requirement does not permit a warrantless search of a motorcycle parked in the driveway of a home, Justice Sonia “Sotomayor wrote that the
On June 12 at 1 p.m. EST, the State and Local Legal Center and the National Conference of State Legislatures will host a webinar entitled, “Sports Gambling is Legal: Now What?” Speakers include Richard Simpson and Ethan Wilson.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg may be the most “notorious” Supreme Court justice, but she is not the first to achieve some media celebrity while a sitting justice.
The current term at the Supreme Court has been anything but ordinary. With two argued cases already dismissed, the justices are down to 61 argued cases for possible signed decisions. This would tie last term for the fewest signed decisions in the modern court era.
Yesterday the Supreme Court released opinions in two argued cases. The first was Collins v. Virginia, in which the justices held 8-1 that the automobile exception to the warrant requirement does not permit a warrantless search of a motorcycle parked in the driveway of a home.
John Elwood reviews Tuesday’s relists. You know how every time news shows cut to a commercial after another boring segment, they tease the one interesting story about the dirtiest local restaurants/approaching swarm of killer bees/looming derecho, which they finally air in the program’s last two minutes?
In its conference of May 31, 2018, the court will consider petitions involving issues such as whether, pursuant to United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., the Supreme Court should vacate the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s judgment and instruct that court to remand the case
For The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin and Saleh Al-Batati report that “[a] disabled Yemeni girl, whose exclusion from the U.S. was questioned by Supreme Court justices reviewing the Trump administration’s travel ban, arrived Saturday in New York for resettlement.” At the Cato Institute’s Cato at
The pace of Supreme Court opinions continues to be at crawl, but we have two to talk about this week, both written by Justice Neil Gorsuch: Epic Systems Corp v. Lewis and Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Lundgren. We’ll also recap some new grants for OT2018 and answer a few hotline calls.
When two Virginia police officers searched for the motorcyclist who had eluded them by driving away at speeds of up to 140 miles per hour, they probably would not have imagined that the case would end up at the U.S. Supreme Court.