Court sets 5 1/2-hour hearing on health care (FINAL)
FINAL UPDATE at 11:09 a.m. A separate post, coming shortly, will provide further analysis of the grants. (It is posted above this.) ———— Setting the stage for a historic constitutional confrontation...
View ArticleUPDATE: Court rejects Texas maps, delays W.Va. map
UPDATE 12:09 p.m. Two hours after issuing its ruling on Texas’s redistricting dispute, the Supreme Court put on hold a lower court’s decision striking down the West Virginia legislature’s new plan...
View ArticleArgument preview: When mootness and international family law collide
At Monday’s oral argument in Genesis HealthCare Corp. v. Symczyk, the Court considered whether a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action is moot when the employer offers to provide the plaintiff...
View ArticleUnderstanding standing: The Court’s Article III questions in the same-sex...
On March 26 and 27, the Court will hear oral argument in the same-sex marriage cases, Hollingsworth v. Perry (the challenge to California’s Proposition 8) and United States v. Windsor (the challenge to...
View ArticleCourt won’t review tobacco verdicts — again
For the eighth time in the past seven years, the Supreme Court refused on Monday to be drawn into the ongoing courtroom battle between Florida smokers or their heirs and the major tobacco companies....
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