Argument: November 12, 2019Petitioner Brief: DHS, et al.Respondent Briefs: California, et al., Regents, et al., D.C., New York, et al., DACA Recipients, et al.
Courts below: Ninth Circuit, Second Circuit and D.C. District Court.
The
Argument: November 4, 2019Petitioner Brief: KansasRespondent Briefs: Charles Glover
Supreme Court of Kansas
Did the patrol officer make a fair assumption in pulling Glover over?The Fourth Amendment prohibits patrol officers from stopping just any car on the street. But
Arguments: October 8, 2019Altitude Express v. Zarda (briefs on sexual orientation) (Second Circuit opinion)Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia (briefs on sexual orientation) (Eleventh Circuit opinion)R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC/Stephens
Argument: December 2, 2019Petitioner Brief: New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc., et alRespondent Briefs: City of New York, et al
Court below: United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Supreme Court wants a piece of the NYC
Google and other cool technology companies have set the employee-keep-happy standards in Silicon Valley. Games, yoga, personal time. These fit into the companies’ shareholder obligations, which despite the do-gooder pretense, always come back to profit.That’s what the invisible hand
Final Rule: August 14, 2019Complaint: August 16, 2019Plaintiffs: California, et alDefendants: DHS, et al.
Court below: Northern District of California
Four States and D.C. ask a federal judge to block the government’s new “Public Charge Rule”For a long
Argument: October 7, 2019Petitioner Brief: Evangelisto RamosRespondent Briefs: Louisiana
Court below: Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal
Convicted of murder by 10 of 12 jurors – is that enough?Evangelisto Ramos was convicted of murder by a 12 member jury,
Argument: October 7, 2019Petitioner Brief: James Kraig KahlerRespondent Briefs: Kansas
Supreme Court of Kansas
Supreme Court poised to take a deeper look at “insanity” in criminal lawKraig Kahler faces the death penalty for murdering his wife, his two daughters
Trump isn’t the only one who is racistPresident Trump made some racist remarks on Twitter this week. He told four of his most powerful women critics to go “back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from
The case that solidified the role of the judiciaryMarbury v. Madison is one of the most important cases in Supreme Court history — perhaps the most important. The Constitution was signed in 1787 with some very important principles that we
