By Tony Mauro | April 2, 2018
Sotomayor's dissents on Monday fit her longtime practice of speaking out in cases in which defendants, in her view, are given short shrift.
By Tony Mauro | March 27, 2018
Some justices seemed sympathetic to the problems caused by splintered opinions for lower court judges especially when, as Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. put it, “If I'm a court of appeals judge, it seems to me the most important thing in deciding the case is to make sure that I'm not reversed.”
By Marcia Coyle | March 27, 2018
"The demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform,” Stevens said in a New York Times op-ed. “They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.” At the high court, the justices have shown no strong appetite to dive into the Second Amendment in recent years.
By Tony Mauro | March 26, 2018
Warm letters between the late Justice Brennan and Merrick Garland were among a section of Brennan's papers at the Library of Congress that were closed to the public until last year, the 20th anniversary of his death.
By Marcia Coyle | March 26, 2018
The Justice Department in June, under U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, announced a new policy that generally prohibits government attorneys from entering into settlement agreements that require “cy pres” payments. Still, DOJ did not want the Supreme Court to disturb this settlement.
By Erin Mulvaney | March 22, 2018
A recent memorandum from the NLRB general counsel's office identified 152 cases awaiting the Supreme Court decision. Of those, 52 are on hold in appeals courts around the country.
By Marcia Coyle | March 19, 2018
U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch on Monday chided their colleagues for passing up “another opportunity” to end the “constitutionally suspect” power of federal agencies to interpret their own regulations.
By Marcia Coyle | March 14, 2018
A legal writing professor's examination of U.S. Supreme Court decisions shows the justices usually achieve unanimity on most matters of style. But on three points—conjunctions, possessives and fragments—the justices divide.
By Tony Mauro | March 14, 2018
Part of the problem surrounding Justice Antonin Scalia's death, the documents reveal, was that he chose not to have federal protection while at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, the hunting resort where he died in February 2016.
By Tony Mauro | March 13, 2018
“Any harassment in the judiciary is too much,” James Duff, director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, told the Judicial Conference in an interim report on Tuesday.
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