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Marcia Coyle, based in Washington, covers the U.S. Supreme Court. Contact her at [email protected]. On Twitter: @MarciaCoyle
November 3, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief
In a court where, as one justice has said, Fourth Amendment cases are a "growth industry," the current U.S. Supreme Court term stands in stark contrast with only one, rather traditional case granted so far. But the stakes could change dramatically with the addition of one more—a politically sensitive challenge that involves a U.S. Border Patrol agent's shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican boy on Mexican soil.
By Marcia Coyle
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November 2, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief
The business community's fear of massive class-action liability and consumers' quest for privacy and accuracy in the Internet age collided before a divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in a case that involved the data collection website Spokeo Inc.
By Marcia Coyle
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October 28, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief
Gun rights advocates hope an assault weapons challenge will finally draw the U.S. Supreme Court back into the realm of the Second Amendment even as gun-related tragedies dominate headlines.
By Marcia Coyle
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October 27, 2015 | National Law Journal
A public official who cannot in good conscience enforce a law he or she thinks is morally corrupt has a duty to either resign or enforce the law, Justice Anthony Kennedy told a group of Harvard Law School students recently. Kennedy covered a broad range of topics and in doing so may have revealed a source of his concern and dislike of solitary confinement.
By Marcia Coyle
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October 13, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief
In a lethal-injection dissent last term, Justice Stephen Breyer's call for reconsideration of the death penalty's constitutionality captured headlines and re-fired the debate, but he sowed the seeds of that June dissent more than a decade ago in a case at the heart of Tuesday's arguments in a challenge to Florida's capital-punishment system.
By Marcia Coyle
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October 7, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief
The Roberts Court's dislike of class actions and its loyalty—sometimes divided—to arbitration have levied knock-out blows to consumers and small businesses. But a counterpunch may be on the way.
By Marcia Coyle
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October 5, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief
There were no missing pages in the 76-page "orders" list as there were a year ago. There was no rapid hunt through those pages by reporters scanning for a long-anticipated, high-profile issue of the year as there was with same-sex marriage. What a difference a year can make in the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Marcia Coyle and Tony Mauro
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September 30, 2015 | National Law Journal
The justices have agreed to decide 34 cases thus far. After their long conference earlier this week, they were expected to add a number of cases to their decision docket after culling through more than a thousand petitions filed throughout the summer months. Some court observers predict conservative victories in the new term's major cases. But the key question is: "How big will the wins be?"
By Marcia Coyle
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September 28, 2015 | National Law Journal
Significant challenges that involve abortion, solitary confinement, insider trading and other contentious questions await the justices' decisions on whether to add them to the new term of the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Marcia Coyle
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September 23, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief
As the U.S. Supreme Court begins to tackle new cases that could become landmarks in the October 2015 term, C-SPAN, in cooperation with the National Constitution Center, launches a new series that examines in depth 12 older landmark cases that helped to shape the meaning of the Constitution.
By Marcia Coyle
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