And the Alito Court marches on; this was, alas, all too predictable. More when the opinions are released....opinions in pdf form here. Will post links to a format compatible with ongoing computer operation when they're up....Christy has a good take here.
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Today's "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" case actually turns on relatively narrow grounds. The problem with Roberts' opinion is that it turns on a claim that punishing the student was justified.
The Court's 5-4 decision today in Hein v. FFRF makes it much more difficult to challenge programs -- in this case, the Bush administration's decision, thorough executive order, to funnel.
Proving once again how astute Nader was to argue that control of the executive branch is irrelevant, a dismal looking day at the Supreme Court with the moderate Sam Alito writinga 5-4 opinion gutting standing in environmental Establishment Clause cases and Roberts writing an opinion...
Kia Franklin has a post on two new cases that make successful securities litigation more difficult. A few additional notes about the Tellabs case, which came down this week:The case.
To those who demand competent acting, I say "Vaffanculo!"I, for one, am happy that an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court is taking jurisprudential lessons from sixth-rate torture porn. What's.
The Supreme Court held this week that securities underwriting should not be subject to antitrust law. (Try to control your excitement please.) If I understand correctly from contacts who are actual experts in the field, what's important about this case is not so much the...
The Times on the Bowles decision:If the Supreme Court, with its new conservative majority, wanted to announce that it was getting out of the fairness business, it could hardly have.
In a 5-4 division of justices I'm already sick of, on Thursday the Supreme Court overruled two precedents to throw out an appeal to a murder conviction as being outside.
Simon Lazarus and Rochelle Bobroff have more on Alito in the wake of his casting the decisive vote in the awful Ledbetter decision:In the meantime, they can expect more opinions in this vein from the Roberts Court. Justice Alito's solicitude for employers is not new....
As Ruth Bader Ginsburg notes, the evidence of gender discrimination in the case of Ledbetter v. Goodyear, decided today by the Supreme Court, is unambiguous:Lilly Ledbetter was a supervisor at.
I like Bill Richardson, and hope that he becomes a viable candidate in the primary. But his choice of "Whizzer White" as his ideal Supreme Court Justice in tonight's debate.