Supreme Court decision on copyright Read More ...

U.S. Supreme Court finds a ministerial exception to employment discrimination law Read More ...

September 17, 2011, is the 224th anniversary of the United States Constitution Read More ...

Intellectual property and research funded by the federal government Read More ...

Two Michigan Law grads on opposite sides of a Supreme Court case this month Read More ...

Gathering information about the new Supreme Court term Read More ...

The Supreme Court's reporter of decisions prepares the Court's opinions for publication. The current reporter, Frank Wagner, is retiring. Tony Mauro of the National Law Journal has a fascinating interview with him. Read More ...

Links to yesterday's opinions Read More ...

Limiting the scope of "honest services" fraud Read More ...

Police department review of a police officer's text messages on the pager provided to him by the city which employed him did not violate the officer?s Fourth Amendment rights Read More ...

Records released by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Read More ...

Former Somali prime minister is not protected by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Read More ...

Supreme Court decides criminal suspects must state they wish to remain silent Read More ...

Coverage of the Supreme Court nomination Read More ...

U.S. Supreme Court First Amendment decision Read More ...

Supreme Court oral argument following Christian Legal Society v. Martinez Read More ...

Supreme Court oral argument on Monday Read More ...

The Supremes in a lighter moment Read More ...

Wednesday's oral argument at the US Supreme Court Read More ...

Gun control argument at SCOTUS Read More ...

Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Read More ...

The aftermath of Kelo v. New London... Read More ...

Opening of the U.S. Supreme Court term Read More ...

Celebrate the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787 Read More ...

Supreme Court argument 9/9/09 Read More ...

The more things change& Read More ...

The Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court justice nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, is being held today. You can watch the live video stream via CSPAN here. Read More ...

Links to opinion and orders released today Read More ...

Two prominent legal scholars, Erwin Chemerinsky and Ilya Somin, are debating the Sotomayor nomination in the L.A. Times. Chemerinsky is a well-known liberal constitutional law scholar who is currently the dean at UC Irvine's School of Law. Ilya Somin is a conservative constitutional law and property professor at George Mason. Read More ...

Retirement from the U. S. Supreme Court Read More ...

News and law review articles Read More ...

It has been announced this morning that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman currently serving on the US Supreme Court, underwent surgery to remove a tumor from her pancreas. Ginsburg, age 75, is largely regarded as a consistently liberal voice on the court. Sadly, pancreatic cancer only has a five-year survival rate of 10 to 30 percent. Read More ...

Law to amend Title VII, Civil Rights Act of 1964 Read More ...

New York Times article by Noah Feldman Read More ...

There is an online debate on the Heller decision between Stanford's Jack Rakove and UCLA's Eugene Volokh. The site, Bloggingheads, is hosting the debate. Read More ...

In light of the court relying on the false assumption that a federal statute permitting the death penalty for child rape did not exist, the Washington Post has today published an editorial calling upon the court to re-hear the case. A number of legal bloggers and others have been discussing how a federal statute in the Uniform Code of Military Justice does permit the death penalty for members of the armed forces for the crime of raping a child. Read More ...

An interesting development in the recently decided Kennedy v. Louisiana case has emerged. The case dealt with the application of the death penalty for child rape. One of the reasons stated by the court for its decision banning the death penalty for child rape pivoted upon the fact that only 6 states, and not the federal government, permit it. This has turned out to be incorrect because in 2006 Congress made child rape punishable by death for members of the armed forces. Read More ...

The Federalist Society does a yearly review of the cases decided by the Supreme Court. This year's review was recorded by C-SPAN and is now available online in RealPlayer format. Additionally, the American Constitution Society also hosted a panel reviewing this year's SCOTUS decisions which is also available via C-SPAN. Read More ...

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John Roberts, cited to a Bob Dylan song lyric in his dissent on a case involving pay phone operators and long distance phone companies. Adam Liptak at the New York Times writes a humorous article about this case, and others which has cited to song lyrics. Read More ...

Several notable legal bloggers have drawn attention to a section in the opinion of District of Columbia v. Heller and how it may be advancing a feminist argument against gun control. They are specifically pointing out the sentence, "it is easier to use for those without the upper-body strength to lift and aim a long gun", and how the court considered gender in its decision. Read More ...

Douglas Berman (a law professor at Ohio State University) in his blog, Sentencing Law and Policy, writes on the criminal law implications of today's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. He writes how the court found possession of handguns to be an individual right which can be exercised by all Americans and how this impacts those convicted of gun crimes or have sentencing enhancements. Read More ...

The Supreme Court of the United States announced their decision today in the District of Columbia v. Heller case. The court found that the second amendment is indeed a personal right, and that restrictions on handguns (such as those in D.C.), are unconstitutional. Here are some reactions from legal bloggers. Read More ...

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled today in, Kennedy v. Louisiana, that the death penalty cannot be given to those convicted of child rape. The case is seen as an important indication of the future of the death penalty in the United States. It continues a pattern in the court, beginning with the 1977 Coker v. Georgia decision, which banned the death penalty for the rape of adult women. Read More ...

The Supreme Court released today its decision on the Boumediene v. Bush case. At issue was whether non-citizens held in military custody have a constitutional right to habeas relief. The ruling represents a major loss for the Bush Administration. Read More ...

The SCOTUS ruled today on an important search-and-seizure coming out of Virginia Read More ...

An interesting article appearing on the blog, Law School Innovation, discusses the role Internet legal research had to play in the recent Baze case before the SCOTUS Read More ...

SCOTUS ruled today that drunk driving is not a "violent felony" that can be used to enhance prison sentences Read More ...