Greetings, Court Fans! This week, while a potential ninth justice lectured the Senate Judiciary Committee on everything from fly fishing to “mutton busting” (but not on the age-old question of whether one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses would win...
Greetings, Court Fans! This morning, the Court issued its decision in Moore v. Texas (15-797), an important death-penalty case holding that Texas’s outdated standard for determining whether a death-row inmate is intellectually disabled violates the Eighth...
Greetings, Court Fans! The Eight are Nine again. After over a year of operating short-handed, the Court is finally at full strength, as Justice Neil Gorsuch joined his colleagues on the bench this week to hear arguments for the first time. Meanwhile, we at the Update...
Greetings, Court Fans! The Nine wrapped up arguments for OT16 last week, so it’s time to start playing catch-up. This Update will get us most of the way there, with summaries of: Lewis v. Clarke (No. 15-1500), a rare case from the Connecticut Supreme Court...
Greetings, Court Fans! The Nine (well, eight of them, with Gorsuch still taking no part in decisions argued before his appointment) were back in action yesterday, issuing three new opinions touching on the Federal Arbitration Act (Kindred Nursing Centers v. Clark (No....
