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Soule et al v. Connecticut Association of Schools, Inc. et al (filed 2/12/20)
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Lessig v. The New York Times et al (filed 1/13/20)
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

The Geo Group, Inc. v. Newsom et al (filed 12/30/19)
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Lydia Olson et al v. State of California et al (filed 12/30/19)
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Western States Trucking Association v. Xavier Becerra, et al (filed 12/19/19)
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc., et al v. Xavier Becerra (filed 12/17/19)
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Now available on Oyez: This week’s oral argument audio aligned with the transcripts
SCOTUSblog, February 28, 2020

Oyez has posted the aligned audio and transcripts from this week’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court. The court heard argument this week in: U.S. Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Association Opati v. Sudan United States v. Sineneng-Smith Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez The post Now available on Oyez: This week’s oral argument audio aligned with the transcripts appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

Argument analysis: Does prejudice matter?
SCOTUSblog, February 27, 2020

The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez, this term’s case about the hastily drafted and much-litigated 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act. Under the PLRA’s “three strikes” provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g), absent “imminent danger of serious physical injury,” prisoners may not file or appeal a federal civil action in forma pauperis if…

How Will Trump’s Supreme Court Remake America?
The New York Times, February 27, 2020

On abortion, gun rights and more, the future could be determined by how fully the court’s new conservative majority embraces a rigid understanding of the Constitution.

Is a Gunshot Wound a Seizure?
Justia's Verdict, February 26, 2020

Cornell law professor Sherry F. Colb comments on a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether a police officer who shot and hit a fleeing suspect “seized” that suspect, thereby triggering the Fourth Amendment, even though the wounded suspect escaped the police. Colb explains some of the arguments and predicts an outcome that would affirm precedents and offers a compromise between competing constitutional concerns.

At Supreme Court, a Case on Abuse of the No-Fly List
The New York Times, February 24, 2020

Three Muslim men say F.B.I. agents tried to use the list to coerce them into becoming informants, in violation of a federal law protecting religious freedom.

Press Release Regarding Justice Ginsburg
Supreme Court of the United States, November 23, 2019