Recent Decisions
Trump v. New York (December 18, 2020)
Supreme Court dismisses, as premature, challenges to the President's policy of excluding undocumented immigrants from census calculations.
Shinn v. Kayer (December 14, 2020)
Supreme Court vacates a Ninth Circuit order granting habeas relief on grounds of ineffective assistance in a trial for premeditated first-degree murder.
United States v. Briggs (December 10, 2020)
Although the Supreme Court has held that the Eighth Amendment forbids a death sentence for the rape of an adult woman, such a rape may be considered a military offense punishable by death for purposes of the statute of limitations under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Tanzin v. Tanvir (December 10, 2020)
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act permits litigants, when appropriate, to obtain money damages against federal officials in their individual capacities.
Carney v. Adams (December 10, 2020)
Plaintiff lacked standing to challenge Delaware's political balance requirement for appointments to the state’s major courts, absent any evidence that he was “able and ready” to apply for a judicial vacancy in the imminent future.
Latest Supreme Court News
I’m Haunted by What I Did as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department
The New York Times,
No matter our intentions, lawyers like me were complicit. We owe the country our honesty about what we saw — and should do in the future.
Justices Put Off Ruling on Trump Plan for Unauthorized Immigrants and Census
The New York Times,
The Supreme Court said a challenge to efforts to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the tabulations used to allocate House seats was premature.
Opinion analysis: Court tosses challenge to Trump’s plan to exclude unauthorized immigrants from congressional reapportionment
SCOTUSblog,
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that it was too early to resolve the legality of the Trump administration’s plan to exclude people who are in the country illegally from the state-by-state breakdown used to allocate seats in the House of Representatives. The decision puts at least a temporary end to the litigation challenging the…
Supreme Court Rejects Religious School’s Challenge to Kentucky Virus Order
The New York Times,
The governor had ordered all of the state’s K-12 schools, whether public or private, to close temporarily to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
Press Release Regarding January Oral Argument Session
Supreme Court of the United States,
Mandatory Vaccination and the Future of Abortion Rights
Justia's Verdict,
In light of recent news that Pfizer and Moderna have apparently created safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19, Cornell law professor Michael C. Dorf considers whether the government can mandate vaccination for people who lack a valid medical reason not to get vaccinated. Dorf briefly addresses issues of federalism and religious objections to vaccination and then addresses the question whether mandatory vaccination might be inconsistent with a right to abortion.
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