SCOTUSblog is a law blog written by lawyers, law professors, and law students about the Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes abbreviated "SCOTUS")

Shoop; the opinion was joined by Justice Sotomayor. Two contributors to SCOTUSBlog noted that, since joining the Court at the beginning of the 2022 term

Supreme Court of the United States Scotus Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland SCOTUSblog Scotus Central Catholic High School, Nebraska Scotus College, Glasgow

26, 2015). "Opinion Analysis: Marriage Now Open to Same-Sex Couples". SCOTUSblog. Retrieved July 2, 2015. Wolf, Richard (June 24, 2015). "Timeline: Same-Sex

SCOTUSblog. Retrieved April 20, 2020. Howe, Amy (March 6, 2017). "Opinion analysis: Divided court rules for defendant in juror-bias case". SCOTUSblog

A divided Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former presidents can never be prosecuted for actions relating to the core powers of their office, and that t…

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About Us SCOTUSblog is devoted to covering the U.S. Supreme Court comprehensively, without bias and according to the highest journalistic and legal ethic…

Case Authors Each term, SCOTUSblog relies on legal scholars and expert practitioners to help us cover every case that is argued before the Supreme Court.…

On Thursday, Sept. 17, the National Constitution Center awarded its Liberty Medal to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a program featuring performances by i…

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Court adds three new cases The Supreme Court on Monday added three more cases for its decision docket in the next Term, including a new test of police au…

Argument Recap: Yeager v. US At Monday’s oral argument in Yeager v. United States, the Supreme Court wrestled with how to make sense of what went on be…

Opinion Recap: US v. Santos At issue in No. 06-1005, United States v. Santos, was whether the term “proceeds,” as used in the federal money-launderin…

Court rejects DNA access claim CORRECTION 3:50 p.m.: The paragraph describing the Court’s ruling in Yeager v. U.S. was in error as published. F. Scott Ye…

Follow-ups to Boumediene begin Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees, with their clients newly eligible to challenge their continued imprisonment, have be…

Court rejects campaign ad case The Supreme Court on Monday summarily rejected an appeal by a conservative advocacy group seeking a chance to use radio an…

Argument Preview: Yeager v. US Under the doctrine of collateral estoppel, a prior court’s decision on an issue necessary to its judgment can preclude r…

Preview: Strip-search of students The Supreme Court will hear oral argument at 10 a.m. Tuesday on Safford Unified School District, et al., v. Redding (08…

SCOTUSwiki Preview: Herring v. US During the summer months, we’ll be periodically posting wiki previews for OT 2008 cases. Akin summer associate and risi…

Opinion Recap: Pearson v Callahan On Wednesday, in an opinion authored by Justice Alito, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Tenth Circuit’s dec…

Court gives detainees habeas rights UPDATE, 1:03 p.m. The District Court judges in Washington who will hear the detainees’ habeas challenges mandated by …

Movies, somewhat akin to documentaries but with a distinct and sometimes sharp political edge, are becoming a prominent mode of campaigning in national e…

Argument Preview: Vermont v. Brillon The Speedy Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment provides that “[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjo…

The Surpassing Significance of Herring By way of full disclosure, I was one of the defendant’s lawyers in the Herring case, though my involvement in it w…

Analysis: How many ways to lose a case? By the time Justice Anthony M. Kennedy asked a government lawyer which of several ways he would prefer the Suprem…

Guest Commentary: Pearson v. Callahan Guest blogger and a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center Nancy Leong discusses Wednesday’s decision…

Court limits “violent felony” definition The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the crime of failure to report to jail or prison to serve a sentence is not…

U.S.: Detainee habeas cases would be slow The Justice Department, in a new brief in the pending Supreme Court cases on detainees’ legal rights, argued t…

Argument preview: Tobacco case, 3rd round At 10 a.m. Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Philip Morris USA, Inc., v. Williams (07-121…

For a long time, there was no statute of limitations for federal habeas claims. Federal courts applied a version of the doctrine of laches, which essent…

Analysis: A new day on punitive damages law Conspicuous in the Supreme Court’s lengthy and scholarly review Wednesday of the role punitive damages verdi…

Analysis: No big threat to investment houses If some of Wall Street’s major players — the giant invesment houses — were looking nervously toward the Supr…

SCOTUSwiki Preview: Van de Kamp v. Goldstein Of the many potential causes of wrongful convictions, one of the most common in recent decades has been fals…

Analysis: Focus on the mechanics of execution The Supreme Court on Monday showed an acute fascination with the detailed mechanics of executing criminals …

Boumediene Guest Commentary: Richard Samp of WLF This post was authored by Richard Samp of the Washington Legal Foundation. The group filed an amicus br…

Argument Preview: Gross v. FBL Financial Services On Tuesday morning, the Court will hear argument in Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., No. 08-441, …

Opinion Recap: Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Company Last Wednesday, in No. 07-411, the Supreme Court held that an Indian tribal court lacks jurisdiction …

More on Yesterday’s Opinion in Rowe v. New Hamp. MTA The following analysis is by Rachel Lee, a student in the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigati…

Boumediene Guest Commentary: Jonathan Hafetz of the Brennan Center This post was authored by Jonathan Hafetz of the Brennan Center for Justice at New Yor…

Scott Street, an associate in Akin Gump’s LA office, offers the following commentary on the oral argument in Pearson v. Callahan (07-751). When it heard …

Government Recommends Grant in No. 06-1204, Republic of the Philippines v. Pimentel In a brief filed on Friday, the federal government urged the dismissa…

Analysis: More power for police, more immunity for prosecutors In opinions so spare that the Supreme Court did not labor long to produce them, the Justic…

Conference Call: Prosecutors Ask High Court for Immunity The following column, featuring a selected petition up for consideration at the Justices’ priv…

Creative Commons Attribution/ Noncommercial/ No Derivative Works 3.0 United States SCOTUSblog is a law blog written by lawyers, law professors, and law s…

SCOTUSblog is a law blog written by lawyers, law professors, and law students about the Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes abbreviated "SCOTUS")

EMERGENCY DOCKET The justices on Friday rejected the Biden administration’s request to enforce a new rule expanding protections to students under Title IX…

Shoop; the opinion was joined by Justice Sotomayor. Two contributors to SCOTUSBlog noted that, since joining the Court at the beginning of the 2022 term

Supreme Court of the United States Scotus Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland SCOTUSblog Scotus Central Catholic High School, Nebraska Scotus College, Glasgow

26, 2015). "Opinion Analysis: Marriage Now Open to Same-Sex Couples". SCOTUSblog. Retrieved July 2, 2015. Wolf, Richard (June 24, 2015). "Timeline: Same-Sex

SCOTUSblog. Retrieved April 20, 2020. Howe, Amy (March 6, 2017). "Opinion analysis: Divided court rules for defendant in juror-bias case". SCOTUSblog

A divided Supreme Court on Monday ruled that former presidents can never be prosecuted for actions relating to the core powers of their office, and that t…

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About Us SCOTUSblog is devoted to covering the U.S. Supreme Court comprehensively, without bias and according to the highest journalistic and legal ethic…

Case Authors Each term, SCOTUSblog relies on legal scholars and expert practitioners to help us cover every case that is argued before the Supreme Court.…

On Thursday, Sept. 17, the National Constitution Center awarded its Liberty Medal to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a program featuring performances by i…

OPINION ANALYSIS Archives Sign up to receive a daily email digest from follow.it by entering your email. This website may use cookies to improve your exp…

Court upholds Trump-era corporate tax on foreign earnings Justices side with Starbucks in union organizing dispute Archives Sign up to receive a daily em…

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Court adds three new cases The Supreme Court on Monday added three more cases for its decision docket in the next Term, including a new test of police au…

Argument Recap: Yeager v. US At Monday’s oral argument in Yeager v. United States, the Supreme Court wrestled with how to make sense of what went on be…

Opinion Recap: US v. Santos At issue in No. 06-1005, United States v. Santos, was whether the term “proceeds,” as used in the federal money-launderin…

Court rejects DNA access claim CORRECTION 3:50 p.m.: The paragraph describing the Court’s ruling in Yeager v. U.S. was in error as published. F. Scott Ye…

Follow-ups to Boumediene begin Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees, with their clients newly eligible to challenge their continued imprisonment, have be…

Court rejects campaign ad case The Supreme Court on Monday summarily rejected an appeal by a conservative advocacy group seeking a chance to use radio an…

Argument Preview: Yeager v. US Under the doctrine of collateral estoppel, a prior court’s decision on an issue necessary to its judgment can preclude r…

Preview: Strip-search of students The Supreme Court will hear oral argument at 10 a.m. Tuesday on Safford Unified School District, et al., v. Redding (08…

SCOTUSwiki Preview: Herring v. US During the summer months, we’ll be periodically posting wiki previews for OT 2008 cases. Akin summer associate and risi…

Opinion Recap: Pearson v Callahan On Wednesday, in an opinion authored by Justice Alito, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Tenth Circuit’s dec…

Court gives detainees habeas rights UPDATE, 1:03 p.m. The District Court judges in Washington who will hear the detainees’ habeas challenges mandated by …

Movies, somewhat akin to documentaries but with a distinct and sometimes sharp political edge, are becoming a prominent mode of campaigning in national e…

Argument Preview: Vermont v. Brillon The Speedy Trial Clause of the Sixth Amendment provides that “[i]n all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjo…

The Surpassing Significance of Herring By way of full disclosure, I was one of the defendant’s lawyers in the Herring case, though my involvement in it w…

Analysis: How many ways to lose a case? By the time Justice Anthony M. Kennedy asked a government lawyer which of several ways he would prefer the Suprem…

Guest Commentary: Pearson v. Callahan Guest blogger and a visiting scholar at Georgetown University Law Center Nancy Leong discusses Wednesday’s decision…

Court limits “violent felony” definition The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the crime of failure to report to jail or prison to serve a sentence is not…

U.S.: Detainee habeas cases would be slow The Justice Department, in a new brief in the pending Supreme Court cases on detainees’ legal rights, argued t…

Argument preview: Tobacco case, 3rd round At 10 a.m. Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Philip Morris USA, Inc., v. Williams (07-121…

For a long time, there was no statute of limitations for federal habeas claims. Federal courts applied a version of the doctrine of laches, which essent…

Analysis: A new day on punitive damages law Conspicuous in the Supreme Court’s lengthy and scholarly review Wednesday of the role punitive damages verdi…

Analysis: No big threat to investment houses If some of Wall Street’s major players — the giant invesment houses — were looking nervously toward the Supr…

SCOTUSwiki Preview: Van de Kamp v. Goldstein Of the many potential causes of wrongful convictions, one of the most common in recent decades has been fals…

Analysis: Focus on the mechanics of execution The Supreme Court on Monday showed an acute fascination with the detailed mechanics of executing criminals …

Boumediene Guest Commentary: Richard Samp of WLF This post was authored by Richard Samp of the Washington Legal Foundation. The group filed an amicus br…

Argument Preview: Gross v. FBL Financial Services On Tuesday morning, the Court will hear argument in Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., No. 08-441, …

Opinion Recap: Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Company Last Wednesday, in No. 07-411, the Supreme Court held that an Indian tribal court lacks jurisdiction …

More on Yesterday’s Opinion in Rowe v. New Hamp. MTA The following analysis is by Rachel Lee, a student in the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigati…

Boumediene Guest Commentary: Jonathan Hafetz of the Brennan Center This post was authored by Jonathan Hafetz of the Brennan Center for Justice at New Yor…

Scott Street, an associate in Akin Gump’s LA office, offers the following commentary on the oral argument in Pearson v. Callahan (07-751). When it heard …

Government Recommends Grant in No. 06-1204, Republic of the Philippines v. Pimentel In a brief filed on Friday, the federal government urged the dismissa…

Analysis: More power for police, more immunity for prosecutors In opinions so spare that the Supreme Court did not labor long to produce them, the Justic…

Conference Call: Prosecutors Ask High Court for Immunity The following column, featuring a selected petition up for consideration at the Justices’ priv…

Creative Commons Attribution/ Noncommercial/ No Derivative Works 3.0 United States SCOTUSblog is a law blog written by lawyers, law professors, and law s…