Over a dissent by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court on Monday sent the case of a Texas woman convicted of hiring someone to commit murder back to the lower…
The Supreme Court on Monday morning that called for a new trial for the man convicted of the 1979 kidnapping and murder of Etan Patz, one of the first missing…
The Supreme Court on Monday morning added one new case, involving the ability to sue federal officials for violating constitutional rights even when there is no law specifically authorizing such…
In Hunter v. United States the Supreme Court held that a federal defendant’s waiver of appellate review is unenforceable if it would result in a miscarriage of justice. Although the…
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It’s not often that opinions written by Justices Neil Gorsuch, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Samuel Alito agree on how to decide a Second Amendment case. In United States v. Hemani…
Plus, we’re expecting an order list this morning and opinion announcements tomorrow and Thursday.
Plus, laws on “habitual drunkards” featured prominently in the court’s latest Second Amendment ruling.
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday clarified the scope of a doctrine limiting lower federal courts’ authority to review state-court judgments. In an opinion from Justice Sonia Sotomayor in T.M.…
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in United States v. Hemani that the federal government cannot prosecute a Texas man on charges that he violated a federal law barring users…