Analysis The Supreme Court’s latest foray into the rights of student religious organizations on state-operated college campuses might have added to the recent pattern of expanding those rights.  But, along the way toward such a decision, a legal team’s stipulation narrowed the case down to a dispute over factual concessions, and the student group lost, having ...

Analysis  (updated 5:28 p.m.) Justice Antonin Scalia dismissed it as unnecessary and even unhelpful “excursus,” but the Supreme Court on Thursday gave the American people — increasingly devoted to their electronic communication devices — some broad hints that the Justices are sensitive to claims for protection for the privacy of exchanges in the Digital Age.  ...

The Supreme Court refused on Monday to reopen the issue of Congress’s power to order cable television systems to carry the programs of local broadcasters in their geographic areas.  Without comment, the Court declined to hear Cablevisions Systems Corp. v. Read the original post: No review of “must carry” rule

Beginning at 10 a.m. See the rest here:  LiveBlog: Opinions | 4.20.10

The Court issued one opinion only today.  In United States v. Go here to see the original:  Today’s opinion

The Supreme Court will issue orders in pending cases next Monday, but does not expect to issue any final opinions, it announced Friday.  The next possible date for opinions would be Tuesday, April 20.  (Coincidentally, that day is Justice John Paul Stevens’ 90th birthday.) See the original post here: No opinions Monday

Analysis It took the Supreme Court almost five months to sort out a modern sequel to the famous “Erie” decision, and it is no wonder.  In the end, Justice Antonin Scalia mustered just  enough votes to control the outcome, but an opinion that speaks only for Justice John Paul Stevens’ views turns out to be ...

Analysis UPDATE 1:57 p.m.  The letters to the Court regarding the new law are now linked in this post. The Supreme Court’s ruling Tuesday, blocking potentially thousands of federal lawsuits by whistle-blowers seeking to recover U.S View original here: Analysis: Whistle-blower defeat short-lived?

A federal judge in Washington, applying the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision creating a constitutional right to have a gun, ruled on Friday that three new gun control restrictions in the Nation’s capital city survive a Second Amendment challenge.  In the ruling by U.S. Read the rest here: New D.C. gun laws upheld

The Court released a single, unanimous, decision this morning in Maryland v. Shatzer (08-680), reversing and remanding the lower court. The majority opinion, written by Justice Scalia, is available here.  Justice Thomas wrote a separate opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment, while Justice Stevens wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment Read the ...