Supreme Court rules in campaign finance, sovereign immunity cases
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Monday, including a decision in Wisconsin Right to Life v. Federal Election Commission , where the Court remanded the case to the federal District...
Activists around the country marked the 33rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade with demonstrations on Sunday. In Minnesota, San Francisco, Idaho and Michigan, hundreds of anti-abortion and abortion rights demonstrators gathered in front of state capitols. Activists in...
JURIST Guest Columnist David Kairys of Temple University School of Law says that senators weighing the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court should be wary of endorsing his commitment to legal technicalities over core constitutional values......
Alito gives answers on abortion, precedent in final committee questionnaire
US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on Friday provided additional written answers to questions submitted by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding his views of a variety of legal issues and...
Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, Supreme Court of the United States, January 18, 2006 [remanding a US First Circuit Court of Appeals ruling which had struck down New Hampshire's parental notification law for teenage abortions because it...
Supreme Court rules in government immunity, juror challenge cases
The US Supreme Court handed down decisions in three cases Wednesday, including a decision in Will v. Hallock , where the Court ruled that a refusal to apply the judgment bar in the Federal...
BREAKING NEWS ~ Supreme Court orders review of New Hampshire abortion law
AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to reconsider the constitutionality of a New Hampshire abortion law. In a unanimous decision in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England [Duke...
JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Shane of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that the confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito were a distressingly hollow ritual that reflected poorly on the nominee, the Senators questioning...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Graber of the University of Maryland School of Law says that the Alito hearings have demonstrated yet again that political polarization has impoverished the judicial confirmation process... The fourth day of the Alito hearings highlighted the...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Richard Davis of Brigham Young University says that at the end of four days of Senate confirmation hearings, Judge Samuel Alito appears to have succeeded in his political task of securing enough swing votes to avoid...
