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The US Supreme Court ruled 5-3 Wednesday in Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper that the phrase "actual damages" as found in the Privacy Act of 1974 is sufficiently ambiguous...

JURIST Guest Columnist Robert McNamara, an attorney for the Institute for Justice, says that courts utilizing rational basis analysis should look at what the government actually offers in its defense instead of creating hypothetical scenarios that might justify a particular...

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday in Missouri v. Frye that the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel applies during "all 'critical' stages of the criminal proceedings," including considerations of...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in the cases of Miller v. Alabama and Jackson v. Hobbs on whether the imposition of a life-without-parole sentence on a 14-year-old child...

The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Thursday in Douglas v. Independent Living Center of Southern California that the parties to the suit could return to the US Court of Appeals for the...

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Tuesday in Howes v. Fields that a US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit categorical rule that all private questioning of prisoners about outside events is...

JURIST Guest Columnist Corrie Thearle, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2012, is a Senior Editor for the Pittsburgh Journal of Environmental and Public Health Law. She discusses the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Jones and...

JURIST Guest Columnist Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, says that in the recent Golan v. Holder decision, the Supreme Court may have opened the door to reconsidering the unconstitutional practice of augmenting congressional...

JURIST Guest Columnist Joshua Hausman, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2012, is a Managing Editor for the University of Pittsburgh Law Review and is a Teaching Fellow in the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. He discusses the Supreme...

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in United States v. Jones that the government's attachment of a global positioning system (GPS) device to a vehicle, and its use of that...