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24 Oct 2014, 9:11 am by John Elwood
In the Grass is Greener Department, Kalamazoo County Road Commission v. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 7:57 am by John Elwood
Kalamazoo County Road Commission v. [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 6:22 pm by Lyle Denniston
Texas put the new law into use in three state elections, doing so initially soon after the Supreme Court in its 2013 decision in Shelby County v. [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 5:45 am by Guest Blogger
The unsupported conclusion that racism is “over”—a theme central to reasoning in the Court’s recent decisions in Fisher, Shelby County, and Schuette—is one of the most important issues of our time, and is intertwined with the question of whether animus is a doctrine of universal application, or a contrivance limited in effect to those groups for which members of the Court feel empathy. [read post]
12 Oct 2014, 6:41 am by hlpronline
If such an order were issued, Texas would become the first state to be subject to preclearance in the post-Shelby County v. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 8:46 am by John Elwood
The rollout was every bit as smooth as we’ve come to expect for a new government website, although it took, um, over five days to update the dockets of cases to reflect that they’d been granted, and it took even experienced Court-watchers precious minutes to find “[w]here the [expletive] … orders list” was on the newly redesigned website. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 5:36 am by Amy Howe
In a post at ACSblog, Kareem Crayton looks at the use of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits voting practices that discriminate based on race, in the wake of the Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. [read post]
2 Oct 2014, 9:01 pm by John Dean
Federal Election Commission (ruling that corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money in elections), and Shelby County v. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 6:06 am by Amy Howe
ProPublica has an overview of the state of play in voting rights around the country in the wake of the Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 10:20 am by Stephen Wermiel
Four years later, the Chief Justice again emphasized the need to base the operation of the Voting Rights Act on current data in Shelby County v. [read post]
5 Sep 2014, 11:29 am
I’m delighted to report that Michael Rosman and Michelle Scott of the Center for Individual Rights, Lisa Steele of AWARE (Arming Women Against Rape & Endangerment), and I have filed an amicus brief on behalf of AWARE in Commonwealth v. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 11:39 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Thanks in part to the Parnell administration’s efforts, last year the Supreme Court struck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act in the Shelby County case. [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 8:11 am by Walter Olson
” If recent Roberts Court precedents like Shelby County and Citizens United are any guide, Harris is a warning shot that the Abood regime is not long for this world and that the next case will be the one to vindicate all public workers’ First Amendment rights. [read post]
17 Jun 2014, 4:03 pm by Rob McKinney
In reviewing three Shelby County convictions for vehicular homicide , the paper found that in those three cases  the defendant received probation for the offense. [read post]
6 Jun 2014, 11:01 am by Walter Olson
I’ve written earlier on the problems with private probation, on a Shelby County, Alabama judge’s 2012 finding that the town of Harpersville was engaged in a “judicially sanctioned extortion racket,” and more broadly on law enforcement for profit and its forfeiture branch. [read post]