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6 Jun 2012, 5:11 am by Steven Ballard
On the other hand, he said, the Prop 8 opinion is narrow in that it's limited to a state that granted a right and then rescinded it whereas the DOMA case, Gill v. [read post]
5 Jun 2012, 9:58 am by Lyle Denniston
  Their opinion said that the majority has now “declared that animus must have been the only conceivable motivation for a sovereign state to have remained committed to a definition of marriage that has existed for millenia….Even worse, we have overruled the will of seven million California Proposition 8 voters based on a reading of Romer [v. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 2:09 pm by Lyle Denniston
   The backers of the ballot measure had sought review before an 11-judge court, but that is being resisted by the two gay couples who won the case in both a District Court and in the Circuit panel. [read post]
18 May 2012, 10:30 am by jleaming@acslaw.org
If the statute has worked to preserve a degree of political and social autonomy is the State required to throw away its protections because shadowy backers of WTP [Western Tradition Partnership] seek to promote their interests? [read post]
8 May 2012, 10:27 am
Anyone who has taught Constitutional Law — like me or the President of the United States — is familiar with the way Chief Justice John Marshall used it in Cohens v. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 2:20 pm by Lyle Denniston
Evans, barring states from singling out homosexuals for discriminatory treatment in state laws. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 6:44 am by KC Johnson
Cline attorney Patrick Mincey even cited Marbury v. [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 4:30 am by David Doniger
EPA took these actions in response to the Supreme Court’s landmark 2007 decision in Massachusetts v. [read post]
8 Feb 2012, 9:02 am by Sheldon Toplitt
District Court for the District of Delaware, Delaware Coalition for Open Government, Inc. v. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 10:06 am by Lyle Denniston
  Kennedy was also the author of a broader gay rights ruling in 2003, Lawrence v. [read post]