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10 Apr 2019, 8:50 am by Leah Litman
In dissent, they (and Justice Anthony Kennedy) opted to reject the categorical approach and focus only on whether the real-world conduct of the offense posed a substantial risk of force. [read post]
8 Apr 2019, 7:12 am by Megan Carpenter
Justice Anthony Kennedy explained in his concurrence that “the central purpose of trademark registration is to facilitate source identification… Whether a mark is disparaging bears no plausible relation to that goal. [read post]
3 Apr 2019, 10:08 am by Adam Feldman
To some, including legal scholar and CNN analyst Steve Vladeck, this ruling ushered in a new conservative court without the moderating anchor of Justice Anthony Kennedy. [read post]
3 Apr 2019, 8:05 am by Tom Smith
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 30-year tenure on the Supreme Court officially ended on July 31, 2018. [read post]
3 Apr 2019, 3:40 am by Edith Roberts
At The Atlantic, Garrett Epps writes that although “[s]ince the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy last summer, [Chief Justice John] Roberts has become the Court’s ‘median justice,’ the member whose vote will usually determine the outcome of a close case,” “Roberts … is not by temperament a ‘swing’ justice[:] His hesitations about moving the Court (and the country) to the right, it appears, are largely a question of pace. [read post]
2 Apr 2019, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
He trained his delegitimization of opponents even more on the Court’s moderate Republicans—Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O’Connor—than on the Court’s liberals. [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 2:15 pm by Amy Howe
Bucklew went to the Supreme Court, which put his execution on hold in March of 2018, when Justice Anthony Kennedy was still on the court. [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 3:38 am by David Markus
  I guess we should not be surprised by the crass comment.From Axios:As he was deliberating last year over replacing Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, President Trump told confidants he had big plans for Judge Amy Coney Barrett. [read post]
31 Mar 2019, 9:24 am by Neil Siegel
And unlike the position adopted by Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito, which was so broad that it would render it impossible to distinguish coercion from the offer of a lifetime, the Chief Justice's position had the critical legal virtue of being professionally responsible.What does it say about the times in which we are living that the only Justice who voted against ideological and partisan interest on most of the constitutional… [read post]
29 Mar 2019, 12:55 pm by Ilya Somin
That problem might get worse before it gets better, as newly appointed Justice Brett Kavanaugh has a worse record in this area than his predecessor (and key swing voter) Anthony Kennedy. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 12:45 pm by Amy Howe
Four of the court’s more liberal justices argued that courts should police partisan-gerrymandering claims, while Justice Anthony Kennedy – who has since retired – staked out a middle ground: He argued that the Supreme Court should not review the Pennsylvania case, but he left open the possibility that courts could review partisan-gerrymandering claims in the future if a manageable standard could be established. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 11:06 am by Joel Goldstein
Although Alito’s Townsend dissent — for himself, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy — had concluded that the Jones Act and FELA precluded punitive damages, the Townsend majority had regarded that issue as not determinative and had left it undecided in a footnote. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 3:27 am by Edith Roberts
Wilkie, in which the justices will reconsider precedents that require courts to defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of its own regulations, “will serve as an early indication of how the newly constituted Supreme Court, which shifted to the right after Justice Anthony Kennedy retired last year, will approach the administrative state. [read post]
25 Mar 2019, 2:23 pm by Mark Walsh
The Public Information Office reports that all nine justices, along with retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, attended the session, which included NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and other league officials. [read post]
25 Mar 2019, 6:06 am by Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Last year, proponents of limiting partisan politics in the creation of electoral districts needed to win over Justice Anthony Kennedy. [read post]
25 Mar 2019, 3:55 am by Edith Roberts
Briefly: At NPR, Nina Totenberg discusses Joan Biskupic’s new book on Chief Justice John Roberts, noting that “[t]he retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy last June, and the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to replace him, means that, as Biskupic puts it, Roberts ‘has the court he always wanted. [read post]
23 Mar 2019, 2:30 pm by David Lat
* In the wake of Justice Anthony M. [read post]
20 Mar 2019, 10:19 am by Adam Feldman
At the end of the term, when Justice Anthony Kennedy left the court, most court-watchers were betting that the court’s ideological center was shifting to the right, leaving Roberts as the conservative median justice. [read post]