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25 May 2018, 6:41 am by John Elwood
To make things more confusing, Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion reversing course, while Justice O’Connor (actually, Chief Justice O’Connor) wrote the dissent – just not the ones you think. [read post]
22 Mar 2018, 8:11 am by John Elwood
There, the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia district attorney challenged the grant of habeas relief to a woman convicted of murdering her disabled stepson. [read post]
30 Jan 2018, 9:32 am by Eric Goldman
May 30, 2017), the majority opinion omitted the emoji but the dissent included it. [read post]
26 Jul 2017, 8:30 am
This post examines a recent opinion a U.S. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 12:45 pm by Sasha Volokh
(You can find a very brief concurring opinion here, and a dissenting opinion here.) [read post]
15 Mar 2017, 4:28 pm by Josh Blackman
Were the constitutional doubts of the 1952 statute not strong enough, the implementing regulations that define “vocation” are even less neutral: Religious vocation means a formal lifetime commitment, through vows, investitures, ceremonies, or similar indicia, to a religious way of life. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 6:49 am
This post examines a recent opinion from the Supreme Court of Colorado: Marsh v. [read post]
24 Oct 2016, 6:31 am by Joy Waltemath
Justice Hughes concurred in the result only, while Justice Wright filed a separate dissenting opinion (Kentucky Restaurant Association v. [read post]
13 Jun 2016, 11:03 am by Lyle Denniston
  American Samoa has not been granted commonwealth status, like Puerto Rico’s, but that would not necessarily mean it could never qualify for statehood. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 10:45 am by John Elwood
Franklin California Tax-Free Trust, 15-255, both one-time relists asking whether Chapter 9 of the Bankruptcy Code “preempts a Puerto Rico statute creating a mechanism for the Commonwealth’s public utilities to restructure their debts”; CRST Van Expedited, Inc. v. [read post]
3 Dec 2015, 12:25 pm by John Elwood
” Slip op. 3 (Scalia, J., dissenting) (quotation partly made up). [read post]
11 May 2015, 3:30 pm by Kent Scheidegger
  Surprisingly, that question remains undecided.Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion in Mitchell v. [read post]