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5 Jan 2008, 10:34 am
  Here's one snippet from the New York Times piece by Linda Greenhouse:The new case, from Louisiana, is likely to be argued in April, meaning that during the course of its current term, the Supreme Court will be examining both the most common method of execution and a categorical question about which crimes are appropriate for the death penalty. [read post]
5 Jan 2008, 8:30 am
" And The Times-Picayune of New Orleans reports that "Death penalty in child rape tested; Supreme Court to hear Jeff Parish case. [read post]
5 Jan 2008, 4:37 am
"The child rape case is the second capital punishment case from Louisiana this term at the Supreme Court. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 9:14 pm
The Supreme Court this afternoon announced that it will examine the constitutionality of a Louisiana law that allows the death penalty in non-homicidal child rape. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 3:05 pm
Via Scotusblog, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in six cases today. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 1:10 pm
View the article here | ABC News Article01/04/2008The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether a state can execute someone convicted of raping a child, one of the few remaining crimes that does not require the death of the victim to result in capital punishment.Patrick Kennedy, 43, was sentenced to death for the rape of his 8-year-old stepdaughter in Louisiana. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 11:58 am
  Attorneys for Patrick Kennedy have notified the Supreme Court that, after the petition for review was filed, a second man had been sentenced to death in Louisiana for rape of a child. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 10:32 am
Supreme Court advocate and SCOTUS Blog founder Tom Goldstein believes the Court is likely to grant cert in the case, as noted here. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 8:05 am
But the trend is unmistakable.The Supreme Court is part of this slow-motion shutdown of the death-penalty machine. [read post]
4 Jan 2008, 7:24 am
Louisiana (07-343) [docket; cert. petition], in which the Supreme Court will consider whether a death sentence constitutes cruel and unusual punishment when imposed for a crime in which the victim was not killed. [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 4:12 pm
Now, after the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld his death sentence in a lengthy opinion, he has made a plea to the U.S. [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 12:43 pm
LawMemo, has long been a superior site for labor and employment law resources, but now it becomes a supreme site with the addition of Supreme Court Times. [read post]
1 Jan 2008, 4:08 am
2008 marks the anniversary of several important Supreme Court decisions.100th anniversary:Adair v. [read post]
31 Dec 2007, 10:51 am
The ruling was overturned this year by the state's Supreme Court. [read post]
26 Dec 2007, 9:25 am
TYC surely must be the most scrutinized agency in the state, but so far that hasn't meant that's it's been run any more ably.The next top-ten story was the Court of Criminal Appeals thumbing its nose at the Supreme Court and President Bush. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 2:39 pm
The Bush Administration, expressing fear that a lower court ruling on the constitutional rights of members of Congress will hamper probes of corruption and criminal conduct by lawmakers, has asked the Supreme Court to limit the scope of the Constitution’s “Speech of Debate Clause. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 2:28 am
  The insurer has already stated that it intends to appeal the Sher decision, and the Louisiana Supreme Court could reverse the decisions of the lower state courts on this issue. [read post]