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21 Feb 2019, 9:30 pm
Because of the Amendment’s ban on excessive fines, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ruled that Indiana’s use of a practice called civil forfeiture to confiscate property worth several times the maximum fine for an offense was an unconstitutionally severe punishment. [read post]
27 Feb 2019, 12:04 pm
Malone received immediate pushback from Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Samuel Alito, who pointed out that all 10 months of Mont’s pretrial detention were ultimately credited to his new state sentence. [read post]
28 Mar 2017, 2:20 pm
Coming away from the argument, Lee seemed to have the solid support of both Kagan and Sotomayor, and likely the support of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer as well. [read post]
4 Mar 2020, 9:03 am
All nine justices agreed on this point, as even the partial dissent by Justice Stephen Breyer (joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan) concurred with Alito’s express-preemption ruling. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 7:42 am
Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a separate dissent, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to raise broader concerns about the constitutionality of the death penalty. [read post]
21 Mar 2016, 5:52 pm
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for example, asked attorney Gregory Katsas – representing RJR – whether RICO would apply to a foreign terrorist organization that operated abroad but repeatedly engaged in very violent acts against U.S. citizens. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 10:53 am
But several Justices – including Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel A. [read post]
9 Nov 2009, 9:14 am
" Makar's toughest questioner was Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who sharply criticized Florida's lack of any "proportionality" review under its own state laws, and drew unfavorable comparisons between state restrictions on juveniles on drinking, driving and marrying even while allowing sentencing as if they were adults. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 10:18 am
From questions and comments, it appeared that the Justices would line up — at least preliminarily — this way: the Chief Justice and Justices Alito and Antonin Scalia were sympathetic to the Christian Legal Society’s challenge, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sympathetic to the Law School’s non-discrimination goal and doubtful about the Society’s evidence of bias, Justice Sonia Sotomayor seemed more persuaded by the Law School’s argument than the… [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 10:00 am
In the dissent, the three women justices — Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — were joined by Justice Stephen Breyer in pointing out all the legal flaws and holes in Scalia’s opinion. [read post]
19 Nov 2013, 9:01 pm
” Nonetheless, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s opinion for the near-unanimous Court offered a surprisingly positive view of VMI’s “adversative” method of instruction, in which instructors play the role of drill sergeants who break down “cadets” in order to build character. [read post]
19 Feb 2024, 6:49 am
The Period Products Initiative, led by the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Society and the Office of Student Affairs, provides free period products in the women’s bathrooms throughout the building. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 11:36 am
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined in part. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 3:47 am
” Nina Totenberg reports at NPR that “[t]he vote was 7-2, but [Justice Samuel] Alito’s opinion was joined only by the court’s four other conservatives — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh[; t]wo of the court’s liberal justices — Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg –agreed that Thuraissigiam’s removal order was proper but said that the opinion’s reasoning and language swept… [read post]
24 May 2018, 9:30 pm
In dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg categorized the decision as “egregiously wrong,” stating that “the inevitable result of today’s decision will be the underenforcement of federal and state statutes designed to advance the well-being of vulnerable workers. [read post]
7 Dec 2015, 12:33 pm
Clement for petitioner It soon became clear that other of the more liberal Court members were sympathetic with retaining the 1979 precedent: Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, in particular. [read post]
17 May 2016, 9:06 am
’” Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s concurrence with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg optimistically echoes the compromise possibility, noting: Today’s opinion does only what it says it does: “afford[s] an opportunity” for the parties and Courts of Appeals to reconsider the parties’ arguments in light of petitioners’ new articulation of their religious objection and the Government’s clarification about what the existing regulations accomplish, how… [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 11:34 am
Some justices absent for today’s opinions (Art Lien) Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is on her way back from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where over the weekend she participated in a festival interview session related to the festival premiere of the documentary “RBG. [read post]
13 Apr 2018, 4:59 am
One can then proclaim that there is no reasonable alternative to the Supreme Court’s present construction of that statute, even though any participant in our habeas regime would have to agree that it resembles a twisted labyrinth of deliberately crafted legal obstacles that make it as difficult for habeas petitioners to succeed in pursuing the Writ as it would be for a Supreme Court Justice to strike out Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, and Mickey Mantle in… [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 8:06 am
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan all wondered whether the Hobbs Act should preclude challenges when the defendant in the private enforcement action would have had no reason — or, in some cases, any ability — to seek judicial review in a circuit court within 60 days of the agency’s final order. [read post]
