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9 Mar 2017, 4:40 am by Edith Roberts
” Briefly: At Reason’s Hit and Run blog, Elizabeth Nolan Brown discusses Justice Clarence Thomas’ dissent from denial of cert on Monday in an appeal of an appeals court ruling ordering a convicted sex-trafficker from Jamaica to pay restitution to an Australian woman for crimes that occurred in Australia, noting that Thomas asserted that “America is ‘not the world’s lawgiver’ and can’t punish non-citizens for activity committed abroad. [read post]
6 Mar 2017, 9:46 am by Eugene Volokh
Texas, Justice Clarence Thomas sharply criticizes civil forfeiture laws. [read post]
24 Feb 2017, 11:51 am by Mark Walsh
Gorsuch called the petition “frivolous” and a “clear deny on the merits. [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 9:06 am by Schachtman
The First amendment (originally the third until the first two were dropped) sets forth a basic “right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 2:37 pm by Amy Howe
In November of last year, the justices stayed the execution of Thomas Arthur, who was sentenced to death for his role in a murder-for-hire scheme in the early 1980s, to give the court time to consider Arthur’s petition for review of the merits of his challenge. [read post]
17 Feb 2017, 4:32 am by Edith Roberts
ArkansasMatters reports that a cert petition has been filed in an Arkansas case that asks “whether a State violates the Fourteenth Amendment by denying married same-sex couples the same right afforded to married opposite-sex couples under state law to have the name of the birth mother’s spouse entered as the second parent on their child’s birth certificate. [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 3:39 pm by Josh Blackman
In Part I of this series, I discussed three critical errors in the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Washington v. [read post]
27 Jan 2017, 12:52 pm by John Elwood
Thomas Douglas Arthur, at least, has one other petition still pending, because the court appears to have relisted all the other cases one more time. [read post]
26 Jan 2017, 4:33 am by Edith Roberts
At Bloomberg, Greg Stohr reports that “the president is a week away from nominating someone who would become a core member of the court’s conservative wing,” and that each of “four appellate judges in contention for the slot, including frontrunners Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, would fit neatly into the ideological mold of the man they would succeed, the late Justice Antonin Scalia. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 8:23 pm by Kate Howard
The petition of the day is: Walker v. [read post]
23 Jan 2017, 1:19 pm by Amy Howe
Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit and Judge Thomas Hardiman of the U.S. [read post]
23 Jan 2017, 4:12 am by Edith Roberts
” Briefly: In the sixth of a series, Amy Howe looks at Utah Supreme Court Justice Thomas Lee, who is on President Donald Trump’s list of potential U.S. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 1:31 pm
R.D. directed multiple Tweets at A.C., a student from Thomas Jefferson High School. [read post]
10 Jan 2017, 6:20 am by Ilya Somin
Over 1200 of my fellow law professors recently signed a petition urging the Senate to reject President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Jeff Sessions to become attorney general. [read post]