Why Has the D.C. Circuit Made It More Difficult to Find Opinions? A recent website "upgrade" is not an improvement. Reason · Oct 30, 2024
Election-related cases land at Supreme Court, maybe a bit late - Roll Call The Supreme Court faces a handful of election-related cases, but experts say the justices are unlikely to upset the status quo. Roll Call · Oct 29, 2024
Southwest Airlines Faces Lawsuit From Pilot Union After Federal Court Ruling In the Monday ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned a previous decision by a lower court that had dismissed Southwest Airlines Pilots Association's case. International Business Times · Oct 29, 2024
Supreme Court to Tackle Who Can Sue Agencies Where and for What With today's cert grants, the Court now has four cases that address the issue of where suits can be filed against federal agencies and who can file them. Reason · Oct 21, 2024
Supreme Court to decide cases on nuclear fuel storage, gun lawsuit - Roll Call The Supreme Court announced on Friday it will decide disputes about the scope of Nuclear Regulatory Commission power and more. Roll Call · Oct 4, 2024
A Prosecutor Allegedly Told a Witness To Destroy Evidence. He Can't Be Sued for It. Absolute immunity protects prosecutors even when they commit serious misconduct on the job. Reason · Sep 29, 2024
Judges wrestle with latest Supreme Court gun rights opinion - Roll Call The Supreme Court’s latest opinion on gun rights has not eliminated the disagreement among judges in those challenges, legal experts say. Roll Call · Sep 18, 2024
The Goal Of The "Architects of the Supreme Court" Was Always Overruling Chevron, and not Overruling Roe McConnell: "Dismantling the administrative state and empowering people who are actually elected to make decisions has been the motivating force" for nearly every "Federalist Society-type lawyer." Reason · Jul 3, 2024
Sotomayor Is Right: The Supreme Court Should Reevaluate Absolute Immunity for Prosecutors The doctrine makes it nearly impossible for victims of prosecutorial misconduct to get recourse. Reason · Jul 2, 2024
Florida S. Ct. Reads Florida Anti-Riot Statute as Narrowly Focused on Violence In this, the court agrees with the Florida Attorney General and the Governor’s office, and disagrees with the challengers who are trying to get the statute struck down on First Amendment grounds. Reason · Jun 20, 2024
Supreme Court Upholds the Rule of Law by Rejecting the Trump Administration's Bump Stock Ban Six justices agreed that federal regulators had misconstrued the statutory definition of a machine gun. Reason · Jun 14, 2024
Hunter Biden's Gun Conviction Does Not Resolve a Constitutional Dispute That Pits Him Against His Father The president's son, who faces up to 25 years in prison for conduct that violated no one's rights, can still challenge his prosecution on Second Amendment grounds. Reason · Jun 11, 2024
FCC Amends Foreign Sponsorship ID Rules In response to a court ruling vacating some regulations, the FCC has amended and clarified rules that were designed to prevent foreign influence on U.S. elections TV Tech · Jun 10, 2024
Court Blocks Black-Owned Firm From Exclusive Grants For Black Women U.S. Court of Appeals ruling against a black-owned firm's exclusive grant program for black women entrepreneurs raises concerns about discrimination and hi... Top News · Jun 8, 2024
Reason · Jun 5, 2024 Donald Trump and Hunter Biden Face the Illogical Consequences of an Arbitrary Gun Law Their cases illustrate the injustice of taking away people’s Second Amendment rights based on nonviolent crimes
Reason · Jun 4, 2024 Did Environmental Groups Drop Challenges to SEC Climate Disclosure Rule Because They Lost the Lottery? Green groups dropped their suits after the various challenges to the SEC's climate disclosure rule were consolidated in a fairly conservative circuit.
Roll Call · Jun 3, 2024 Fierce fight with no end in sight for drug discount program - Roll Call Drug companies complain that the 340B drug discount program has expanded beyond its original intent of helping safety net providers.
Reason · Jun 2, 2024 Trump's Conviction Requires Him To Surrender His Guns. Civil Libertarians Should Be Troubled. The former president's loss of his Second Amendment rights highlights an arbitrary restriction that applies to many people with no history of violence.
Reason · May 27, 2024 In Hawaii, Permission To Use Medical Marijuana Precludes Permission To Own a Gun The state's gun permit policy underlines the absurdity of assuming that cannabis consumers are too dangerous to be trusted with firearms.
Reason · May 12, 2024 Here Is Why a Federal Judge Rejected Hunter Biden's Second Amendment Challenge to His Gun Charges Likening drug users to people who are "mentally ill and dangerous," the ruling says barring them from owning firearms is not unconstitutional on its face.
Reason · May 1, 2024 Supreme Court Won't Stop Texas Porn Law From Taking Effect "We will continue to fight for the right to access the internet without intrusive government oversight," says the group challenging the law.
Ballotpedia · Apr 22, 2024 Robe & Gavel: SCOTUS concludes their April 2024 sitting Welcome to the April 22 edition of Robe & Gavel, Ballotpedia’s newsletter about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and other judicial happenings around the U.S.
Roll Call · Apr 22, 2024 Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on abortion and Trump - Roll Call The Supreme Court will close out oral arguments for the term this week with two high-profile cases on abortion and Donald Trump.
Ballotpedia · Apr 18, 2024 Three states end judicial deference practices The Checks and Balances Letter delivers news and information from Ballotpedia’s Administrative State Project, including pivotal actions at the federal and state levels related to the separation of powers, due process, and the rule of law.
Ballotpedia · Apr 10, 2024 Hall Pass: Your Ticket to Understanding School Board Politics, Edition #105 Welcome to Hall Pass, a newsletter written to keep you plugged into the conversations driving school board politics and governance.