#Supremecourt

Bar & Bench

barandbench

Migrant workers: #SupremeCourt begins hearing petition by Harsh Mander and Anjali Bhardwaj concerning payment of wages to migrant workers amid lockdown due to #Covid_19. Matter is taken up for hearing

Jonathan Mitchell QC

jjmitchell

Today's @UKSupremeCourt judgments in ABC and XY hold lessons beyond the refusal of the appeals (for which see para 51): sibling relationships, access to records, and the centrality of the

SCOTUSblog

SCOTUSblog

#SCOTUS, by vote of 5-4, strikes down Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have right to admit patients at nearby hospitals Here is the 5-4 opinion in June

Justin Levitt

_justinlevitt_

Hey, look, another Supreme Court stay, changing the rules for an impending deadline (the Census, this time), overruling both a trial court and court of appeals, without any explanation why!"Because

southpaw

nycsouthpaw

Justice Kavanaugh quietly concedes one error (of the many that exist) in his Wisconsin election opinion after getting publicly owned by the State of Vermont. https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/vermont-kavanaugh-voting/index.html https:

Orin Kerr

OrinKerr

Reading Ramos, I am struck by the citation style: It's the first Supreme Court majority opinion I recall in which all citations are in footnotes. I find that style annoying,

Mark Joseph Stern

mjs_DC

First opinion of the day is in Jones v. Mississippi. By a 6–3 vote with Kavanaugh writing, the court rules that a sentencer need NOT make a separate factual finding

Michael Kanaan

MichaelJKanaan

Timely Thread: The #SupremeCourt is often misunderstood. Here's the deal, and it might come off as brash, but fairly hear it out. At its inception, it was created for a

Kimberly Robinson

KimberlyRobinsn

#SCOTUS orders county boards in Pennsylvania to segregate mail-in ballots received after 8 pm on Election Day. As @GregStohr noted, there are likely to be only a small number of

Daniel J. Tully

danieltully

At oral argument this morning, the government doubled down on their textual argument. Rather than consider the harsh consequences that may flow to immigrants (particularly those of color) who have

Juvenile Law Center

JuvLaw1975

In its decision in #JonesvMississippi today, SCOTUS ruled that when determining whether to sentence a child to life without parole, the court need not make a specific finding that the

Clark Neily

ConLawWarrior

Why JUDGES should support the elimination of qualified immunity: Because when YOU create a Frankenstein’s monster of injustice that undermines people’s confidence in govt and infantilizes cops, you should fix

Todd N. Tucker

toddntucker

This from Ginsburg's dissent in RNC v. DNC is all you need to know."The Court’s suggestion that the current situation is not “substantially different” from “an ordinary election” boggles the

southpaw

nycsouthpaw

Supreme Court won’t lift the 11th Circuit’s stay, meaning excons who haven’t paid their court fees wont be able to vote. Three dissenting justices say it “prevents thousands of otherwise

Tierney Sneed

Tierney_Megan

I've previously written about how the Affordable Care Act — which Trump and several red states are asking SCOTUS to fully dismantle — is linked to the coronavirus response.https://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/trump-supreme-court-obamacare-cov

Mike Sacks

MikeSacksEsq

Hey remember when Justice Breyer asked a star member of the conservative legal bar whether the federal government could mandate vaccinations during an outbreak that could sicken half the country's