Supreme Court
Supreme Court Takes on Drug-Sniffing Dogs
A cop with an accommodating canine can search whatever he wants.
SCOTUS Considers Whether Drug Dogs on the Doorstep Are Trespassers
Is probable cause required to bring them onto private property?
Citizens Experience Failed Drug Dog Searches First-Hand
Those mutts really like the smell of snacks
SCOTUS Considers When Dogs Can Authorize Searches
Tomorrow the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear two Florida cases that cast doubt on the routine use of drug-sniffing dogs to generate probable cause for searches.
How the Supreme Court Stacked the Deck Against Economic Liberty
A federal price-fixing case highlights the judiciary's troubling deference to government regulation.
DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Hear DOMA Challenge
Wants to use a recent Appeals Court ruling
How the Presidential Election Will Impact the Supreme Court
The winner in November may name one or more new justices. Shouldn't the voters get to hear more about it?
Nonprofit That Pushed to Extend Citizens United Could Be in Trouble With IRS
May have misled officials over tax-exempt status
Supreme Court Stays Houston Cop Killer's Execution
Agreed to review the case two and a half hours before the scheduled execution
Divided Court Tackles College Affirmative Action
A lot of questions asked about how preferences actually work in practice
Ohio Appeals to Supreme Court over Early Voting
Decision prohibited state from reducing number of days
Supreme Court To Decide High-Profile Affirmative Action Case
Discriminatory treatment may be slapped down
Supreme Court Takes Up Monsanto Patent Case
Can company stop farmers from replanting their soybeans?
Scalia Shows Psychic Skills as a "Textualist" Judge
Says he knows what founding fathers meant, so that's how he rules
Supreme Court to Decide Whether DUI Blood Draws Require Warrants
Chipping away at the fourth amendment
Used Products Face Threat From Supreme Court Case
The Supreme Court will consider an appeals court ruling that you need permission from the copyright holder to resell products you own made abroad
Supreme Court Won't Take Donation Disclosure Appeal
Attempt to keep from having to release names of donors to PAC
Silence from SCOTUS on Gay Marriage Today
Court doesn't indicate whether it will review Proposition 8 ruling as yet
Supreme Court Won't Hear Challenge of Wash. Top Two Primary System
The Democratic and Libertarian parties argued allowing anyone to run under the banner of any party, with or without the party's consent, was a violation of their rights
Supreme Court Set to Decide: Is it a House or a Boat?
Not quite a house boat, whether a structure on the sea indefinitely moored to and receiving power from the shore qualifies as a vessel is set to have profound implications for maritime law
Supreme Court Declines TSA Body Scanner Case
The DC appeals court previously dismissed the lawsuit
Supreme Court to Take on Forced Blood Tests For Suspected DUIs
Will determine if warrants are required first
The Authoritarian Jurisprudence of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Three generations of quoting him are enough.
