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This week at the Court: In Plain English
Itâ€s officially June! If you are a baseball fan, you know all about the excitement of the post-season. Because the Court concludes its oral arguments in April, May and June are the post-season for...
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This week at the Court: In Plain English
Even if you donâ€t have a calendar handy, you can tell itâ€s June. As I posted last week, June is the Courtâ€s “post-seasonâ€; as of the beginning of the week, there were still thirty-one merits...
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Thursday’s opinions in Plain English
Itâ€s been a busy week at the Court, especially in terms of cases in which the Courtâ€s job was to interpret language in a statute or regulation. In fact, although the general public usually thinks...
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This week at the Court: In Plain English
On Monday, the Court decided the last case argued this Term, Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan, proving once again that when a case is argued does not always determine when it is decided (a case...
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This week at the Court in Plain English
Wow! If you were following the LiveBlog yesterday, you didnâ€t even have time to refill your coffee cup in between the announcements of the Courtâ€s five – yep, thatâ€s right, five – opinions. If...
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Monday’s decisions in Plain English
If you read the blog regularly, you probably know that the Justices announce opinions in reverse order of seniority. Some days, like Monday, that tradition leaves us on tenterhooks (because many...
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This week at the Court in Plain English
We at the blog knew that the end of the Term was approaching quickly; even though we donâ€t always know in advance what the Courtâ€s last day will be, it pretty much always wraps things up by the end...
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The last week of the Term: In Plain English
We waited. And we waited. And we waited some more. And, as so often happens in big, controversial cases, our wait lasted a long time – over two hundred days. Finally, on Monday, the last day of...
View ArticleBook review: Equal justice under law, jailhouse-lawyer style
In the spring of 2003, the phone on Seth Waxman’s desk rang. “Will you accept a call from federal prison?” the caller asked. Waxman sighed. It might have been his fifth prisoner call that day. As...
View ArticleBook review: Allegiance — to rules or justice?
“The Court is a place of great responsibility. It is a temple of truth. We who work here must dedicate ourselves to worship and service . . . . [I]f you have come here for any other purpose, you...
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