With the election of Donald Trump to president and his promise to appoint a new justice in the mold of Justice Scalia it appears that not much will change on the Court in the near future. On the dreary morning…
Category: Supreme Court
Election Week At The Supreme Court
Posted in Arguments, Supreme Court Tagged with: Elections, Fair Housing Act, Federal Vacancies Reform Act, Jabot, Justice Ginsburg, Miami, Morales-Santana, NLRB, SCOTUS, Trump
Halloween Week At The Supreme Court
Monday was halloween so I had a little fun with the SCOTUSblog banner. It was also the day Wonder, the goldendoodle service dog, visited the Court, though only outside. I was hoping Wonder would be accompany his young charge, Ehlena Fry, into…
Posted in Arguments, Supreme Court Tagged with: Copyright Law, False Claims Act, FSIA, Halloween, Patent Law
Smartphones Patents And Racial Bias In Jury Deliberations
The Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases yesterday morning – a third argument was heard in the afternoon, but I didn’t sketch that one. The first case, Samsung Electronics v. Apple, involves the design patents of Apple’s iPhone.…
Posted in Arguments, Supreme Court Tagged with: Apple, Jury Deliberation, Patent Law, Racial Bias, Samsung
First Arguments In October
Here are sketches from three of the five cases argued in the Supreme Court during this first week of the October 2016 term (wish I hadn’t skipped Tuesday’s bank fraud argument, Shaw v. U.S., and missed Justice Breyer’s Kardashian hypothetical ).…
Posted in Arguments, Supreme Court Tagged with: Death Penalty, Double Jeopardy, Insider Trading, SCOTUS
First Monday In October . . .
. . or the all catholic bench. As the first day of Rosh Hashanah this year coincided with the first day of the Supreme Court’s new term no arguments were heard on Monday. Justices Ginsburg, Breyer and Kagan were absent, presumably…
SCOTUS Ends With A Bang, Not A Whimper
It’s been a strange Supreme Court term, like a meal that doesn’t satisfy. With only eight members on the bench after Justice Scalia’s death the odds were good that the last blockbuster opinion of the term would fall to a…
Posted in Opinions, Supreme Court Tagged with: Abortion, Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Alito, Justice Breyer, Texas, Whole Woman's Health
Monday’s Undecisions
The big news of course on Monday was the Supreme Court’s per curiam opinion in Zubik v. Burwell (and other consolidated cases) that decided nothing but encouraged the two sides to reach a compromise. The other case left hanging is…
Posted in Opinions, Supreme Court Tagged with: ACA, Contraception, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Little Sisters of the Poor, RFRA, Spokeo, Zubik
Opinion: Ocasio v. United States
An interesting case, and not just because I live in Baltimore. Majestic Auto Repair was paying up to $300 for each damaged vehicle Baltimore police would steer their way from the scene of an accident. By the time the FBI…
Posted in Opinions, Supreme Court Tagged with: Bribery, Conspiracy, Extortion, Hobbs Act, Justice Alito
Copyright Fee Awards and Patent Law Arguments
The Supreme Court heard their last argument of the term yesterday, an appeal of former Virginia governor McDonnell’s conviction for accepting gifts and favors in exchange for “official acts”. I wasn’t there to sketch it. Instead I was covering the…
Arizona Redistricting Opinion and DUI Argument
On Wednesday the Supreme Court released three opinions, two of which made news, one of which – Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission – I sketched. I would’ve sketched the opinion in Bank Markazi v Peterson, that upheld a law…
Posted in Arguments, Opinions, Supreme Court Tagged with: Arizona, DUI, Justice Breyer, Redistricting, Voting Rights Act
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