The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in a free speech case involving when schools can enforce rules of conduct on social media.
"The Supreme Court did not take a necessary opportunity to provide clarity, particularly with such a split among the appellate courts on this issue. It makes little sense for SCOTUS not to resolve the difference in federal cases — but because of this split — children in other parts of this...
Learn about the development of the juvenile justice system. Examine a series of U.S. Supreme Court cases establishing the rights and protections of...
The Supreme Court has for weeksbeen weighingnumerous cases involving qualified immunity, the legal doctrine that protects government officials from lawsuits stemming from conduct on the job unless they violate "clearly established" constitutional rights. But qualified immunity for police officers, in partic...
Analysis: Cases heard by the Supreme Court involving school vouchers and executing inmates who are mentally retardedJACKI LYDEN, ROBERT SIEGEL
What is affirmative action, and how did these cases get to the Supreme Court? Affirmative action refers to policies established by schools or employers aimed at increasing the diversity of a student body or workforce through the consideration of candidates' race. The concept originate...
One aspect of Kennedy with potentially far-reaching consequences is that it largely repudiates the three major tests the court has long applied in cases involving religion. The first,Lemon v. Kurtzman, was a 1971 dispute about aid to faith-based schools in Pennsylvania. The Supreme Court’s dec...
In this October 2022 photo, activists rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, as the justices hear oral arguments in the affirmative action cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Shuran Huang/The New York Times/Redux The Supreme Court says col...
including the most recent involving Harvard and UNC. Both of these cases were spearheaded by Edward Blum, a conservative legal activist who opposes the consideration of race and ethnicity in the U.S. and who helped bring a similar challenge to the Supreme Court in 2016 in Fisher v....
Washington —On the last day of oral arguments conducted over conference call, the Supreme Court considered a pair of cases Wednesday involving the Electoral College and whether states can require its presidential electors to cast their ballots for the candidate who wins the state's popular vote....