Supreme Court Justices in terms of any political issue. I chose youth rights. Since it was election season, he also asked us to analyze presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore on the same issue, predict how each might influence the future of the court, and argue for the best ...
The number of justices on the Court, set at nine since the mid-19th century, has changed over the years. The Court was founded in 1789 with six justices. TheJudiciary Act of 1801established a plan to reduce the number to five upon the next vacancy, but the act was repealed before the...
The Constitution established the Supreme Court in 1789, leaving justice confirmation procedure to Congress. Here's how it works—and how it has changed.
It's not the Supreme Court's job to prescribe a detailed new test, and the justices were right to leave that decision with the lower courts, said David Kappos, IBM's assistant general counsel for intellectual property law. He also argued that the patent system will not encounter new chaos ...
The justices like to say that the Supreme Court is not a court of “error correction” — that is, they don’t take a case just because the lower court got it wrong, but instead only because the case is of particular national importance or because the lower courts are divided on the ...
Let that settle in for a moment. NCLA hires a man who was engaged in an effort to overthrow the government as its Chief of Litigation and it’s lecturing the Supreme Court justices on what the framers of the Constitution had in mind. ...
Finding no constitutional protection against state intru- sion of the kind envisioned by the Louisiana statute, the Court upheld the statute. Four Justices dissented. Jus- tice Field, joined by Chief Justice Chase and Justices Swayne and Bradley, criticized the majority for reducing the Fourteenth ...
enforcement of the traffic laws and supervision of vehicle traffic may be a large part of a police officer's job. We believe that the Court of Appeals should have accepted, as did the state courts and the District Court, the findings with respect to Officer Weiss' specific motivation and th...
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has rejected the Biden administration’s request to reinstate most of its new Title IX guidance. With a 5 to 4 decision that saw Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the three liberal justices in dissent, the rule remains blocked while further litigation...
The word "vessel" includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. After a review of several cases wherein the Court treated dredges as vessels both prior to and after the 1920s passage of the Jon...