Stacie Yee
A court’s ability to hear a case is known as itsjurisdiction. In the United States (US), federal SupremeCourt jurisdictionis limited. Itsoriginal jurisdictionincludes cases such as those involving disputes between states, disputes of which the US is a named party, and cases involving US citize...
It's interesting that the very same term can mean something completely different in different judicial system. In the United States, it seems like magistrates deal with more low level stuff. But in Mexico, a hearing with a magistrate is like a Supreme Court hearing in the United States. ...
The U.S. Supreme Court justices originally heard these challenges to race-conscious admissions in October intwo cases: Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. The lawsuits argued that admiss...
Anti-Trump plaintiffs have brought the insurrectionist clause argument to keep Trump off the ballot to courts in several states. The Colorado ruling does not apply to other states, though it could embolden others to take action. Colorado, which leans Democrat, is not a competitive state for Tr...
The Supreme Court was clear this week: if your entire website is not accessible, you are leaving yourself open to lawsuits. By declining to review the Ninth Circuit’s decision inRobles v. Domino’s, they upheld that “imposing liability on businesses for not having an accessible website doe...
Pell Grants go to borrowers with the greatest financial need. The move launched multiple legal battles. But the one that ultimately made it to the Supreme Court and that resulted in Friday's decision was a lawsuit filed by six states inSeptember of 2022. ...
As a non-native speaker, I really struggled with this sentence: The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent o...
It can do so in a way that minimally disrupts the CFPB's operations but finally brings it under the purview of our democratic system. Bottom Line Congress created this problem and Congress can fix it. In the meantime, the Supreme Court should restore the balance of power and uphold the...
In these cases the courts that have ordered decryption have, to my knowledge, always ordered the defendant to decrypt the data, not to hand over the key. This can be done by letting the defendant type the password (and the prosecution would implicitly be barred from capturing that passphrase...