SCOTUS

It’s that time again when hotly anticipated orders are being issued by the U.S.’ top court. This session the Court is addressing everything from religious rights in the workplace (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission …

The BYU Law School website recently ran an interview with BYU Law School alum Robert Stander ('11) announcing his clerkship with Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court during October term …

Think your SCOTUS-prediction skills are top notch?  Put them to the test in Bloomberg Law/SCOTUSblog's Supreme Court Challenge.  The competition features teams of law students predicting the outcomes of six merits cases and …

Until I came to law school I never realized that the first Monday in October was any different than other Mondays--October or otherwise.  But, I quickly learned that the first Monday in October …

Utah Senator Mike Lee (a BYU Law graduate) recently released a video describing the work done by law clerks at the Supreme Court, focusing on his experience as a clerk to Justice Alito.  …

One of the things Valentine's Day makes me think of is poetry.  That probably comes from the fact that my mom used to write us poems for Valentine's Day.  The only poetry I …

Tomorrow and Friday the Brigham Young University Law Review will put on a symposium titled, The Press, the Public, and the U.S. Supreme Court.  I can't honestly say that every law review symposium …

Today I was directed to an interesting new website (thanks @GtwonLawLib) that allows you to see the frequency of words and phrases used by the U.S. Supreme Court in its opinions between 1791 …

I'm sure you haven't missed much of President Obama's Health Care Law and its journey to the Supreme Court.  Most people are watching it quite closely and, in fact, would like to literally …

The Supreme Court began its Oct. 2011 term yesterday on the first Monday in October.  I recently blogged about my favorite Supreme Court resource, SCOTUSblog, but thought the start of the new term …

Recently the popular and extremely useful Supreme Court blog, SCOTUSblog, received some new enhancements as well as a new look.  More details are available in this post from SCOTUSblog publisher and creator Tom …

If you weren't one already, law school has a way of turning students into Supreme Court watchers.  Now that the most recent term is over, SCOTUSblog (which all law students should become familiar with) …

The ABA Journal had an interesting article last month discussing the Supreme Court's practice of stealth overruling.  This is a practice in which the justices avoid expressly overruling precedent, but in effect do overrule it by …