Right this moment in Supreme Court docket Historical past: February 6, 1858
02/06/1858: Judge Mahlon Pittney’s birthday. Justice Mahlon Pittney
02/06/1858: Judge Mahlon Pittney’s birthday. Justice Mahlon Pittney
The Supreme Court ruled against the descendants of Holocaust victims whose ancestors were forced to sell valuable works of art to Nazi officials for a fraction of their real value. Under normal circumstances, individuals cannot sue foreign states in a national court. According to CNN, the judges found that the plaintiffs’ claim did not meet … Read more
Yesterday the Supreme Court removed Biden v Sierra Club (formerly known as Trump v Sierra Club) from its oral hearing calendar. This move likely ends the lengthy legal battle over the legality of former President Donald Trump’s diversion of various military construction funds to build his border wall. The court took this step at the … Read more
SCOTUStalk With SCOTUStalk on February 2, 2021 at 10:56 a.m. Robert Barnes, the Washington Post’s 15-year-old Supreme Court reporter, joins Amy Howe to take stock of the court’s tenure to date and look to the future. The two recapitulate the January argumentation session – including the now famous Taylor Swift reference from Justice Elena Kagan … Read more
January 27, 1955: Birthday of Chief Justice John Roberts. Chief Justice John Roberts
01/30/1939: Judge Felix Frankfurter swears. Judge Felix Frankfurter
01/28/1916: President Wilson appoints Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court. He would be confirmed on June 1, 1916. Justice Louis Brandeis
Ask the author By Gabriel Chin on Jan 27, 2021 at 10:23 am A rally before the Nov. 12, 2020, argument over the future of DACA (Victoria Pickering, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) The following is a series of questions posed by Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin, University of California, Davis School of Law, to Professor Amanda Frost, … Read more
01/25/1819: Thomas Jefferson chartered the University of Virginia. 176 years later, the Supreme Court ruled Rosenberger against Rector and Visitors to the University of Virginia (1995). The Rehnquist Court
01/26/1832: Birthday of Justice George Shiras Jr .. Justice George Shiras Jr.