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New post: Petitions of the week: Two cases on the state-secrets privilege scotusblog.com/2021/01/petit…

Two cases on the state-secrets privilege

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the federal government’s state-secrets privilege to protect classified information from disclosure.

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New post: Event announcement: Is there a path forward for court reform? scotusblog.com/2021/01/event…

Is there a path forward for court reform?

On Monday, Jan. 25, at 1 p.m. EST, the Brookings Institution will host a discussion about the future of Supreme Court reform proposals, now that Democrats have taken narrow control of the Senate and…

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New post: Friday round-up scotusblog.com/2021/01/frida…

Friday round-up

Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Biden pivots away from old court battles, helps ignite new ones (Lawrence Hurley, Reuters) Supreme Court Case Could…

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New post: Relist Watch scotusblog.com/2021/01/relis…

Last batch of possible grants before February recess

John Elwood reviews Tuesday’s relists Not much is happening in D.C. right now, so what can the Supreme Court do to give us a break from the tedium of endless Zoom meetings? How about keeping all of l…

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New post: Now available on Oyez: This month’s oral argument audio aligned with the transcripts scotusblog.com/2021/01/now-a…

Now available on Oyez: This month’s oral argument audio aligned with the transcripts

Oyez has posted the aligned audio and transcripts from the November 2020 oral arguments at the Supreme Court. The court heard argument this month in: Pham v. Guzman Chavez Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski AM…

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New post: Thursday round-up scotusblog.com/2021/01/thurs…

Thursday round-up

Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: 3 oldest Supreme Court justices skip inauguration due to pandemic (Ben Leonard, Politico) An incomplete Supreme Cou…

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New post: Argument analysis: Justices divided in procedural battle between Baltimore, oil companies in climate fight scotusblog.com/2021/01/argum…

Justices divided in procedural battle between Baltimore, oil companies in climate fight

Kannon Shanmugam, for oil companies, and Victor Sher, for Baltimore (Art Lien) In a speech at Harvard Law School in 2015, Justice Elena Kagan told the audience that “we’re all textualists now” – that…

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New post: Opinion analysis: A narrow win for creditors scotusblog.com/2021/01/opini…

A narrow win for creditors

On Thursday, the Supreme Court’s opinion in City of Chicago v. Fulton clarified that creditors do not violate the Bankruptcy Code’s automatic stay if they passively retain a debtor’s property after t…

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New post: Wednesday round-up scotusblog.com/2021/01/wedne…

Wednesday round-up

Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: Roberts to swear in yet another president who opposed him (Mark Sherman, Associated Press) Trump transformed the Su…

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New post: Argument analysis: Justices sympathetic to FCC in media ownership dispute scotusblog.com/2021/01/argum…

Justices sympathetic to FCC in media ownership dispute

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday morning in a dispute arising from the Federal Communications Commission’s attempts to deregulate local media ownership.

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New post: Justices do not act on high-profile cases scotusblog.com/2021/01/justi…

Justices do not act on high-profile cases

The Supreme Court issued orders on Tuesday morning from the justices’ private conference last Friday, Jan. 15.

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New post: Tuesday round-up scotusblog.com/2021/01/tuesd…

Tuesday round-up

The Supreme Court convenes at 10 a.m. for its final argument day of January.

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New post: Case preview: Clash over media ownership rules arrives at the court scotusblog.com/2021/01/case-…

Case preview: Clash over media ownership rules arrives at the court

On Tuesday the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the latest chapter of a long-running battle between the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ove…

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New post: Who will be the next solicitor general? scotusblog.com/2021/01/who-w…

Who will be the next solicitor general?

President-elect Joe Biden has not yet announced a nominee for solicitor general, the top lawyer who represents the government before the Supreme Court. SCOTUStalk host Amy Howe and SCOTUSblog’s media…

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New post: Case preview: Justices to consider procedural issue in major climate-change lawsuit scotusblog.com/2021/01/case-…

Case preview: Justices to consider procedural issue in major climate-change lawsuit

The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by the city of Baltimore against companies that produce fossil fuels, seeking to hold them responsible for their role in glob…

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New post: This week at the court scotusblog.com/2021/01/this-…

This week at the court

On Monday, the court was closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On Tuesday, the court released orders from the Jan. 15 conference, in which the justices did not grant any new cases for oral argument.

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New post: Over sharp dissents, court intervenes to allow federal government to execute 13th person in six months scotusblog.com/2021/01/over-…

Over sharp dissents, court intervenes to allow federal government to execute 13th person in six...

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the federal government to execute Dustin Higgs, reversing lower-court orders that had put the execution on hold and drawing strongly worded dissents from two justi…

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New post: Petitions of the week: Three Second Amendment petitions and a Wiretap Act claim against Facebook scotusblog.com/2021/01/petit…

Petitions of the week: Three Second Amendment petitions and a Wiretap Act claim against Facebook

This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether Facebook plug-ins violate the Wiretap Act and whether the Second Amendment protects an indivi…

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New post: Friday round-up scotusblog.com/2021/01/frida…

Friday round-up

The justices will meet privately on Friday morning to consider whether to grant cert petitions on issues that include abortion, capital punishment and the degree of power that state legislatures have…

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New post: Court allows execution of Corey Johnson to proceed after COVID-19 diagnosis scotusblog.com/2021/01/court…

Court allows execution of Corey Johnson to proceed after COVID-19 diagnosis

The justices on Thursday night denied two last-minute appeals by Corey Johnson, who sought to postpone his execution so that he could recover from COVID-19, which he contracted in prison after spendi…

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