Amy Howe

Sep 12 2024

Looking ahead to the long conference – Part 2

In just over two weeks, the Supreme Court will meet for the so-called “long conference” – the first regularly scheduled conference since early July at which it will consider new petitions for review. The justices will have hundreds of petitions before them, but last year they agreed to add only 12 cases to their docket… Read More

Aug 28 2024

Supreme Court temporarily bars latest Biden student debt relief plan

The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily barred the Biden administration from implementing one of its latest efforts to provide debt relief to Americans with student loans. In a brief unsigned order, the justices declined to allow the Department of Education to put into effect a July 2023 rule, known as the SAVE Plan, intended to… Read More

Aug 14 2024

Looking ahead to the long conference – Part 1

On September 30, the justices will meet for the so-called “long conference” – the first regularly scheduled conference since early July at which they will consider new petitions for review. The court will have hundreds of petitions in front of it, but last year it agreed to add only 12 cases to its docket for… Read More

Jul 22 2024

Federal government asks court to allow enforcement of Title IX rule

The Biden administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to temporarily put on hold a portion of two orders issued by federal trial courts in Louisiana and Kentucky that prohibit the Department of Education from enforcing any part of an April 2024 rule implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars sex… Read More

Jul 16 2024

Court blocks Texas execution

The Supreme Court blocked the execution of Ruben Gutierrez, who was sentenced to die after 7 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday for the 1998 stabbing death of 85-year-old Escolastica Harrison in Brownsville, Tex. In a brief unsigned order released to reporters just after 6:30 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday night, the justices put Gutierrez’s execution on… Read More

Jun 27 2024

And then there were seven — the remaining cases

When the justices return to the bench on Friday morning, they will have seven decisions left to release before their summer recess. (This assumes that the court issues two opinions in the challenges to Texas and Florida laws that would regulate large social-media companies.) The justices are not expected to issue all seven opinions on… Read More

Jun 27 2024

Reading the tea leaves — part 2

As we enter the homestretch of the Supreme Court’s term, the justices have just seven (in all likelihood) opinions to release. With the announcement of the court’s opinions in SEC v. Jarkesy and Harrington v. Purdue Pharma on Thursday, the justices have now issued all of their opinions from 2023. Only two cases – which… Read More

Jun 25 2024

The remaining cases — a baker’s dozen?

With just a few days remaining in June, the Supreme Court still has roughly 13 opinions (assuming that it issues separate decisions in the challenges to social-media laws in Florida and Texas) to release. The justices are scheduled to take the bench on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week to announce opinions, which should… Read More

Jun 25 2024

Reading the tea leaves

The Supreme Court returns to the bench on Wednesday to issue opinions in argued cases. With roughly 13 opinions left to release, it’s finally possible to start reading some tea leaves – that is, to make some predictions about which justices might be the authors of the remaining decisions. In the final week of June,… Read More

Jun 19 2024

The remaining cases (and a few tea leaves), in brief

The Supreme Court returns to the bench on Thursday to release more opinions in argued cases. With 11 days remaining in June, the justices have just over 20 decisions (depending on whether they issue one or two opinions to address some questions) remaining. Here are summaries of the as-yet-undecided cases, along with a few tea… Read More

Amy L Howe
Until September 2016, Amy served as the editor and reporter for SCOTUSblog, a blog devoted to coverage of the Supreme Court of the United States; she continues to serve as an independent contractor and reporter for SCOTUSblog. Before turning to full-time blogging, she served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there. From 2004 until 2011, she co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School; from 2005 until 2013, she co-taught a similar class at Harvard Law School. She has also served as an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law and Vanderbilt Law School. Amy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a master’s degree in Arab Studies and a law degree from Georgetown University.
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