As we approach the final opinion day scheduled in May, the court still has 33 opinions to release before the justices’ summer recess. Those 33 opinions include the opinions in high-profile cases involving the consideration of race in college admissions, the challenge to the Biden administration’s student-debt relief program, and the constitutionality of a 1978… Read More

The Supreme Court on Thursday reversed the conviction of Joseph Percoco, the manager of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s re-election campaign who was sentenced to six years in prison after he took money in exchange for helping to facilitate a real estate development. Percoco was convicted of violating a federal fraud law that makes… Read More

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a major ruling that upheld a controversial California animal-welfare law. In a deeply splintered vote that did not break down on traditional ideological lines, the justices rejected an argument by pork producers that the law, known as Proposition 12, violates the Constitution by regulating the pork industry outside California…. Read More

The Supreme Court on Friday night granted a request from the Biden administration and a drug manufacturer to put on hold a ruling by a federal judge in Texas that suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of mifepristone, part of a two-drug protocol used to end pregnancies in their early stages. The battle over… Read More

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a 12-year-old transgender girl to continue to participate, at least for now, on a middle-school girls’ track team. In a brief unsigned order, the justices denied West Virginia’s request to be allowed to enforce a law that bars transgender girls from playing on girls’ sports teams… Read More

In three weeks, the justices will meet for their “long conference,” at which they will consider the thousands of petitions for review that have accumulated since their last conference in late June. The justices will grant only a few of these petitions. This post is the fourth in a series taking a closer look at… Read More

Looking ahead to the “long conference” – Part 3 In four weeks, the justices will meet for their “long conference,” at which they will consider the thousands of petitions for review that have accumulated since their last conference in late June. The justices will grant only a few of these petitions. This post is the… Read More

In just over a month, the justices will meet for their “long conference,” at which they will consider the thousands of petitions for review that have accumulated since their last conference in late June. The justices will grant only a few of these petitions. This post is the second in a series taking a closer… Read More

In just under seven weeks, the justices will meet for the “long conference,” at which they will consider the thousands of petitions for review that have accumulated since their last conference in late June. The justices will grant only a few of these petitions. This post is the first in a series that will take… Read More

Like many institutions, the University of California, Irvine School of Law held – in conjunction with Ms. Magazine – a panel to look back at the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 term. However, Wednesday’s event, held before a packed house at the Irvine Barclay Theater and live-streamed to an even wider online audience, was likely the only… Read More