Breaking News: U.S. Supreme Court

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President Barack Obama’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Judge Merrick Garland, could make senate Republicans think twice about stonewalling the nomination process, especially as the presidential election nears, said Greg Magarian, constitutional law expert at the School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis.“President Obama may have decided that the Democratic candidates didn’t need a nomination fight to animate the base,” Magarian said.

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Supreme Court appointment experts available for live and taped interviews.

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University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Professor Michael Teter is available to discuss the merits of Merrick Garland as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice —as well as how Garland's appointment will change the court's make-up and political considerations that factor into the process.

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Today, Wednesday, March 16th, President Obama said he would nominate Merrick B. Garland as the nation’s 113th Supreme Court justice. Experts needed for media inquiries.

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Four Amherst College Supreme Court experts--including two former clerks to justices--will discuss the filling of Antonin Scalia’s seat

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One hundred years ago, Washington became embroiled in one of the biggest struggles over a Supreme Court justice in American history. What can it tell us about what's going on today?

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She recognized discriminatory laws hurt women – and men – and sought to revamp them one case at a time.

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In this Q&A, Baylor Law School professors discuss Justice Scalia and the importance and power of persuasive and informative writing in today’s legal process.

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In 2011, California embarked on one of the biggest and most controversial criminal justice experiments in history. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Plata, the state passed the Public Safety Realignment Act – in legislative shorthand AB 109 – which required that California’s 58 counties develop policies that best fit their local needs in anticipation of the transfer of 33,000 inmates from state prisons to county supervision. Their options included adding jail beds, putting the transferees on probation or under electronic monitoring, or providing drug/alcohol rehabilitation services.

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Three faculty members at the University of Notre Dame Law School who have clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Feb. 13 at the age of 79, say he will be missed.

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WFU law professors provide insight on the Supreme Court’s decision on Clean Power Plan.

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Erwin Chemerinsky, a controversial critic of the U.S. Supreme Court, will speak at the S.J. Quinney College of Law on Feb. 4 as part of the 50th Annual Leary Lecture. The lecture will explore how changes in society and in the court’s ideology have produced major shifts in some constitutional areas, while others have remained remarkably unchanged.

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Article Body 2010The United States Supreme Court agreed Jan. 19 to hear United States v. Texas, the challenge brought by 26 states to President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration. The stakes could not be larger, and they are not limited to immigration, said an immigration law expert at Washington University in St.

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Article Body 2010   A California teachers’ union case being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this week has American labor unions bracing for the worst. Many predict its decision this summer could cripple the ability of public sector unions to collect mandatory dues from the employees they represent under collective bargaining agreements.

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Jimmy Gurulé, professor of law in the University of Notre Dame Law School, with six other law professors, has filed an amici curiae, or friends of the court brief, on behalf of the families of the 241 U.S. servicemen killed in the 1983 truck-bombing attack on a Marine barracks in Beirut.

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In what may be the first amicus brief signed by prominent rap artists, a University of California, Irvine professor and two hip-hop scholars have enlisted Killer Mike, T.I. and Big Boi, among others, in a request to have the U.S. Supreme Court hear a First Amendment case involving violent lyrics penned by a high school student in Mississippi.

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Article Body 2010The back-and-forth decisions of a Utah juvenile court judge this week regarding the foster child of a lesbian couple expose the possible limits of the Supreme Court's ruling this summer on gay marriage, says a national expert in family law at Washington University in St. Louis. Utah juvenile court judge Scott Johansen first ruled that the 1-year-old foster child of a lesbian couple must be removed from the couple’s home and sent to “a more traditional home,” then reversed himself a day later.

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Article Body 2010The Obama Administration announced Nov. 10 it will seek United States Supreme Court review of a ruling blocking President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration. Timing is crucial, says an expert on immigration law at Washington University in St. Louis.“The government has a strong case in this appeal and nothing to lose," said Stephen H.

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Article Body 2010The United States Supreme Court agreed Nov. 6, for the fourth time in three years, to rule on challenges to the Affordable Care Act. This time, religious nonprofit organizations are objecting to the law's birth control mandate. The court's 2014 decision in the Hobby Lobby case to allow corporations to opt out of covering certain forms of birth control for employees was an anti-religous liberty decision, said Washington University in St.

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While much attention has been paid to how the Supreme Court decides its cases, far less attention has been paid to the question of which cases the Court chooses to decide — and which cases it chooses not to. Notre Dame law professors argue that the Court may not be living up to its purpose.

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Ellen Andersen, associate professor of political science and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at the University of Vermont, and author of "Out of the Closets and into the Courts: Legal Opportunity Structure and Gay Rights Litigation" breaks down the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 vote in favor of same-sex marriage.

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Professor Courtney Cahill is available to discuss the Supreme Court's ruling on Same Sex Marriage.

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Official statement from the American College of Rheumatology on the King v. Burwell Supreme Court ruling and what this means for the rheumatology community.