Last month, the Easton Area School District in Pennsylvania voted 7-1 in favor of filing a writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court asking the Court to overturn the Third Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in B.H. v. Easton Area School District. What does this mean to you? If the SCOTUS grants the writ, thereby… Continue Reading
Monthly Archive: November 2013
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The weather calls for dipping temps and rain this weekend. A perfect excuse to shut in and read a brief report (12-pages. Come on guys! In the legal arena, that’s like a short story) on the doctrinal conversations that are Justice Elena Kagan’s SCOTUS opinions. Not an obvious pick, perhaps, for SB. Why’d we make… Continue Reading
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The SB Dream Team got together last weekend – one of us needed her arm twisted to come out to NYC for a non-Skype meeting – and podcasted our brains out. Arm-twisted and enthused we were to be together again. The results were pod-tastic! See/Hear for yourself. One podcast focuses on the 1st Amendment’s “Establishment… Continue Reading
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It’s rare when SCOTUS delivers a decision ordering a case back to a lower court for review that it garners the same attention it received when it was in the SC. But, this being a potentially decisive case about affirmative action programs in public universities and colleges, – one that brought Justice Sandra Day O’Connor… Continue Reading
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We’re following an interesting case in the Supreme Court called Fernandez v. California this term (OT13). “Interesting” and the 4th amendment = redundant. We know. But this case involves a particular area of law that many of our friends, family members, and students could be impacted by. The issue at hand, in laypeople language, is whether… Continue Reading
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Where has this infographic been all our lives? Find more anecdata here. Please enjoy, while we wonder why we didn’t come up with such SCOTUS awesomeness.
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Why aren’t our favorite SCOTUS reporters quicker with the Twitter?! Gah! If we can’t get SCOTUS hard press passes (like 26 people in the U.S. have these) then all we can do is rely on the journalists inside to give us the scoop. Thankfully, WaPo SC journalist Robert Barnes tweeted a link to his post-oral… Continue Reading
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5-Cent Explanation: Two residents from the town of Greece, NY, filed a federal suit claiming the town board’s practice of starting monthly meetings with a prayer delivered by a “chaplain of the month” was a violation of the First Amendment’s establishment clause. 10-Cent Explanation: In 1999, officials in Greece, NY, initiated the practice of opening… Continue Reading
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We are late to the party getting these two links up on the site. We blame Homeland, Scandal, and grading. Apologies! Please enjoy.
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