The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to preserve the Republican hold on a South Carolina congressional district against a claim that it treats Black voters unfairly.
It’s been a little more than three months since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions. Although the decision didn’t necessarily take law schools by surprise, it forced them to quickly adapt their admissions processes.
A South Carolina case about gerrymandering – the drawing of legislative district lines to maximize political power – that could affect voting rights around the country will be one of the cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court during its upcoming term.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to preserve the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against a conservative-led challenge.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with a case that people with disabilities worry could make it harder to learn in advance what accommodations are available that meet their needs.
The justices are taking the bench at the U.S. Supreme Court for the first time since late June. Their new term begins Monday with ethics concerns swirling around the court.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether state laws that seek to regulate Facebook, TikTok, X and other social media platforms violate the Constitution.
The Supreme Court, which begins its new term on Monday, is awash in ritual. So it’s no surprise that the lawyers have a few regular, if occasionally eccentric, observances of their own.
In a wide-ranging discussion that featured both laughs and in-depth discussions of the fundamentals of democracy, United States Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Sept. 22 kicked off the 2023-2024 Notre Dame Forum.
It’s hard to imagine a less contentious or more innocent word than “and.”
But how to interpret that simple conjunction has prompted a complicated legal fight that lands in the Supreme Court on Oct. 2, the first day of its new term.
West Point was accused in a federal lawsuit Tuesday of improperly using race and ethnicity as factors in admissions by the same group behind the legal challenge that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court striking down affirmative action in college admissions.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked a lower court order curbing Biden administration efforts to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan will speak at Notre Dame University this month as part of the school’s Notre Dame Forum.
Alabama on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional lines in place as the state continues to fight a court order to create a second district where Black voters constitute a majority or close to it.
In a show of support for the decisional independence of administrative law judges, the American Bar Association has filed an amicus brief in a case involving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure has approved publication of proposed amendments to appellate, bankruptcy and civil rules.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh told a judicial conference he hopes there will be “concrete steps soon” to address recent ethics concerns surrounding the court, but he stopped short of addressing calls for justices to institute a code of conduct.
The Biden administration weakened regulations protecting millions of acres of wetlands Tuesday, saying it had no choice after the Supreme Court sharply limited the federal government’s jurisdiction over them.
Since the SFFA opinion was handed down, legal scholars and practitioners across the country have been grappling with the full extent of the holding.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told attendees at a judicial conference in Wisconsin on Monday that she welcomed public scrutiny of the court. But she stopped short of commenting on whether she thinks the court should change how it operates.