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25 Nov The solicitor general files brief in President Trump’s challenge to New York subpoena
Of the two cases involving subpoenas for President Donald Trump’s financial records that are currently before the Supreme Court, the D.C. case—arising out of a subpoena to Mazars from the House Oversight Committee—is likely to generate larger headlines when the justices rule on Trump’s application...
13 Nov Argument analysis: Justices lean toward validating immediate appeals of bankruptcy orders denying relief from the automatic stay
I suggested in my preview of Ritzen Group v. Jackson Masonry that the argument might tell us a great deal about how the Supreme Court will approach this technical bankruptcy matter. And for once I think I was right, as the argument suggested a considerable...
06 Nov Argument analysis: Justices examine structure and purpose of puzzling immigration statute
On Monday morning, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Barton v. Barr, a case that requires the justices to decipher the stop-time rule, an oddly worded provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act. Congress embedded this rule within the statute governing cancellation of removal,...
29 Oct Argument preview: Justices consider impact of safe-berth clause in maritime charter
Having decided two maritime-law cases during its October 2018 term, the Supreme Court will consider its third admiralty case in just over a year when it hears argument in CITGO Asphalt Refining Company v. Frescati Shipping Company on November 5. The case asks whether federal...
28 Oct Argument preview: Can a noncitizen be “inadmissible” if they are not seeking admission to the U.S.?
With public attention focused squarely on the DACA litigation, Barton v. Barr is not the marquee immigration case for the October 2019 term. Nevertheless, the case presents a compelling question of statutory interpretation, and has the potential to affect thousands of noncitizens with criminal records...
02 Oct Ask the authors: An innovative approach to learning the court’s biggest cases
Textbooks of constitutional law have, for decades, followed a similar pattern in their quest to help law students synthesize a surfeit of Supreme Court decisions. In their new multimedia platform, “An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know” (Wolters Kluwer, 2019),...
12 Sep Symposium: Dream deferred
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia is an immigration attorney, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar and founding director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Penn State Law – University Park. She has served as an expert or co-counsel in litigation in defense of DACA. The anecdotes in...
06 Sep Academic highlight: The rise of the “hot bench”: what it means for the Supreme Court and democracy
Terry Skolnik is Assistant Professor at the University of Ottowa, Faculty of Law. Beginning in the mid 1990s, the dynamics of Supreme Court hearings started to change significantly. Many of these changes persist today. Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag’s research demonstrates that the justices now...
