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Justices Thomas and Alito on Bias Response Teams

In Speech First, Inc. v. Sands, the Court vacated the Fourth Circuit's decision upholding Virginia Tech's Bias Intervention and Response Team Policy, on the grounds that the case had become moot. Justice Jackson would have denied the petition because of her views about when lower court decisions should be vacated…

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Students Don't Have Right to Lie About Administrators

From Judge Robert Jonker's opinion today in Ashton v. Okemos Public Schools (W.D. Mich.): [Plaintiff's] daughter, E.B., served a time-limited expulsion from her high school after she lied to her parents and to the police about her interaction at school with an administrator and tried to get another student to…

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Ten Reflections on Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett's Votes In Dobbs

On Friday, I wrote a post that totaled nearly 6,000 words about the New York Times bombshell report on Dobbs. My initial goal was to simply lay out all of the new disclosures--and there were many of them. Now, I've had some time to think about this new information. Here,…

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16 Disclosures from the New York Times Leak Report About Dobbs

Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak of the New York Times have published a remarkable story about Dobbs that reports on private correspondences, votes at conference, and more. This post will highlight sixteen of the largest disclosures, and close with some broader thoughts. And I've presented this narrative in (roughly) chronological…

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Counting to Four on LGBT without NMG

Justice Gorsuch has been consistent from Kastl to Edmo to Grimm to Bostock to Kincaid to Tingley.

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The Myth of the Federal Private Nondelegation Doctrine, Part 1

Serial-blogging my recent article in the Notre Dame Law Review

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The mockery of an unelected monarchy

The Supreme Court can’t be bothered by silly things like a code of ethics or checks and balances

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"Lawmakers Aren't Afraid of Mothers as Voters—But They Will Be"

Why Ohio's "off-year" election results matter.

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Justice Alito: No Need to Recuse When Justice Has Been Interviewed by a Lawyer (or by Employee of Party) in a Pending Case

The matter involves a Wall Street Journal interview of Justice Alito, which didn't discuss the case in which one of the interviewers is a party.

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Are We Living Through a Standing Realignment?

Recent Supreme Court cases suggest that both the left and the right are already repositioning themselves.

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Justice Barrett's Shadow Docket Policy: Do The Opposite Of Whatever The Fifth Circuit Did (Updated)

Forget Doe v. Mills. Justice Barrett will grant relief on the shadow docket when the Fifth Circuit steps out of line.

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Second Amendment Roundup: The Supreme Court stays vacatur of ATF regulations.

The 5th Circuit finds plaintiffs likely to succeed in challenging another set of ATF rules that implicate the Second Amendment.

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Shadow Docket Delays

What does it mean when the Circuit Justice extends an administrative stay?

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Conservatives Should Not Be Surprised By Justice Barrett's Cautious Approach

Barrett was added to the SCOTUS short-list only seventeen days after she was confirmed to the Seventh Circuit.

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Conservatives Should Not Be Surprised By Justice Gorsuch's Opinion in Bostock

Revisting Kastl v. Maricopa County Community College District.

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Is the ADA Tainted By Unconstitutional Animus?

Is the exclusion of "gender identity disorders" from the ADA based on a "bare desire to harm"?

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Five Decades From Hardison to Groff

How could all of those courts get Hardison so wrong?

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Making Sense Of The Votes In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.

The decision this term that has the largest potential for a legal "jolt" was Mallory.

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Looking Back on the Supreme Court's 2022-23 Term

Some end-of-term comments and an assessment of my end-of-term predictions.

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The Irony of Department of Education v. Brown—the Other Student Loan Forgiveness Case Decided by the Supreme Court Yesterday

The Court unanimously ruled the plaintiffs in that case lacked standing. But they might end up getting what they wanted more fully than anyone else involved in the legal battle over student loan forgiveness.

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"Dormant Commerce" and Corporate Powers

Some reflections on the decision in Mallory.

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What Does U.S. v. Texas Tell Us About The DACA Litigation?

Is this a ticket good for one ride?

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What's Left Standing of Special Solicitude for States After U.S. v. Texas?

The Supreme Court did not overturn the standing holding of MAssachusetts v. EPA, but it may have left it on life support.

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Will Massachusetts v. EPA get the Lemon v. Kurtzman quiet interment?

The landmark environmental decision may have already been abandoned.

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Justice Kavanaugh's Arrested Development

U.S. v. Texas, Linda v. Richard, and Brett v. Amy.

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