Empirical SCOTUS is a recurring series by Adam Feldman that looks at Supreme Court data, primarily in the form of opinions ...
Oral argument occupies a privileged place in appellate mythology. It is often described as the moment when judges engage counsel, probe weaknesses, and decide close cases. In modern appellate practice ...
The Supreme Court’s term is winding down after months of oral arguments in hotly contested cases, during a year when ...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in a disability-rights appeal brought on behalf of a student and her parents against their school district, alleging their child did not receive ...
The Byron White U.S. Courthouse in downtown Denver, which houses the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. (Photo by Michael Karlik) Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news ...
Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. We live blogged as the court heard oral arguments in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J., two cases on laws barring ...
Like all good lawyers, Supreme Court justices can argue over anything – including, it turns out, how best to argue.
David R. Fine, the head of the appellate practice at K&L Gates, walks through what he does to prepare before stepping up to the lectern. Preparing to Concede Early on, I build a concession list. From ...
President Trump tore into the Supreme Court and the “dumb judges and justices” making up the US federal court system on Monday, as a case involving his executive order banning so-called “birthright ...