Court to Examine Arizona Immigration Law
The Court today granted review in the Federal government’s challenge to Arizona’s controversial immigration reform law, with Justice Kagan recusing herself from the case. SCOTUSblog has a nice summary...
View ArticleFinal Week of Arguments
The Court this week will hear the the final arguments of the 2011 Term. The last argument, on Wednesday, will be in Arizona v. United States, the widely watched challenge to Arizona’s controversial...
View ArticleArizona v. United States – Argument Preview
Prof. Hank Perritt of the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law discusses the Federalism issues at stake in Arizona v. United States, the final oral argument of the Supreme Court’s 2011 term. The post...
View ArticleWhat Happened in Evenwel?
The big surprise from Monday’s Supreme Court decision in Evenwel v. Abbott was not how the Court ruled, but that it was unanimous in doing so. The case involved the way to measure population in...
View ArticleThis Day in Supreme Court History—January 11, 2000
On this day in 2000, United States v. Morrison was argued in front of the Supreme Court. Morrison was a constitutional challenge to a section of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) that...
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