Stephen A Miller And William A Lesser

October 10, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

Partisan gerrymandering is the configuring of election districts to advantage one political party over the other. The Supreme Court will address the constitutionality of that practice in one of the most highly anticipated cases of the current term.

By Stephen A. Miller and William A. Lesser

6 minute read

May 04, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

Lester Gerard Packingham Jr. ­celebrated the dismissal of a traffic ticket by posting "G-d is Good" on Facebook. He was then arrested and convicted of a felony for this post—North Carolina law prohibits registered sex ­offenders to access social media sites open to children. Now, the justices of the Supreme Court will determine whether this North Carolina law violates the First Amendment.

By Stephen A. Miller 
and William A. Lesser

9 minute read

March 09, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

At a recent oral argument, Justice Elena Kagan described the ­U.S.-Mexico border as a jurisdictional "no-man's land." The Supreme Court confronted those jurisdictional limits in Hernández v. Mesa, a case arising from the fatal shooting of a Mexican teenager (Sergio Hernández) by a U.S. border patrol agent; the American officer shot from a position in the United States and wounded Hernández at a location across the border in Mexico.

By Stephen A. Miller 
and William A. Lesser

10 minute read