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October 06, 2015 | Law.com

Justice Antonin Scalia has long relished punctuating his dissents with withering criticisms of the court's majority, but he outdid himself last term. "His dissents are a lot like those of Felix Frankfurter, who was on the wrong side of history on many issues," said high court scholar Melvin Urofsky, who's written a new book called Dissent and the Supreme Court.

By Tony Mauro

9 minute read

October 06, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief

Justice Antonin Scalia has long relished punctuating his dissents with withering criticisms of the court's majority, but he outdid himself last term. "His dissents are a lot like those of Felix Frankfurter, who was on the wrong side of history on many issues," said high court scholar Melvin Urofsky, who's written a new book called Dissent and the Supreme Court.

By Tony Mauro

9 minute read

October 05, 2015 | National Law Journal

With the future of affirmative action, union's agency shop fees, and the counting of one person, one vote in redistricting in the balance, the Roberts Court's conservative majority may return to dominate major rulings in the new term. But will it be conservative with a small or a big "c"?

By Marcia Coyle and Tony Mauro

8 minute read

October 05, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief

The closely watched "one person one vote" election law case Evenwel v. Abbott is set to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 30, according to an apparently inadvertent post on the court's website.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

October 05, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief

There were no missing pages in the 76-page "orders" list as there were a year ago. There was no rapid hunt through those pages by reporters scanning for a long-anticipated, high-profile issue of the year as there was with same-sex marriage. What a difference a year can make in the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Marcia Coyle and Tony Mauro

4 minute read

October 05, 2015 | Law.com

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday a series of policy changes that respond to public complaints about secret changes to the justices' decisions, hiring "line-standers" for high-profile oral arguments and "link rot" in the court's rulings.

By Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle

13 minute read

October 05, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief

The closely watched "one person one vote" election law case is set to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 30, according to an apparently inadvertent post on the court's website.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read

October 05, 2015 | Supreme Court Brief

There were no missing pages in the 76-page "orders" list as there were a year ago. There was no rapid hunt through those pages by reporters scanning for a long-anticipated, high-profile issue of the year as there was with same-sex marriage. What a difference a year can make in the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Marcia Coyle and Tony Mauro

4 minute read

October 04, 2015 | National Law Journal

Five U.S. Supreme Court justices attended the annual Roman Catholic "Red Mass" in Washington on Sunday, where an archbishop urged civic leaders to protect religious freedom and to embrace diversity and immigration. Interpretation of the nation's laws "always must include the very basic right to religious freedom," Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory told hundreds of attendees at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle.

By Tony Mauro

4 minute read

October 01, 2015 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday added 13 new cases to its argument docket for the term that begins Oct. 5, including a new employee-speech case and a test of the application of U.S. anti-racketeering law overseas. The orders list brings the number of cases that will be argued in the coming term to 48, and more will be added in the weeks ahead.

By Tony Mauro

3 minute read