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November 5, 2024 | SCOTUS Clarifies Standard for Retaliatory Arrest Claims
In response to federal court rulings striking down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage ban, Alabama Chief Justice Roy S. Moore argues that Alabama state courts are not bound by the district court’s decisions and, therefore, not required to issue...
In Horne v. Department of Agriculture, the property at issue is raisins. The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to consider whether the government’s Fifth Amendment duty to provide just compensation when it “physically takes possession of an inte...
New Jersey Lawyers have transitioned to electronic filing last year. Now the U.S. court system is doing the same. In his end-of-year report, Chief Justice John Roberts stated that the Court’s new system will allow the public to access documents ...
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court recently held that, Holt v Hobbs, the Arkansas Department of Correction’s “no beard” policy violates the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA). The decision extens...
In Smith v. Arizona, 602 U.S. ____ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court held that when an expert conveys ...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases this week. The issues before the Court in...
The U.S. Supreme Court returns to the bench on October 7, 2024. In the first week of the new term, ...
Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.