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April 1, 2025 | SCOTUS Rules Against EPA in Clean Water Case
In Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989), the U.S. Supreme Court established the legal framework for evaluating excessive force claims against law enforcement officers. Under the Court’s decision, courts must apply the objective reasonableness sta...
The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru and St. James School v. Biel. The cases involve the ministerial exception, a First Amendment doctrine that bars courts from adjudicating employme...
In Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. EEOC, 565 U.S. 171 (2012), the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the ministerial exception for the first time. The First Amendment doctrine precludes the application of employment-di...
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to wade into the battle over access to President Donald Trump’s financial documents. While the cases arise out of a partisan political dispute, they also involve significant issues of constitutional law. In a ...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in five cases last week. The cases involved diverse areas of law ranging from intellectual property to immigration. However, a similar question united many of the cases — the extent of judicial review ov...
In Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347 (1976), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the practice of dismissing public employees for partisan reasons runs afoul of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Facts of the Case Several Republican non-civil se...
The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. City of New York, New York. The case, which involves a constitutional challenge to a New York City ordinance that banned transporting a lic...
In Presser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252 (1886), the U.S. Supreme Court first considered the Second Amendment. It held that the Second Amendment prevented the states from “prohibit[ing] the people from keeping and bearing arms, so as to deprive the ...
In City and County of San Francisco v. EPA, 604 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court again limi...
In Hungary v. Simon, 604 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that alleging commingling of...
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases this week, all of which asked the justices to ...
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.