SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 16, 2024
Solicitor General Paul Clement, as well as lawyers from the New Jersey public-interest firm Cause of Action. Although stare decisis analysis may apply to that holding, it does not apply to the interpretative methodology outlined in Chevron. In the Supreme Court, the fisheries are represented by former U.S.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. Americans United for Life argues that “ Roe and Casey contradict the stare decisis values of consistency, dependability, and predictability and are entitled to minimal stare decisis respect.”
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SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 1, 2021
But today, the only attendees will be the three arguing lawyers (and their second chairs), essential court personnel, most if not all of the justices’ law clerks, two spouses of justices, three sketch artists, and 18 news correspondents. Even before the justices take the bench, Stewart is chomping at the bit. Casey did that,” she replies. “No,
LawSites
JUNE 2, 2022
Designed to help lawyers improve the drafts of their briefs and legal documents, BriefCatch is a Microsoft Word add-in that offers some 11,000 style and editing suggestions, together with explanations and illustrations drawn from the exemplary writing of actual lawyers and judges. How the Draft Scored.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2021
In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence. Texas , a capital defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington.
The Crime Report
MAY 18, 2021
That not only amounts to a reversal of a precedent set earlier by the Court, but is an “alarming” step back in protecting juveniles, say Arthur Ago and Rochelle Swartz of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. In Miller v. The court is fooling no one,”” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in her dissent.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 30, 2022
After lingering on the court’s docket for more than a year, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal , ruling in an unsigned opinion that death-row prisoner Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided constitutionally ineffective performance at sentencing by failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence. New Relist.
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