Constitutional Law Government Laws Stare Decisis 
Legal Research is Easy
AUGUST 5, 2019
Thing is, these days law and the decisions courts hand down are very much like that. The kicker is that unlike parents (who, hopefully, are on the same page and the kid realizes that it's unlikely dad will overrule mom), it is critical that courts make the same rulings over and over so that people know how law will be applied.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 17, 2023
Federal law bars employers from firing workers for practicing their religion unless the employer can show that the worker’s religious practice cannot “reasonably” be accommodated without “undue hardship.” On Tuesday in Groff v. When a federal district judge rejected that argument, Groff appealed to the U.S.
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JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Yes, a majority of the public is angry about the court’s decision in June to eliminate constitutional protection for the right to abortion. But the bottom-line result isn’t the only reason for the fury…The inflamed public reaction stems also from the fact that the law changed because the court’s membership changed.”
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. Legislative authority.
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
When Berkeley Law School Dean and constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky taught Criminal Procedure in the Fall of 2019, he became frustrated when he realized many of the cases that were the subject of his lectures ended with the police winning and the rights of suspects losing. Or does stare decisis make it stuck as a precedent?
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