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Posted by William A. Jacobson on February 15, 2014 15 Comments
Almost a year ago I reported on how the case if Teresa Wagner, a Conservative Iowa law professor denied new trial in political discrimination case: The lawsuit by Teresa Wagner against the former Dean of the University of Iowa’s College of Law has received a lot...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 27, 2013 4 Comments
Today is oral argument in Windsor v. United States, challenging the Defense of Marriage Act. We have not followed the DOMA litigation very carefully to date. We did cover the secondary boycott effort directed at the King & Spalding law firm.  There was  a truly abysmal...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2012 29 Comments
The big shock in the Supreme Court’s Obamacare ruling was not that the law was upheld.  Most people thought there was a substantial chance Justice Kennedy would side with the four liberal Justices. But almost no one thought that it would be Chief Justice John...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2012 9 Comments
Argument was heard today in the Supreme Court in Fisher v. University of Texas. The issues, as summarized at ScotusBlog were: This morning the Court heard oral arguments in what is likely to be one of the highest-profile cases of this Term: Fisher v. University...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 25, 2012 18 Comments
You can check out the live action at ScotusBlog’s live feed.  The Supreme Court’s opinion page updates with new opinions not long after announced in court. If either of the two biggies come down, I’ll create a separate post. Updates:  Montana campaign case summarily reversed....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 05, 2012 53 Comments
The DOJ just filed its letter to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the authority of federal courts to rule on the constitutionality of congressional laws. The letter was signed by Eric Holder, and says in pertinent part: The longstanding, historical position ofthe United...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 03, 2012 38 Comments
The normally supportive commentariat is not happy, for a variety of reasons: My law school classmate Ruth Marcus, WaPo, Obama’s unsettling attack on the Supreme Court: “I would lament a ruling striking down the individual mandate, but I would not denounce it as conservative justices...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 30, 2012 22 Comments
I’m not predicting that the mandate or the entirety of Obamacare will go down at the Supreme Court.  But based on the oral arguments, those who support the law are in a state of panic. Digging back into Memeorandum from March 23, 2010, when Obamacare was signed...
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