On Monday, September 9, 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the compensatory damages award of $5.25 million in litigation stemming from author John Steinbeck's estate, brought by Steinbeck's stepdaughter, Waverly Scott Kaffaga. In its ruling, the Ninth Circuit vacated the $7.9 million punitive damage award against Steinbeck's daughter-in-law, Gail Knight Steinbeck. Read More.
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Mad About Kavanaugh and Gorsuch? The Best Way to Get Even Is to Pack the Court
The New York Times, September 17, 2019
Their lifetime appointments cry out for Democratic hardball.
Answers to Reader Questions on Our Brett Kavanaugh Essay
The New York Times, September 16, 2019
The Times’s deputy editorial page editor, James Dao, answers questions about how we handled an essay on the Supreme Court justice and a third accusation of sexual misconduct.
Supreme Court Says Judges Are Above Politics. It May Hear a Case Testing That View.
The New York Times, September 16, 2019
A new petition asks the court to decide whether Delaware can factor in the political affiliations of judges to try to seek ideological balance on its courts.
North Carolina Three-Judge Panel Smartly Uses the Room the U.S. Supreme Court in Rucho v. Common Cause Left for State Courts to Enforce State Constitutions
Justia's Verdict, September 12, 2019
Illinois law dean and professor Vikram David Amar comments on a recent decision by a panel of state-court judges in North Carolina striking down partisan gerrymandering schemes as violating that state’s constitution. Amar had argued after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Rucho v. Common Cause that state courts would have to address partisan gerrymandering on “independent and adequate state-law grounds” (rather than on federal constitutional grounds), which is exactly what the North Carolina court did.
Press Release Regarding Justice Ginsburg
Supreme Court of the United States, August 23, 2019
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today completed a three-week course of stereotactic ablative radiation therapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The focused radiation treatment began on August 5 and was administered on an outpatient basis to treat a tumor on her pancreas. The abnormality was first detected after a routine blood test in early July, and a biopsy performed on July 31 at Sloan Kettering confirmed a localized malignant tumor. As part of her treatment, a...
Trump administration ends effort to include citizenship question on 2020 census
SCOTUSblog, July 11, 2019
This afternoon President Donald Trump announced that his administration will end its battle to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census. The news came two weeks after the Supreme Court blocked the government from including the question, with the court’s four liberal justices joining Chief Justice John Roberts in ruling that the reason…
