The State of California sued the U.S. Department of Commerce earlier this week after the Department announced its intentions to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Read the full complaint on Justia.
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Linda Brown, the young student who was at the center of a 1954 US Supreme Court case to desegregate public schools, passed away earlier this week. She was 76.
A divided Minnesota Supreme Court ruled last week that the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution protects driveways from warrantless searches. This comes slightly ahead of an anticipated ruling by the US Supreme Court in Collins v. Virginia on a very similar legal issue.
The ACLU filed a FOIA lawsuit to collect information about the policies, equipment, and training that apply to the search of electronic devices brought by passengers on domestic flights, a practice that may have begun last fall.
On March 13, 2018 the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion regarding Texas Senate Bill 4 (SB4), a Texas law that forbids "sanctuary city" policies throughout the state, and held that SB4's provisions, with one exception, did not violate the Constitution. Read the opinion summary and…
Last August, an alt-right rally called "Unite the Right" took place in Charlottesville, Virginia that resulted in the death of a woman after a man drove his car into a crowd of counterprotestors. In Sines v. Kessler, Charlottesville residents filed a lawsuit against the co-planners of the rally claiming they…
In July of last year, the Knight First Amendment Institute of Columbia University filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump, among others, claiming that the President's Twitter account constitutes a public forum subject to the First Amendment. The lawsuit alleges that by blocking certain users who are critical of him,…
A new crowd sourcing effort lead by researchers at the University of Minnesota Michigan State has launched to transcribe the handwritten conference notes of US Supreme Court Justices.
The decision rejected a gun rights organization's challenge to "premises license" provisions of a New York City law. Read the decision and opinion summary on Justia.
The latest aligned US Supreme Court oral argument audio and transcripts are now up on Oyez.