SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 3, 2025

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. Over the past couple of conferences, the Supreme Court has continued to clear out the rolls of relisted cases. The court denied review on March 24 in Franklin v. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Share Jeffrey Minear, who has served as the counselor to Chief Justice John Roberts since 2006, will retire at the end of the month, the court announced on Tuesday. Minear also managed the court’s budget and worked to revitalize the Supreme Court Fellows program. Before coming to the court, Minear served for 21 years in the U.S.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In recent years, McCormack has become a leading champion of initiatives to enhance access to justice, both within Michigan and nationally. She is on the governing council of the American Bar Association Center for Innovation and is a strategic advisor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Future of the Profession Initiative.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JANUARY 18, 2018

Lansing, MI – On January 16, the State Bar of Michigan in conjunction with Legal Talk Network released their new podcast, On Balance. Janet Welch, executive director of the State Bar of Michigan, said of the podcast, “I thought this was a terrific new way to deliver really meaningful content to our members.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The one unfortunate exception to this rule has been the Supreme Court’s approval of racial discrimination in education, which has allowed discrimination against Asian students, most prominently, to fester and grow. The Supreme Court, hopefully, will rectify this egregious wrong. Even top White applicants have a 2.5%

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LawSites

MARCH 14, 2024

Possibly the best deal in legal tech conferences is LIT Con , the annual legal tech conference produced by Suffolk Law School’s Legal Innovation and Technology Lab and its Legal Innovation and Technology Institute. Even at full price, it is just $50. But you can sign up by tomorrow for just half that.

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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 15, 2014

Cooley Law School. In 2006, Professor Mitchell received the Justice For All award from the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan for her Innocence Project work. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the Ohio Supreme Court, and trial and appellate courts in Ohio and Michigan.

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 4, 2023

Supreme Court landmark decisions and state constitutions and individual rights. The program is billed as one that will explore the interplay between recent U.S.

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 8, 2021

Michigan Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack shares why she’s optimistic there’s momentum for change to address unmet legal needs. McCormack tells former Washington State Bar Association President Patrick Palace about how she walked out of law school into an access-to-justice crisis. A moment with the most potential?

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JonathanTurley

JULY 21, 2024

I have long been critical of the erosion of free speech in Italy and other Western European countries, including the use of criminal libel laws against critics of the police or government. University of Michigan Law Professor and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade has written how dangerous free speech is for the nation.

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LawTechnologyToday

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

At DOJ, Julie served in the Tax Division, Civil Division, and Federal Programs Branch, where she handled cases raising complex regulatory and administrative law questions in federal trial and appellate courts across the US. Copyright Office, and as an Adjunct Professor of Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing at Georgetown Law.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The legal profession still lags the business world in cloud usage, but we still expect the practice of law to be much more cloud-intensive in the near future than it is now, with courts and clients driving many of the changes. COVID has pushed us to online meetings, online court hearings, and other forms of online collaboration tools.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 17, 2023

Below is my column in the Hill on the opposition to the Supreme Court’s opinion declaring the use of race in admissions to be unconstitutional. Under the preexisting standards for the use of race in admissions, schools spent decades assuring the courts that race was not being weighed heavily and had only marginal effects on admissions.

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 4, 2020

We also learned some new things about “ deepfakes ” and how that could affect legal practice, why litigation finance is about to get really interesting, how ODR is closing one part of the A2J gap, and why virtual reality may become a real staple in courts very soon.

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Above The Law

APRIL 29, 2025

University of Michigan isn’t the only T14 getting harassed by FASORP. As if getting singled out by Supreme Court cases and Executive Orders wasn’t enough, Harvard recently had to deal with the spite group emailing their 1Ls as they prepare for the arduous write on process. Louis School of Law.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But that doesn’t mean s**t to the the Supreme Court. The conservative majority on the Court is gunning for Obergefell , the landmark case that held there is a federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage. The conservative Court is getting an assist from states. ” But that doesn’t feel so far off.

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Above The Law

APRIL 29, 2025

In what has to be the best case for law schools to begin teaching a summer module on how to add watermarks to briefs, a Michigan based law firm decided to zhuzh up their legal writing with a picture. Everyone and their Dragon really has been getting a law degree. Louis School of Law.

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ALPS

AUGUST 11, 2021

We are wrapping up a three-part series looking at the interconnection of well-being in law schools. We have had Linda Sugin from Fordham Law School, we have had Jennifer Leonard from Penn Law, and today we are so excited to welcome Janet Stearns from the Miami School of Law. That has stayed with me.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Share In 2003, a divided Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger that the University of Michigan Law School could consider race in its admissions process as part of its efforts to assemble a diverse student body. How, Alito asked, can a court determine whether the benefits of diversity have been achieved?

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Since a 1976 Supreme Court ruling , incarcerated individuals are the only group of people in the United States to have a constitutional right to health care. An article published in 2021 by University of Michigan Law School researchers argues that the law which excludes inmates from receiving Medicaid funds is detrimental to inmate health.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It is written by Mark Chandler , former chief legal officer at Cisco Systems from 2001- 2021 and now a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School and a fellow at the Stanford’s Deborah L. If courts move to standardize the collection of “data” (i.e.,

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ABA Journal

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Yale Kamisar, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School who influenced landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the rights of criminal defendants, has…

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Patently O

MARCH 24, 2022

Editors note – I invited Professor Nina Mendelson (University of Michigan Law School) to author a guest post after reading her 2020 Admin. Law Review article titled “ The Permissibility of Acting Officials: May the President Work Around Senate Confirmation? The leading Supreme Court decision, United States v.

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Connor Reporting

MARCH 19, 2025

Ethel Zatyko and Rena Pettypiece had taken a twelve-month course in the hope of becoming court stenographers. They wrote letters of application to court officials. But when the answers came, their hopes were dashed: the RCAF might recruit women wireless operators, but Alberta doesnt allow women court reporters.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The problem is that the courts already recognize some religious exemption arguments. Those arguments are based on both the constitutional protection of religious values but also laws like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. There is a move in many states to refuse to allow such exemptions, but courts have pushed back.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

Moreover, as part of the War on Drugs, the Supreme Court has given law enforcement the weapons necessary to declare war on certain communities, namely areas demarcated or branded as “high crime areas” — and thus allow for easier search warrant approval. The forthcoming paper can be accessed here.

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The Crime Report

MAY 17, 2022

The Registry is a joint research project of the University of California, Irvine Newkirk Center for Science & Society, University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University College of Law. Oddly enough, the biggest battles I fought trying to get the work done were with colleagues in the office.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Brandon Hasbrouck is an assistant professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has written an article in The Nation calling for a new form of reparations based on voting. the outcomes in Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania were worryingly close.”. In 1964, the Supreme Court handed down Reynolds v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2024

This movement is expanding and accelerating in its effort to curtail the right that Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once called “indispensable” to our constitutional system. Starting in secondary schools, we have raised a generation of speech phobics who believe that opposing views are triggering and dangerous.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2021

Miriam Childs , Director, Law Library of Louisiana, Louisiana Supreme Court. California Supreme Court. Ben Crump, Founder , Ben Crump Law, PLLC. James Duggan , Director of the Law Library and Associate Professor of Law, Tulane University. Tonya Evans , Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson Law.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 18, 2022

When I was clerking in Louisiana after graduating law school, there was story of a rather notorious local judge asking counsel in a criminal case if he was ready to present the case of the defendant. That law has been treated as dormant given the 1973 decision in Roe v.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

She was alluding to the 2021 Capitol riot, but she and her party are also attacking the foundations of our democracy: the Supreme Court and the freedom of speech. Harris, said they were open to the idea of packing the court by expanding the number of seats. said in 2021, explaining her support for a court-packing bill. “I

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 3, 2022

Here is the column: The first major decision of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson after her Supreme Court nomination may be to recuse herself from one of the most significant cases before the court. For a lower court judge, this would be a no brainer.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Walz proceeded to quote the line from a 1919 case in which Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said you do not have the right to falsely yell fire in a crowded theater. Ohio , Goldman cut me off and said, “ We don’t need a law class here.” It is the favorite mantra of the anti-free speech movement. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y.,

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

Share President Joe Biden will issue an executive order to create a commission to study potential reforms to the Supreme Court, the White House announced on Friday. In its statement, the White House indicated that the commission will be a bipartisan one, made up of experts “on the Court and the Court reform debate.”

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Most recently , he launch a litigation finance fund and a boutique law firm. He has clerkships on his resume (for then-Judge Samuel Alito on the federal circuit court before going on to his own SCOTUS clerkship with John Roberts), as well as a stint in Biglaw ( reportedly at Sidley ), before making a tech bro turn.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Childs’ supporters see her as an outsider who would bring fresh perspective to the Supreme Court. centric resumes that have become typical for Supreme Court short-listers in recent decades. She did not clerk on the Supreme Court, serve in the Department of Justice, or spend time at a white-shoe D.C. Early life and education.

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