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The Court’s decision in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder largely dodged the core constitutional issue in question and has forced me to wonder how the Court will handle a different, though similarly charged, issue in Ricci v. DeStefano. To refresh everyone on the facts in Ricci, a group of white firefighters [...]

[UPDATE]: On February 25, 2009, I filed a brief as amicus curiae in this case. You can find it here.
Last week, the court granted review in Ricci v. DeStefano.
In 2003, the city of New Haven attempted to promote a number of firefighters to the ranks of captain and lieutenant based on a number of [...]

AJ and James have had a little disagreement about the constitutionality / advisability of age-discrimination laws. I’m not sure that my ideas on the advisability of such legislation would add much to the discussion, but have a few comments to add as to the constitutionality of legislation that targets certain age groups.
The Supreme Court has [...]

The Washington Post had a article recently about the way in which more and more American’s are viewing the court as too conservative. 33% of Americans feel that the Court is too conservative and only 47% believe that the court is balanced. 55% of Americans agree with the court’s ruling in Carhart but 70% disagree [...]

By now, you should all know that I’m not a fan of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District. In my humble opinion, the majority made a policy decision by contending that desegregation is good, but the way this community chose to go about it wasn’t effective. The [...]

The court’s last cases are being handed down as I type this. The conservative block of the court wins the Leegin, a case revolving around vertical integration and pricing laws. The court’s liberal block won a death penalty case that now upholds laws that restrict the use of the death penalty on people who have [...]

Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while, exams have been consuming every ounce of my life.
On December 4, 2006, the Court heard arguments in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District. The Seattle School District allows students to choose which of the 10 high schools in the district they attend, but if a [...]




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