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The end of affirmative action

September 7, 2025August 25, 2025

Colleges face a new era of admissions after the Supreme Court calls for race-neutral policies.
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Categories Legal Docket Tags affirmative action, bench statements, Chief Justice John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, equal protection clause, Fourteenth Amendment, race-neutral admissions, Students for Fair Admissions v Harvard, Students for Fair Admissions v UNC, Supreme Court, University of North Carolina

Defining the law

May 4, 2025August 5, 2024

Black’s Law Dictionary editor Bryan Garner turned his love for words into a career

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Categories Legal Docket Tags Black's Law Dictionary, Bryan Garner, definitions, legal jargon, legalese, lexicographer

Mayhem at the Marathon

May 4, 2025October 12, 2022

The Supreme Court addresses jury selection and mitigating evidence in the Boston Marathon bombers case.

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Categories Legal Docket Tags bombing, Boston Marathon, capital punishment, constitutional law, jury bias, jury duty, mitigating evidence, running, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Tsarnaev

Bitter Pills

August 7, 2023October 4, 2022

The Supreme Court addresses the Controlled Substances Act in a case about pill mill doctors.

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Categories Legal Docket Tags addiction, Controlled Substances Act, grammar, Joel Johnson, Kahn v US, opioids, pill mill doctor, Ruan v US, SCOTUS, statutory interpretation, subordinate conjunction, Supreme Court

Freedom Fighter

August 7, 2023September 13, 2022

An international human rights lawyer talks about growing up in communist Romania and her search for truth.

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Categories Legal Docket Tags communism, international human rights lawyer, Romania, Saving My Assassin, socialism, Virginia Prodan

Drawing the Line

August 7, 2023September 7, 2022

A courtroom artist talks about what he’s learned by sketching court proceedings.

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Categories Legal Docket Tags artist, Bill Hennessy, courtroom art, SCOTUS, Supreme Court

Level Praying Field

August 7, 2023August 30, 2022

The Supreme Court tackles the First Amendment in this case about a praying football coach.

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Categories Legal Docket Tags constitutional law, establishment clause, First Amendment, football, free speech, Kennedy v Bremerton, Moses Hogan singers, religion clause, school prayer, SCOTUS, Supreme Court

Taco ‘Bout Contracts

August 7, 2023August 16, 2022

The Supreme Court resolves a circuit split in a case about a Taco Bell employee who signed an arbitration agreement.

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Categories Legal Docket Tags arbitration, contracts, mediation, Morgan v Sundance, SCOTUS, Solomonic decision, Supreme Court, Taco Bell

U.S. v. Arthrex

August 7, 2023October 21, 2021

The Supreme Court decides a case about the AIA’s P-TAB of APJs hearing IPRs within the USPTO (don’t worry, we explain all that!)

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Categories Legal Docket Tags American Invents Act, Arthrex, Article III, Bunch O Balloons, constitutional law, Josh Malone, patent law, PTAB, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, USPTO

Nestle v. Doe 

August 7, 2023September 21, 2021

The Supreme Court addresses the Alien Tort Statute in a case about child slaves on West African cocoa farms.

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Categories Legal Docket Tags Alien Tort Statute, child slavery, cocoa industry, Nestle v Doe, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
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