The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, docket number 14-915, a case that could end the practice of nonunion public employees paying fees to u…
1,522 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Heffernan v. City of Paterson, a case on whether city officials violated the free speech rights of a police officer who was demoted after his superio…
1,399 viewsJustices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg talked about their views of the First Amendment and the origins and contemporary meanings of freedom. They were also asked questions about Nat…
13,768 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Reed v. Town of Gilbert, docket number 13-502, on whether a town ordinance limiting the placement of signs, including those posted by a church, viola…
1,108 viewsThe U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, docket number 14-144. The case concerns the First Amendment and the state of Texas’s ref…
1,711 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Elonis v. United States, docket number 13-983. The case involves free speech and criminal threats in the age of the internet and social media. At iss…
2,480 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Abercrombie and Fitch Stores, docket number 14-86. The case addressed whether the retailer violated the ci…
1,463 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Williams-Yulee v. Florida Bar, docket number 13-1499. The case involved campaign finance regulations in judicial races and whether the First Amendmen…
677 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Holt v. Hobbs. The case involved the issue of whether an Arkansas prison policy barring a Muslim inmate from growing a beard violated his freedom of …
2,664 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case Department of Homeland Security v. MacLean, docket number 13-894. At issue was whether whistle-blower protection extends to unauthorized dis…
1,396 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission. The case challenges the total amount of money one individual can contribute in each election cycle. The li…
2,923 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Town of Greece v Galloway, docket number 12-696, a separation of church-and-state case regarding prayers said before a town council meeting in upstat…
2,589 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in McCullen v. Coakley, docket number 12-1168, concerning whether a Massachusetts law requiring protesters at abortion clinics to stay 35-feet away from…
1,649 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Wood v. Moss, docket number 13-115. The case involved pleas by two Secret Service agents for “qualified immunity” from a lawsuit claiming that the ag…
1,005 viewsThe U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Apel, docket number 12-1038, a case concerning an anti-war activist who was protesting on land owned by a military base. The de…
372 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral arguments in U.S. v. Alvarez. The case involves the constitutionality of a federal law that makes lying about receiving military medals or honors a crime.
1,778 viewsThe Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Knox vs. Service Employees, docket number 10-1121. The case deals with the question of the First Amendment giving state employees the right to decli…
361 viewsJustices heard oral arguments in the case Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants, docket number 08-1448, which focused on the state’s ability to restrict the sale of violent video games a…
1,409 viewsLawyers presented oral arguments before the nine justices of the Supreme Court in the case of Snyder v. Phelps, docket number 09-751. The case centered on First Amendment rights and public p…
4,078 viewsSupreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Harvard Law, 1960) sat on a three-judge panel hearing the fictitious case of Fletcher v. Hermann. The mock appellate hearing was based in part on a rea…
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