Browsing by Subject "United States. Supreme Court"

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    • Justice Ginsburg's Gradualism in Criminal Procedure 
      Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (Ohio State Law Journal, 2009)
      This article, written for a symposium analyzing Justice Ginsburg’s jurisprudence on the 15th anniversary of her tenure on the Supreme Court, is the first sustained look at her views on criminal procedure issues (search and ...
    • Lafler v. Cooper and AEDPA 
      King, Nancy J., 1958- (Yale Law Journal Online, 2012)
      The Supreme Court in Missouri v. Frye1 and Lafler v. Cooper2 broke new ground by holding for the first time that a defendant’s right to the effective assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment can be violated by the ...
    • Law School dean's reaction to affirmative action rulings 
      Syverud, Kent D. (Vanderbilt News Service, 2003-06-23)
    • Lecture: Core freedom or eviscerated right? Considering the future of Roe vs. Wade in the Roberts court 
      Lindquist, Stefanie A., 1963- (Vanderbilt News Service, 2006-01-24)
    • Making the Most of United States v. Jones in a Surveillance Society: A Statutory Implementation of Mosaic Theory 
      Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, 2012)
      In the Supreme Court's recent decision in United States v. Jones, a majority of the Justices appeared to recognize that under some circumstances aggregation of information about an individual through governmental surveillance ...
    • The Most Dangerous Justice Rides Again: Revisiting the Power Pageant of the Justices 
      Edelman, Paul H.; Chen, Jim, 1966- (Minnesota Law Review, 2001)
      Who is the most powerful Supreme Court Justice? In 1996 we measured voting power on the Court according to each Justice's ability to form five-member coalitions. From the set of all coalitions formed by the Court during ...
    • The Most Dangerous Justice Rides into the Sunset 
      Edelman, Paul H.; Chen, Jim, 1966- (Constitutional Commentary, 2007)
      In this essay, our third and last in a series, we employ our previously developed techniques to measure the power of the Justices in the Rehnquist Court over its full 11 year run. Once again, Justice Kennedy rises to the ...
    • The Most Dangerous Justice: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Mathematics 
      Edelman, Paul H.; Chen, Jim, 1966- (Southern California Law Review, 1996)
      We analyze the relative voting power of the Justices based upon Supreme Court decisions during October Term 1994 and October Term 1995. We take two approaches, both based on ideas derived from cooperative game theory. One ...
    • Not "Wrongful" by Any Means: The Court's Decisions in the Redistricting Cases 
      Swain, Carol M. (Carol Miller) (Houston Law Review, 1997)
      Minority representation itself should be viewed by the voting rights community as something much broader than the representation that takes place when voters and legislators share skin pigmentation. The Supreme Court and ...
    • Of Dialogue--And Democracy--In Administrative Law 
      Rossi, Jim, 1965- (Columbia Law Review Sidebar, 2012)
      Linda Cohen and Matthew Spitzer's study, "The Government Litigant Advantage," sheds important light on how the Solicitor General's litigation behavior may impact the Supreme Court's decision making agenda and outcomes for ...
    • The Practice of Dissent in the Supreme Court 
      Stack, Kevin M. (Yale Law Journal, 1996)
      The United States Supreme Court's connection to the ideal of the rule of law is often taken to be the principal basis of the Court's political legitimacy. In the Supreme Court's practices, however, the ideal of the rule ...
    • Professor Richard Nagareda on Supreme Court case Taylor v. Sturgell 
      Nagareda, Richard A. (Vanderbilt University. Law School, 2008-04-18)
    • Regulatory Economics in the Courts: An Analysis of Judge Scalia's NHTSA Bumper Decision 
      Viscusi, W. Kip (Law & Contemporary Problems, 1987)
      The automobile bumper standard issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in 1982 was the product of a decade of policy debate.' This debate continued in the courts until ultimately the NHTSA ...
    • Rehnquist and Panvasive Searches 
      Slobogin, Christopher, 1951- (Mississippi Law Journal, 2013)
      In the history of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist may have been the least friendly justice toward the view that the Fourth Amendment should be read expansively. Even he, however, might have interpreted the amendment ...
    • Res Ipsa Loquitur (Or Why the Other Essays Prove My Point) 
      Sherry, Suzanna (Vanderbilt Law Review, 2013)
      As all the Roundtable essays note, DaimlerChrysler asks the Supreme Court to decide whether and when the in-­forum activities of a corporate subsidiary should give rise to general personal jurisdiction over the corporate ...
    • RFRA-Vote Gambling: Why Paulsen is Wrong, As Usual 
      Sherry, Suzanna (Constitutional Commentary, 1997)
      Supreme Court currents are no less treacherous to navigators than are river currents-and, as Michael Paulsen himself has previously pointed out, RFRA shares more than a linguistic resonance with a river.1 Unfortunately, ...
    • The Supreme Court Takes Up Patent Law (audio) 
      Morrow, Charlene; Rubin, Edward L. (Vanderbilt University Law School, 2008-11-04)
      Charlene Morrow, a practicing attorney with the law firm Fenwick & West, provides an overview of Supreme Court decisions on patent cases in the last 25 years. She uses this overview to analyze the likelihood of a Supreme ...
    • The Supreme Court Takes Up Patent Law (video) 
      Morrow, Charlene; Rubin, Edward L. (Vanderbilt University Law School, 2008-11-04)
      Charlene Morrow, a practicing attorney with the law firm Fenwick & West, provides an overview of Supreme Court decisions on patent cases in the last 25 years. She uses this overview to analyze the likelihood of a Supreme ...
    • Supreme Court's Rulings on Congressional Districts Could Benefit Minority Voters 
      Swain, Carol M. (Carol Miller) (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 1996)
      With the Supreme Court's latest rulings, redistricters can no longer pack minority voters into super-minority districts. The effect of those decisions thus may ulti­ mately be far more beneficial for minority­ group voters ...
    • Term limits for Supreme Court justices? 
      Owens, Ann Marie Deer (Vanderbilt News Service, 2005-03-31)