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SCOTUS Exercises Equitable Power in Kansas Water Rights Dispute
By Mark Wilson, Esq. | Last updated on
In a fractured opinion authored by Justice Elena Kagan, the Supreme Court sided with Kansas in a battle over water rights in the Republican River Basin. Kagan,...
Details on SCOTUS' Sanction of Patent Attorney Howard Shipley
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What does it take to get disciplined by the Supreme Court Bar? How about letting your client write the briefs? Back in December, the Court issued an order to...
SCOTUS Oral Argument Preview: Week of February 23, 2015
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The Supreme Court is ready to begin its February oral arguments -- well, in what's left of February, anyway. After two weeks of arguments in January dealing...
SCOTUS on Ala. Gay Marriage: A Signal of What's to Come?
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Same-sex nuptials have taken place in parts of Alabama, after the U.S. Supreme Court voted 7-2 not to stay enforcement of a federal judge's order that the...
La. Prisoner Released, Dismissing Juvenile Life-Without-Parole Case
By Mark Wilson, Esq. | Last updated on
The U.S. Supreme Court will have one fewer case to argue this term, following the release of a Louisiana inmate who's been in prison for almost 30 years. In...
SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Lethal Injection Case
By Mark Wilson, Esq. | Last updated on
Why do these things always happen on a Friday? Last week, the Supreme Court dropped the bombshell that it was reviewing the Sixth Circuit's same-sex marriage...