The New York Times today has a fascinating article documenting The Roberts Court’s Surprising Move Leftward. Reporters Alicia Parlapiano, Adam Liptak and Jeremy Bowers analyze the court’s decisions from 1946 to the present to conclude that this term could be among the court’s most liberal…
Supreme Court News Site Looks Nice, But Disappoints on Content
Thomson Reuters – the company that owns Westlaw – has been beefing up its coverage of legal affairs in recent years, with reporting and commentary available through the Thomson Reuters News & Insight website. As part of this push into enhanced legal coverage, the company recently launched a new offshoot devoted to covering the…
Coming Monday, A New Look for SCOTUSblog
Supreme Court watchers usually set their sights on the first Monday in October. This year, however, they might want to pay attention to the last Monday in September. On Monday, the preeminent Supreme Court blog, SCOTUSblog, will unveil a new look and some new features.
SCOTUSblog has long stood…
Free Case Law – and a History Lesson
Law.com this week published my article, Get Your Free Case Law on the Web. No sooner did it appear than I received an e-mail from a reader questioning how several of the sites discussed in the article could claim to have U.S. Supreme Court cases from before there was a Supreme Court. In…
The Supreme Court on Twitter?
There is now a Twitter feed for news from the U.S. Supreme Court. The blog Law Tech Review suggests that this feed comes directly from the court, which uses it to disseminate information about its latest activities. But I strongly doubt that the feed is from the court. If it is from…
First Monday: Supreme Court Resources
In honor of this first Monday in October, I have rounded up links to my previously posted items and columns that cover resources related to researching and tracking the Supreme Court.
Column:
August 2003: A Supreme Collection of High Court Resources.Blog posts:…
Podcast Double Header: Supreme Court Review and Pet Food Litigation
I’ve been so busy lately, I’ve neglected to plug the most recent episodes of my own podcast. So here is two weeks’ worth of Lawyer2Lawyer:…
LII discontinues older RSS feed
As I mentioned in this 2005 article, The Power of RSS, Cornell’s Legal Information Institute has two RSS feeds for Supreme Court decisions, one for today’s decisions and another for recent decisions. But if you are using the RSS version 0.91 feed I linked to in that article, you’ll need to update your…
Lawyer2Lawyer: Punitives and the Supreme Court
This week on our legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss the implications of the Supreme Court’s punitive damages decision, Philip Morris USA v. Williams for big business and big tobacco. Joining my cohost J. Craig Williams and I are Michael Gerhardt, professor of law at UNC School of Law;…
Justia Does FindLaw One Better
Way back in July and August 2005, I wrote a series of posts here about what I called the aging core of FindLaw. In the first post of the series, I started with this:
…“FindLaw’s core is showing its age. Started in 1994 as an index of legal resources on the Internet,
Supreme Court site adds special-master reports
The Supreme Court last week began publishing special master reports on its Web site. Its announcement said:
…“Special Master reports are now being posted on the Supreme Court’s Web site. On the ‘Docket’ page of the Web site you will find a link titled ‘Special Master Reports.’ The Court will add reports as
ABC legal reporter launches blog
Jan Crawford Greenburg, a correspondent for ABC News who covers the Supreme Court and provides legal analysis, launched a blog today, Legalities. Her new book, Supreme Conflict, hits bookstores Tuesday.…