Breaking News: U.S. Supreme Court

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Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee to fill the vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, has a strong commitment to rule-of-law values and is the best possible choice among the list of potential nominees that Trump circulated before the election, says a Supreme Court expert at Washington University in St. Louis.

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JHU expert looks at what may be behind the flurry of executive orders during President Trump’s first days in office.

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Memo to all attorneys submitting legal briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court: Be subtle and your chances of winning go up significantly.

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click to view recent experts and research related to the 2016 Election

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Several faculty experts at the University of Notre Dame are available to comment on issues including immigration, trade, security, international policy and more.

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At first glance, the new book Business and the Roberts Court (Oxford University Press) is a valuable read for lawyers practicing business law, and for the academics who teach it. Digging deeper, it’s a captivating mystery.Is the Roberts Court pro-business or not? Business and the Roberts Court provides clues about how the nation’s high court may respond to business cases put before it in the years ahead.

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The Supreme Court ruled June 27 to throw out a Texas law making access to abortion more difficult in the state.The move is an important win for women and their access to reproductive health care, said Susan Appleton, the Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis and a noted expert on family law and reproductive rights.

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This morning, the United States Supreme Court ruled in our favor in the case of Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin, affirming the university's right to continue using race and ethnicity as one factor in our holistic admissions process.

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The American Sociological Association (ASA) applauds the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling today in the affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. The judgement allows the university to continue using race as a factor in admissions decisions.

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By a 4-4 vote, a short-handed U.S. Supreme Court today let stand a lower court’s 2-1 decision to block President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration. The decision is “deeply regrettable,” said a noted expert on immigration law at Washington University in St. Louis.The effect of the Supreme Court’s split decision is to affirm the judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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On May 16, the U.S. Supreme Court sent the Zubik vs. Burwell case, a challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive requirement for employers, back to the lower courts for further examination, leaving women employees and students at workplaces around the country in limbo, according to Elizabeth Sepper, associate professor of law and expert on health law at Washington University in St.

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A recent Supreme Court case that was expected to limit privacy laws actually has the potential to expand them, according to an expert on privacy law at Washington University in St. Louis.“This is a big deal,” said Neil Richards, professor of law. “The surprising decision actually gives Congress a green light to allow consumers to sue corporations or online sites that violate their privacy rights or consumer protection laws.

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The thousands of students and families gathered for the University of Rhode Island's 130th Commencement will hear from one individual whose words are part of the national dialogue on equal justice and constitutional law.

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After the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Republican senators, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, announced that they would neither consider nor vote on any nominee to the court picked by President Barack Obama. According to a new paper co-written by two University of Illinois legal experts, that position may be more problematic - both pragmatically and constitutionally - than those senators realize.