• June 27, 2001 | Special To Law.Com

    The Supremes' Penultimate Gasp

    You are probably familiar with the old paradox that a dropped object will never hit the ground because it keeps falling only half the remaining distance. Days like Monday make me feel th

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  • July 25, 2003 | Legal Times

    A More Perfect Union

    Even without more, the U.S. Supreme Court's grand finale is a work of stunning humanity. At the core of his opinion for the court in Lawrence v. Texas, Justice Anthony Kennedy wr

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  • June 28, 2007 | Legal Times

    Ending Term, High Court Strikes Down Race-Based School Programs

    In a historic final day of the Supreme Court term Thursday, the justices by a 5-4 vote struck down plans in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., that used race as a factor in making public school assignmen

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  • July 10, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

    Is Honeymoon Over For Roberts Court?

    A Supreme Court term that began with hope and at least limited evidence that a new era of consensus had begun, dissolved in its final weeks into a blizzard of quarrelsome writing that clarifi

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  • July 10, 2006 | Alm

    Presiding Over a House Divided

    If this was the new look of harmony and consensus at the Supreme Court, it needs some work. There, on the final day of the court's term, June 29, was Justice John Paul Stevens, calmly

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  • July 25, 2005 | Legal Times

    How Will the 'New Kid' Make Friends?

    WASHINGTON � In the weeks before he argued a case to the Supreme Court, John Roberts Jr. made a habit of writing his six or seven main arguments on index cards and then shuffling the cards eve

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  • June 17, 2008 | Legal Times

    Kennedy Back in the Swing Seat

    WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court is unanimous or nearly so, as it has been for much of the term, there is no need for a swing vote. So Justice Anthony Kennedy

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  • July 26, 2005 | Alm

    How Would Roberts Impact Court Dynamics?

    In the weeks before he argued a case to the U.S. Supreme Court, John G. Roberts Jr. made a habit of writing his six or seven main arguments on index cards and then shuffling the cards every da

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  • July 25, 2005 | Legal Times

    How Would Roberts Impact High Court's Dynamics?

    In the weeks before he argued a case to the Supreme Court, John Roberts Jr. made a habit of writing his six or seven main arguments on index cards and then shuffling the cards every day or so.

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  • June 17, 2008 | Legal Times

    In Detainee Case, Kennedy Back in Swing Seat

    When the Supreme Court is unanimous or nearly so, as it has been for much of the term, there is no need for a swing vote. So Justice Anthony Kennedy has not been heard from very muc

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