Plurality decisions on the Supreme Court represent extreme dissensus. In those cases, no clear majority is formed for any one controlling rationale for the final disposition. Such decisions are important to understand both because they result in the erosion of the Court's credibility and...

The U.S. Supreme Court's October 2007 Term had a substantial and notable criminal docket. There were very significant Second, Sixth and Eighth Amendment decisions, as well as important rulings relating to basic habeas corpus principles and Federal statutes. This article provides a selected...

This article summarizes the arguments made against the juvenile death penalty in a U.S. Supreme Court amici curiae brief in Domingues v. State, 961 P.2d 1279 (Nev. 1998), cert. denied, 528 U.S. 963 (1999), and rebuts some of the State's propositions made in its response. It argues that United...

This paper investigates stock and option market reactions to judicial events in the United States Supreme Court (SC) relating to cases where at least one party involved is a public firm. Using a comprehensive dataset of more than 500 SC cases from 1948 to 2018, we find that the stock market...

This note places the Florida Supreme Court's Jackson v. Shakespeare Foundation, Inc. decision in the context of federal and state law and makes an attempt to explain why the court was compelled to issue a ruling that, at least on the surface, would appear to many to be “unfair.” This note...

Two prominent theories of legal decision making provide seemingly contradictory explanations for judicial outcomes. In political science, the Attitudinal Model suggests that judicial outcomes are driven by judges' sincere policy preferences - judges bring their ideological inclinations to the...