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 essay, which is aimed primarily but not exclusively at audiences in the field of philosophy, originated in a lecture prepared for a series on quot;Natural Moral Law and Contemporary Societyquot; at the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America. Using the Supreme Court's...

A model of negligence in common law jurisdictions is a conceptual structure that basically seeks to align the three legal concepts used by courts to administer negligence law with the three substantive elements that constitute, justify and limit negligence liability. The three legal concepts are...

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...

The importance of racial and ethnic minorities on the bench and their influence on decision making has garnered some scholarly attention. While the normative arguments arguing for a racially diverse judiciary abound, the empirical literature on the topic at the state level is more limited and...

In Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle (2007) a divided Court struck down the efforts of school districts to integrate schools through the use of race as a factor in school assignment. Notable in the majority and dissenting opinions was sharp disagreement about the meaning of the...

The Supreme Court's 2012-2013 Term likely will be remembered best for the Justices' landmark ruling in United States v. Windsor, striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, and for the jurisdictional ruling in Hollingsworth v. Perry that helped to reopen the door for same-sex...

We consider the voting behavior of Supreme Court Justices, finding evidence of co-dependencies in their votes. Coincident with changes in the party imbalance of the Court over time, sharp discontinuities in these dependencies are evident. Overall, the patterns suggest a tradeoff between...