ORIN KERR: Is the Supreme Court too conservative? Not according to the public, it seems.

After a bill that would have legalized same-sex marriage was voted down by the New Jersey state Senate, six gay and lesbian couples have asked the state Supreme Court to allow them to wed. New Jersey already allows civil unions,...

The appellate division of the New York Supreme Court has ruled that the state may annul civil unions made in other jurisdictions. The case involved a lesbian couple that was civil unioned in Vermont seven years ago. They had been to...

Supreme Court justices are again expected to take up the Asian carp issue behind closed doors today, considering a second appeal from Michigan officials to...

Is the Supreme Court too conservative?  Not according to the public, it seems. Specifically, Rasmussen has a new poll out that asked 1,000 likely voters the following question:  “In political terms is the Supreme Court too liberal,...

Yesterday Lambda Legal filed suit in the New Jersey Supreme Court arguing that the state had failed to comply with a 2006 ruling from the Court requiring that gay couples be treated the same as straight couples. "We come back to the...

Earlier today I waxed paranoid about the Supreme Court. ProPublica argues that a legal challenge would have little legal basis. But so did an equal protection challenge to the Florida recount!...

In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that designers and manufacturers could fight to control how much a retailer was allowed to discount its goods. On Thursday, that decision was overturned by the Senate, who said that retailers could ...

Producer and songwriter Rob Fusari filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in New York State supreme court in Manhattan against two companies co-owned by singer-songwriter Lady Gaga, Team Love Child LLC and Mermaid Music LLC. A closer look at ...

CHICAGO — The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an Urbana hospital doesn't provide enough charitable services to qualify for a property tax exemption, a...

In short, I think it’s highly unlikely.   The big difference between Citizens United and a potential commerce clause challenge is that the Court had a steady trend of being more aggressive in applying First Amendment libertarianism ...

AP Photo/Illinois River Biological Station via the Detroit free Press, Nerissa Michaels The Supreme Court apparently isn't done taking up the matter of the Asian Carp. The Nine will take up an appeal from the state of Michigan...

Writing at Volokh: "On this basis I am fairly confident that a challenge to 'deem and pass' would face rough sledding before the D.C. Circuit, but the Supreme Court could be another matter." In other words, why is everyone so...

Lambda Legal filed a motion in New Jersey yesterday seeking marriage equality on behalf of six couples and the surviving partner of a seventh: "'The New Jersey Supreme Court ordered equality for same-sex couples when it decided our ...

The Kentucky Supreme Court issued what turned out to be a non-ruling today on the 141 Internet gambling-related domain names that the state attempted to seize. The court officially reversed the Court of Appeals ruling in favor of th...

Companies found guilty of fraudulent practices should pay for smoking cessation programs, public health organizations say, and the U.S. Supreme Court should enforce it.

Is a constitutional challenge to the use of “deem and pass” to enact health care reform precluded by the Supreme Court’s 1892 decision in Marshall Field & Co. v. Clark?  In that decision, the Supreme Court held that federal courts...

The question of registered sex offenders lists is a tricky one -- because for those people who really do commit sexually-driven crimes against minors, it's hard to be even remotely sympathetic to any complaints they have about the p...

The new site is supremecourt.gov, replacing the old supremecourtus.gov. I like the new layout: It provides the info I’m likely to be interested in right up front, such as recent opinions and the argument calendar. Dropping the “us”...

Promoted by JasonTrenton was buzzing today after the press conference announcing the latest twist in the gay marriage equality debate.  Here's a highlight reel, see for yourself. ...