Capitol Comments

In Tandon v. Newsom the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Ninth Circuit should have preliminarily struck down California’s and Santa Clara County’s COVID rule permitting only three families to gather in homes at a time. The Supreme Court reasoned that this rule likely violates the First Amendment because at-home religious exercise is treated less favorably than comparable secular activities.

In an unauthored decision the Supreme Court...

In Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether an attorney general should be permitted to intervene in a lawsuit after a federal court of appeals invalidates a state statute when no other state actor will defend the law.  

In 2018 Kentucky passed an abortion law, and the Secretary of Health and Family Services was sued. Lawyers from Health and Family Services and the Office of...

In City of San Antonio, Texas v. Hotels.com, L.P., the State and Local Legal Center (SLLC) filed a Supreme Court amicus brief arguing federal district courts should be able to waive the general rule that the loser on appeal pays the winner’s appellate costs.

The City of San Antonio won in federal district court a class action lawsuit against online travel companies (OTCs) requiring them to collect occupancy...

In Heck v. Humphrey (1994), the Supreme Court held that a plaintiff can’t bring a civil suit for wrongful conviction unless his or her conviction was “favorably terminated.” But what if charges were dropped and the plaintiff was never convicted? In Thompson v. Clark the Supreme Court will decide when a plaintiff who was charged but never prosecuted may bring a malicious...