A recent Fourth Circuit opinion about medical privacy provides a valuable lesson on how stare decisis can guide litigants through case law that is less than clear. In Payne v. Taslimi, which I argued ...
In a biting dissent two years ago, when the Supreme Court overturned a ruling from 1979, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that the decision “can only cause one to wonder which cases the court will ...
Three Florida Democrats spoke at the Planned Parenthood in Kissimmee to address the leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court showing a plan to throw out the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. ‘Our ...
Washington — A draft opinion leaked and published late Monday suggests the Supreme Court may strike down its nearly five-decade-old ruling establishing the constitutional right to an abortion, a move ...
The court cannot return to the same case and change its mind. And the legal doctrine of stare decisis — Latin for “let the decision stand”— means later members of the court are reluctant to ...
The Supreme Court has not heard arguments in a state secrets case in a decade, but this term, the justices will hear two, with the first taking place this morning. The last time the justices faced a ...
In this edition of their Appellate Practice column, Thomas R. Newman and Steven J. Ahmuty Jr. discuss the reasons why the majority in 'Dobbs' concluded that the doctrine of stare decisis did not ...