Weekly Roundup – June 5, 2015

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On Monday, Oyez provided live tweet coverage of the Court’s opinion announcements, featuring reporting from Kimberly Robinson of Bloomberg BNA and background information by several law professors. Among the cases the Court decided were EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch (a religious freedom claim by a Muslim job applicant who was rejected after wearing a headscarf to her job interview) and Elonis v. US (involving threats and free speech on social media).

ISCOTUS director Chris Schmidt unpacks the decision in EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch.

First Amendment scholar Steven Heyman looks at Monday’s other major decision in Elonis—while the Court held in Elonis’s favor on the question of the appropriate standard for identifying a “true threat,” it declined to make a sweeping  First Amendment pronouncement on the issue.

At CNN, Jeffrey Toobin argues that the Court showed a libertarian bent in the EEOC and Elonis decisions.

Also on Monday, the Court blocked an Arizona law denying bail to undocumented immigrants charged with felonies.

In a new study tracking the “celebrity justices” trend, law professor Richard L. Hasen ranks Justice Sonia Sotomayor as currently first on the Supreme Court “celebrity index.”

The ABA Journal looks at the recent trend of Court Terms ending with major decisions.

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