Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in a New Mexico case involving a photography business that refused to take pictures at a same-sex commitment ceremony. This act of discrimination, according to the state human rights commission, ran afoul of the New Mexico public accommodations law. The couple who owned the photography company claimed that a legal requirement to serve same-sex customers in this context infringed their First Amendment rights. Their argument, in essence, was that in certain circumstances they had a right to discriminate.
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Weekly Roundup – April 9, 2014
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What does the campaign finance McCutcheon decision actually mean? Professor Sanford Greenberg of Chicago-Kent College of Law explains
Listen to oral arguments from McCutcheon on Oyez
Goldberg’s swing and miss – ISCOTUS Director Chris Schmidt continues his Drama in the Court series with a former Justice’s embarrassing return to the Court in Flood v. Kuhn
Baseball and the Supreme Court: Remembering Flood v. Kuhn
To celebrate the opening of a new baseball season, let’s look back to 1972 when baseball had its day (its third day, actually) in the Supreme Court.
Several factors made Flood v. Kuhn such a memorable moment in Supreme Court history. This was a legal challenge to the national pastime, after all, being pursued by one of the game’s star players. It resulted in one of the strangest opinions ever written by a Supreme Court justice, with Justice Blackmun beginning his opinion for the Court with a gushy, overwrought history of the game (including his bizarre listing of “the many names, celebrated for one reason or another, that have sparked the diamond and its environs and that have provided tinder for recaptured thrills”). The case also featured a famously bad oral argument.
McCutcheon v. FEC: Behind the Decision
On April 2, 2014, the Supreme Court decided McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, ruling that aggregate limits on campaign contributions were unconstitutional. Professor Sanford Greenberg of IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law explains the facts of the decision.
Weekly Roundup – April 3, 2014
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Learn the facts behind the McCutcheon case from Professor Carolyn Shapiro
Viewpoint bias or safety bias? The High Court heard argument on a case against Secret Service agents from anti-Bush protesters
Transcripts and audio for oral argument in the Hobby Lobby case are available on Oyez