The Eight are Nine again. After over a year of operating short-handed, the Court is finally at full strength, as Justice Neil Gorsuch joined his colleagues on the bench this week to hear arguments for the first time. Meanwhile, we at the Update have felt a bit short-handed ourselves, but we’re back to bring you up to speed on a number of decisions that predate…
Read More Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman (15-1391); Moore v. Texas (15-797; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger (15-1406) and McLane, Inc. v. EEOC (15-1248)

This morning, the Court issued its decision in Moore v. Texas (15-797), an important death-penalty case holding that Texas’s outdated standard for determining whether a death-row inmate is intellectually disabled violates the Eighth Amendment. We’ll provide a more in-depth summary in our next Update, but first we bring you the remaining opinions from last week, covering the educational rights of disabled children, the priority…
Read More Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District (15-827), Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc. (15-866), Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp. (15-549) and Order List

This week, while a potential ninth justice lectured the Senate Judiciary Committee on everything from fly fishing to “mutton busting” (but not on the age-old question of whether one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses would win in a fight), The Eight churned out six opinions lecturing readers on everything from adult diapers to cheerleading uniforms (but not the age-old question of whether you can…