WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court is taking a step to address criticism that its inner workings are opaque. The court announced recently that its website will identify and highlight changes to opinions after they are released to the public. ...

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Lawyers still making their way along the learning curve of social media evidence may struggle to find guidance from court opinions. But two recent decisions with different results offer some clues on how to narrowly focus a discovery request to ...

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“… I am pleased the Supreme Court upheld this law. We will continue to move forward with implementing the health exchange that will lower coverage costs for New York’s businesses and help ensure that uninsured New Yorkers have access to ...

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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts sometimes likes to have a little fun when he writes opinions. Now, his writing has earned him an award from the popular quarterly journal “The Green Bag.” As The BLT’s Tony Mauro ...

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As a recent Wall Street Journal article pointed out, judicial orders and opinions aren’t as dry and traditional in their writing or their references as they used to be.

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As the October 2010 term draws nearer to its close, U.S. Supreme Court opinions are getting wordier. At the same time, the justices appear to be parsing those words much more by making frequent uses of dictionaries in their analyses.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A couple of angry dissents aside, the Supreme Court has shown a remarkable degree of consensus in the nearly two dozen opinions issued so far this term. Fifteen of the 23 decisions have been unanimous and four have drawn just one dissenting vote.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The debate over whether the Supreme Court should look to foreign law when interpreting the U.S. Constitution is ultimately irrelevant because justices can read whatever they want when they are formulating their opinions, Justice Stephen Breyer said Wednesday.

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