For starters, a substantial percentage (40-50%) of Supreme Court decisions in any term are unanimous. But not all cases are ...

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, in which the other five conservative justices joined. But there werefiery dissents from the three liberals, as expected.

- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes While later decisions have attenuated the force of Buck v Bell, technically, the case remains good law and has never been overturned. Pejorative labels, e.g., ...

Many Americans may have missed this week the passing of Justice David Souter, who retired from the Supreme Court in 2009, after a distinguished 20-year career on the nation’s High Bench, but the ...

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes framed the concept of the “free trade in ideas” in his famous 1919 dissent in Abrams v. United States. This theory of intellectual capitalism — commonly known ...

Last week President Hoover appointed Chief Judge Benjamin Nathan Cardozo of New York’s Court of Appeals to fill the Supreme Court vacancy made by the retirement of Associate Justice Oliver ...

When Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died in 1935, he left a large bequest to the U.S. government. Eventually Congress resolved to use his gift to fund “a history of the Supreme Court of the ...

Justice Sanjiv Khanna takes over as the 51st Chief Justice of India on November 11 for a short tenure of six months till his retirement in May 2025. He is known as a low-profile and strict judge ...

Walz proceeded to quote the line from a 1919 case in which Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said you do not have the right to falsely yell fire in a crowded theater.

— Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 1884. When Holmes wrote those words, he was laying out a simple principle: The American justice system should operate in the open so citizens can see that it ...

The Supreme Court, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said, is a “storm center.” Conflicts over institutional power, individual rights and, most significantly, the meaning of the ...

FIRE also says that the First Amendment amounts to a broad guarantee of “freedom for the thought that we hate,” as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in 1929.