Learn how stare decisis influences court decisions by requiring adherence to prior rulings. Understand this legal doctrine ...

I saw this post at the "Re's Judicata" blog, written by Prof. Richard Re (University of Virginia), and found it very interesting; I asked Prof. Re whether I could repost it, and he graciously agreed: ...

In a biting dissent two years ago, when the Supreme Court overturned a ruling from 1979, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote that the decision “can only cause one to wonder which cases the court will ...

During oral arguments in Dobbs, Chief Justice Roberts asked a question about the relationship between stare decisis and originalism that I hadn't considered. CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: On stare decisis, I ...

(Reuters) - Is the U.S. Supreme Court’s momentous ruling on Friday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, opens new tab the beginning of the end of deference to established precedent? Sign ...

The Supreme Court has not heard arguments in a state secrets case in a decade, but this term, the justices will hear two, with the first taking place this morning. The last time the justices faced a ...

Washington — A draft opinion leaked and published late Monday suggests the Supreme Court may strike down its nearly five-decade-old ruling establishing the constitutional right to an abortion, a move ...

(WASHINGTON) -- In thousands of rulings over its storied history, the U.S. Supreme Court has broken with stare decisis, the doctrine of respecting prior decisions, just 145 times in cases requiring ...