In a 6-to-3 decision that should have been slam-bang unanimous, the Supreme Court ruled today in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson that a city does not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel ...

Little has been known about how the Supreme Court standards and the 1996 law shaped outcomes for cases alleging Eighth ...

The Supreme Court turned away one gun rights case on Monday as it gets ready to decide if it will hear a Minnesota case on a ...

For the most part, cases that are filed in state court proceed linearly through the state trial courts, appellate courts and Supreme Court. Likewise, federal cases are heard by a federal trial judge, ...

We analyzed nearly 1,500 cases to obtain data on prisoner litigation. We found that constitutional protections have been dramatically weakened. In the 1980s and 1990s, a series of Supreme Court ...