This first post in The Worst Case blog focuses on the skills, resources, and techniques needed to properly perform a worst-case circuit analysis and some of the reasons why worst-case circuit analysis ...

When a court is deciding whether a police officer or prison guard is immune from a civil lawsuit, does agreement among circuits that certain police conduct is unconstitutional carry any weight? The ...

An analysis of 143 Rule 23(f) petitions at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reveals a "striking" divergence in grant rates for petitions filed by plaintiffs and those filed by ...

Today the Supreme Court decided Jennings v. Rodriguez, a class-action challenge to provisions of the immigration laws allowing for immigrant detention. After hearing oral argument in the case last ...