Not exactly a cheerful book, to be sure, but I do highly recommend it. The post The Problem With the Supreme Court's 'Shadow Docket' appeared first on Reason.com.

Playing a guessing game with the opinions and reasonings of Supreme Court Justices does a disservice to the rule of law ...

Present or not, insurers doing business with tribal government and businesses cannot escape the jurisdiction of tribal courts, at least within the Ninth Circuit. The Supreme Court of the United ...

The court reached the end of June having issued almost twice as many emergency orders as it did merits opinions. Is this an anomaly, or the start of a new normal?

The July term of Pontotoc County Circuit Court convened Monday (July 21) with 167 criminal cases on the three week criminal docket.

Tulsa and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation agreed to settle a dispute over who has the power to prosecute suspects on tribal land.

Donald Trump threatened to sue over a Wall Street Journal story that linked him to Jeffrey Epstein. A docket appears, but something's off.

And that can take years. Because the Supreme Court is agreeing to hear these cases on its shadow docket, it’s stepping in before the underlying legal question is actually resolved.

Governor Stitt’s brother Keith is asking the United States Supreme Court to weigh in on tribal jurisdiction in a case involving a traffic ticket he got in Tulsa.

Of course, this does not mean that the current court is a liberal one, or that a majority of the justices somehow possess liberal criminal law views. My general point is simply to get readers focused ...