However, legal experts believe the Supreme Court would favor same-sex marriage in a landmark decision. The Crimson quotes Harvard Law professor Richard Fallon who forecast five justices would vote to uphold the right to gay marriage.
Date: Jan 24, 2015
Category: U.S.
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Supreme Court lets stand state rulings allowing same-sex marriage
Im astonished, said Richard Fallon, a Harvard law professor who is a student of the court. Neither side of the courts ideological split has enough motive to insist that the issue be taken up now, he believes.
Date: Oct 06, 2014
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Fault lines re-emerge in US Supreme Court at end of term
In politically gridlocked Washington, the justices, particularly Chief Justice John Roberts, could be feeling institutional pressure to come together rather than pull apart, Harvard law professor Richard Fallon said.
This will be the most important case about the scope ofCongresss regulatory power at least since the cases challengingthe constitutionality of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and maybesince the New Deal, said Richard Fallon, a constitutional lawprofessor at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachu
With the Senate and White House in the hands of Democrats, chances are slim that major changes to abortion laws will be enacted into law, said Richard Fallon, a constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School. What abortion opponents may be able to do, however, "is push the envelope a little bit at a time and see how far they can get the courts to go."