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With a computer and a modem, anyone can travel the state on the information superhighway, but it helps to have a road map. A complete guide to Texas on-line.

Ensuring Supreme Court justices comply with ethics rules will require an enforcement mechanism, writes Stephen I. Vladeck.

Ensuring Supreme Court justices comply with ethics rules will require an enforcement mechanism, writes Stephen I. Vladeck.

Some have urged the court to adopt a code of ethics following reports that justices received gifts and trips from billionaires.

Football recruiting makes the NCAA see red, but SMU sees orange.

Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law and is also a senior editor of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy; a contributing editor to the Lawfare blog; a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law; a fellow of the Fordham University School of Law Center on National Security; the Supreme Court Fellow for the Constitution Project; and an elected member of...

Stephen Vladecks new book reveals how SCOTUS is secretly undermining the republic

Defendants in business disputes often wish to have their cases heard in federal rather than state court. The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are standardized and may be more streamlined than their state-law counterparts.

Stephen I. Vladeck is the author of The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.

In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken fewer cases on its merits docket. But it has increased the volume of its "shadow docket," where it has traditionally handled procedural...