Nina Totenberg

NPR legal correspondent

Nina Totenberg appears in the following:

Is It Fair To Have To Pay Fees To A Union You Don't Agree With?

Monday, January 11, 2016

At the Supreme Court on Monday, union opponents are seeking to reverse a 1977 decision that allows public employee unions to collect fees from those who don't join the union but are protected by it.

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Animal Rights Group Loses Copyright Suit Over Monkey Selfies

Thursday, January 07, 2016

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a monkey cannot own the copyrights to selfies he took.

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Heated Arguments Fly At Supreme Court Over Race In College Admissions

Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Toward the end of the affirmative action arguments, Justice Antonin Scalia questioned whether the University of Texas' admission of minority students was really beneficial to those students.

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Affirmative Action Fight Returns To The U.S. Supreme Court

Wednesday, December 09, 2015

For the second time, the University of Texas must defend its limited use of race and ethnicity in admissions decisions.

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Supreme Court Hears Arguments Testing 'One Person, One Vote'

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Tuesday's case tested whether state legislative districts should count all persons or only eligible voters when district lines are being drawn.

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When Drawing Districts, Should States Count Each Person Or Each Voter?

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

An elections case before the Supreme Court could dramatically change the way state legislative districts are drawn and could tilt some states in a decidedly more Republican direction.

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As Supreme Court Upholds Death Penalty, Number Of Executions Plummets

Monday, December 07, 2015

The Supreme Court keeps upholding the death penalty, but legal challenges and practical hurdles have made actual executions as rare as deaths by lightning.

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Rejecting Appeal, Supreme Court Again Stays Out Of Gun Policy

Monday, December 07, 2015

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from gun owners who challenged a ban on semi-automatic assault rifles and large-capacity ammunition magazines.

Two justices — Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia — would have heard the case and struck down the ban.

In deciding not to revisit the issue in ...

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Why Has The Death Penalty Grown Increasingly Rare?

Monday, December 07, 2015

Even though the public largely supports it and the Supreme Court has upheld it, just 27 people have been executed this year, almost the same number of fatalities from lightning strikes.

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Government Can Keep Memos Justifying Drone Strikes Secret, Court Rules

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

A federal appeals court decision will allow the Obama administration to maintain the secrecy of internal memos regarding drone attacks against suspected terrorists abroad.

The three judge panel unanimously rejected Freedom of Information Act requests brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and The New York Times.

Last year the ...

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Supreme Court Is Asked To Take Messy Interstate Case On Same-Sex Adoption

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Lawyers for a lesbian mother in Alabama are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a decision by Alabama's highest court refusing to recognize her parental rights under an adoption granted in Georgia.

V.L. and E.L., as they are referred to in court papers, are two women who were in ...

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Supreme Court Won't Take Up Case Over Planned Parenthood Documents

Monday, November 16, 2015

Over the dissent of two justices, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an anti-abortion group's attempt to get more information about a $1 million federal contract awarded to Planned Parenthood for family planning and related health services.

The Department of Health and Human Services awarded the contract to Planned ...

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Supreme Court To Take Up Debate Over Abortion Restrictions

Friday, November 13, 2015

The U.S. Supreme Court is once again entering the debate over abortion. The court said Friday that it will hear arguments later this term testing the constitutionality of a sweeping Texas abortion law that, if upheld, would allow the kind of major abortion restrictions not permitted in more than 40 ...

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Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Texas Abortion Law Case

Friday, November 13, 2015

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a Texas law that requires abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital and requires abortion clinics to hav...

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Supreme Court Weighs Whether The Government Can Freeze A Defendant's Assets

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Sila Luis could not hire a lawyer to defend her in court because her adversaries had succeeded in having her financial assets frozen.

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Supreme Court To Take Up Another Challenge To Obamacare

Friday, November 06, 2015

The U.S. Supreme court is stepping back into the dual controversies of birth control and Obamacare.

The justices said Friday they would hear a challenge brought by faith-based hospitals, schools, and charities that contend the government's opt-out provision for birth-control coverage does not go far enough to accommodate their religious ...

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Supreme Court Weighs 1987 Conviction By All-White Jury

Monday, November 02, 2015

The defense showed the names of the black jurors circled, highlighted in green, labeled with the letter "B." But lawyers for the state of Georgia said there's a reasonable explanation.

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Supreme Court Takes On Racial Discrimination In Jury Selection

Monday, November 02, 2015

Timothy Foster's lawyers argue that black jurors were systematically excluded from the jury at his trial in 1987, while judges at all levels looked the other way for nearly three decades thereafter.

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Notorious RBG: The Supreme Court Justice Turned Cultural Icon

Monday, October 26, 2015

Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a cultural icon about the time she turned 80 and became known as "Notorious RBG" — a most unusual identity for a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Supreme Court Hears Arguments On Resentencing For Juvenile Lifers

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Three years ago, the court struck down mandatory life sentences in cases involving juvenile defendants. Should that ruling be applied retroactively to those sentenced to life long ago?

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