p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/180652/100x/us_supreme_court_300x.jpg(U.S. Supreme Court)! In the early 1980s, the Supreme Court decided some 150 cases a year, nearly twice the number it annually decides these days. Legal scholars and practitioners...

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/180239/100x/synod_300.jpg(David Bender, chairman of the CEC advisory board, left, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Carter Snead at the Synod on the Family)! The three-week-long Synod on the Family, which...

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/154076/200x/rick_garnett.jpg(Richard W. Garnett)! The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday (Jan. 20) that an Arkansas prison’s beard ban violated a prisoner’s religious liberty. According to "Richard W. Garnett":http://news.nd.edu/for-the-media/nd-experts/faculty/rick-garnett/,...

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/148479/200x/garnett_smith_300.jpg(Richard Garnett, left, and Stephen Smith)! University of Notre Dame law professors "Stephen Smith":http://law.nd.edu/directory/stephen-smith/ and "Richard Garnett":http://law.nd.edu/directory/richard-garnett/ are encouraged that Supreme Court justices seem to endorse arguments they have...

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/110209/jack_gilligan_200.jpg(John Gilligan)! Former Ohio governor John J. Gilligan, professor emeritus of law at the University of Notre Dame, died Monday (Aug. 26) at his home in Cincinnati. He was...

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/108914/roemer_200.jpg(James Roemer)! James A. Roemer, former director of community relations at the University of Notre Dame, died Sunday (Aug. 10) in California. He was 83. A native of South...

p(image-right). !http://newsinfo.nd.edu/assets/71710/snead200.jpg(O)! Whatever else its consequences, today’s Supreme Court’s decision upholding the Affordable Care Act won’t affect the issues raised in the lawsuit recently filed by several religious institutions against...

p(image-right). !http://newsinfo.nd.edu/assets/10590/snead_rel.jpg(O. Carter Snead)! President Barack Obama’s proposed adjustments to the new Health and Human Services rule requiring Catholic institutions, including the University of Notre Dame, to provide health care...

p(image-right). !http://newsinfo.nd.edu/assets/14913/mahony_rel.jpg(Cardinal Roger Mahony)! Cardinal Roger Mahony, archbishop emeritus of Los Angeles, is urgently concerned with the reform of the nation’s immigration policy, and he wants Catholic college and university...