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Elena Kagan (/ ˈ k eɪ ɡ ə n / KAY-guhn; born April 28, 1960) is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and is the fourth woman to serve on the Court. Kagan was born and raised in New York City.
Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday became the first member of the U.S. Supreme Court to call publicly for beefing up its new ethics code by adding a way to enforce it. In her first public remarks ...
The following is a table of law clerks serving the associate justice holding Supreme Court seat 4 (the Court's fourth associate justice seat by the order of precedence of the inaugural associate justices [a]) which was established on September 24, 1789 by the 1st Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789 (1 Stat. 73). [4]
Speaking at an event marking the 50th anniversary of Marshall’s ascension to the high court, now-Justice Elena Kagan and three other former Marshall clerks offered recollections of their year ...
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Ginsburg, joined by Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan Wal-Mart v. Dukes , 564 U.S. 338 (2011), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that a group of roughly 1.5 million women could not be certified as a valid class of plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit for employment discrimination against Walmart .
Justice Elena Kagan responded to criticism of her idea for how the Supreme Court could enforce an ethics code imposed last year after controversies.
On May 20, Diane Wood and Elena Kagan attended a conference on judicial independence at Georgetown University hosted by retired Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. [35] Ultimately, Obama winnowed his list to four individuals, all of them women: Sotomayor, Wood, Kagan, and Napolitano. [36]