Post Supreme Court reporter Joan Biskupic. (The Post)

• May 19	Farewell to Joan Biskupic and "Holding Court." Supreme Court on television; Clinton judicial appointments; releasing opinions; Violence Against Women Act case; Boy Scout case; writers on the court; changes in the court and the media; school admissions case; reporters with and without law degrees; Justice Scalia; the Kozinski-Lazarus feud; court secrecy; Ed Walsh on the Supreme Court beat; grandparents' rights
• May 10	How the Supreme Court works; appeals courts and precedent; reporting on opinions; precedential value of split decisions; separation of church and state; how cases end up at the court; what the justices wear under their robes; going to hear oral argument and taking court tours; the Supreme Court's new Web site; justices' salaries; Microsoft anti-trust case; the grouchiest justice; the nicest justice; the duties of the chief justice; "Biskupic Impact"
• May 5	Boy Scouts case; Elian Gonzalez; state supreme court decisions; ex-post facto case; athletes on the court; "partial-birth" abortion; Joan's leaving us for USA Today; minority clerks at the court; justices' papers
• April 28	Gay Boy Scouts case; "partial birth" abortion case; Happy Birthday Justice Stevens; "blanket primary" case; racketeering case; the Supreme Court press corps; disbarrment from the Supreme Court bar; A-2 or A-3?
• April 21	Miranda rights; Boy Scouts case; Elian Gonzalez; police tactics; expectation of privacy; drug searches; covering the court; Dickenson case; trademarks and patents; ADA case; Supreme Court Web site; age discrimination
• April 14	Miranda case; Boy Scouts case; "partial birth" abortion; age discrimination case; Supreme Court Web site; Elian Gonzalez; New Hampshire Supreme Court controversy; Judicial Watch; veterans' cases
• April 7	"Partial birth abortion" case; Miranda case; school prayer; right to privacy; Violence Against Women Act; Emerson case (5th Circuit) and gun rights; nude dancing; FDA tobacco decision; water rights; precedent.
• March 31	Texas school prayer case; student fees case; Americans with Disabilities Act; Second Amendment; Supreme Court nominees; D.C. voting rights; FDA regulation of tobacco; nude dancing ruling; judicial confirmations; Linda Tripp case
• March 24	Special guest Richard Carelli, Supreme Court reporter for the Associated Press; Supreme Court press corps; Second Amendment; reporting on denial of cert; same-sex marriages; student fees case; tobacco case; possible nominees to the court; ideology and strict constructionist views of the Constitution
• March 17	Possible judicial nominees from Vice President Gore and Gov. Bush; the hold on Clinton judicial nominations; speculation aobut Justice Scalia; the possibility of a Hispanic nominee; Judge Frank Easterbrook; the lasting impression of presidents on the judiciary; gay marriage in Vermont; criminal prosecution of a sitting president
• March 10	Religion and the law; police stops and searches; Hawaii voting rights case; non-mainstream religions and First Amendment cases; secular government and holidays; Tarver death penalty case and habeas granted with four votes; Texas school prayer/football game case; Ten Commandments in the courtroom; oil tanker ruling
• March 3	ADA cases settled; Justice Breyer and tha NEA's annual reading day; Williams v. Taylor; oral arguments in police power cases; Abu-Jamal protests; Scalia for President?; drug search cases; decisions and orders lists; Alabama death penalty case; Finn case and the Virginia Supreme Court
• Feb. 25	"Closed Chambers"; Hawaii voting rights case; HMOs and patients' rights; drug roadblock case; grandparent visitation; appointing chief justices; Roe v. Wade; Miranda case
• Feb. 17	Suing HMOs under federal employee-benefits law; "Closed Chambers"; search and seizure cases; police searches of luggage and privacy rights; Miranda law; comp time and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act; retirements; Rehnquist court's legacy
• Feb. 11	Politics and the court; presidential appointments; the Supreme Court press corps; possible resignations; the judicial appointment process; possible nominees to the court; 11th Amendment rulings
• Feb. 4	Abortion; judicial nominations; presidential candidates' judicial "litmus tests"; federal minimum wage case; fleeing suspects; choosing a chief justice; partial birth abortion case
• Jan. 28	Campaign donations; State of the Union; age discrimination; Violence Against Women Act; future appointments; dealth penalty
• Jan. 21	Age discrimination; privacy protection; opinion writing; the Fourteenth Amendment; future appointments; gay-rights litigation
• Jan. 14	Grandparents' rights; preliminary decisions; police searches and flight; Miranda case; justices' oaths of office; Violence Against Women Act; discrimination rulings
• Jan. 7	Customs of the court; Violence Against Women Act; visiting the court; states' rights; vouchers; protests; late-term abortion; cert pool
• Dec. 16	Miranda principles; Miranda case; driver's license information; Microsoft case; Justice Ginsburg; dress codes at the court.
• Dec. 10	Miranda principles; Miranda case; FDA tobacco case; swing votes on the court; Microsoft case; police records; airbag case; Cuban refugee.
• Dec. 3	FDA-tobacco case; whistleblower provisions of the false claims act; peremptory challenges in jury selection; Justice Stevens blocking late-term abortion bans; aid to parochial schools.
• Nov. 19	Gay rights; laws governing discrimination against lesbians and gays; same-sex marriage; special treatment v. equal treatment; school prayer case.
• Nov. 12	First Amendment; student activity fees; long prison sentences; Driver's Privacy Protection Act; oral arguments in Reno v. Condon and Southworth; nude dancing; granting cert; gay families
• Nov. 5	"Flight-frisk" cases; Justice Thomas; Miranda rule; workplace shootings and the 2nd Amendment; gay rights and discrimination against gays
• Oct. 29	Police searches; "partial birth" abortion bans; whether death by electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment.
• Oct. 22	Oral arguments at the Supreme Court: lawyer preparations, justices' questioning; the Supreme Court bar; search warrants at murder scenes; judges and juries; Violence Against Women Act; nude dancing
• Oct. 15	Maine voucher case; Clean Water Act; age discrimination; 11th Amendment; police searches; Hubbell case; Nichols appeal; church-state issues; states' rights; nude dancing; 2nd Amendment
• Oct. 8	The rejection of Judge Ronnie White; campaign finance; Miranda rights; Justice Ginsburg; affirmative action; patients' rights and HMOs
• Oct. 1	The first Monday in Oct.; school prayer; grandparents' rights; Violence Against Women Act; HMOs; Justice Ginsburg
• Sept. 24	Campaign finance; free speech; Justice Ginsburg's health; FDA tobacco case; federal tobacco lawsuit
• Sept. 17	The 1999-2000 term and hot legal topics; Cyberspace law; Honda airbags liability case; tobacco regulation; campaign finance law; conflict of interest for judges
• Sept. 10	How cases are chosen for the court term; the "cert pool"; buzzwords in briefs; hot issues in the 1999-2000 term; minority clerks; covering the court
• Sept. 3	Jury activism; jury secrecy rules; product liability cases on "bad" industries; how grand juries work; The Post's jury study
• Aug. 27	Round Two on guns and the Second Amendment; gay rights; and religious freedom
• Aug. 20	Gay rights; the New Jersey Boy Scouts case; gay marriage in Vermont; the Defense of Marriage Act; anti-discrimination laws; gay adoption
• Aug. 13	Everything you ever wanted to know about how the Supreme Court works: the justices, the clerks, the decision-making process and who gets along with whom
• July 29	Religious freedom and the separation of church and state; Religious Liberty Protection Act; school prayer; posting the Ten Commandments in schools
• July 23	High-dollar jury awards in product liability lawsuits; the $4.9 billion award in the GM case; rationale behind large punitive awards; jury instructions; Y2K liability legislation
• July 16	The Second Amendment and the courts; gun control; gun laws; defining "militias" and the right to bear arms
• July 9	Supreme Court case load; Americans With Disabilities Act; tobacco lawsuits; court voting blocs; Second Amendment; diversity among law clerks; casino ads
• July 2	Judicial dissents; lawsuits against gun manufacturers; court voting blocs; judicial appointments; independent counsel law; states' rights rulings; oral arguments
• June 25	Americans with Disabilities Act; an ongoing Louisiana voting rights case; conservative and liberal factions on the court; states' rights; the 1999-2000 term; retirement watch
• June 18	The Warren Court; Ten Commandments; police power; reporter ride-alongs; legal Web sites; media coverage of the court