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Sotomayor was born in the Bronx, New York City, [4] to Puerto Rican-born parents. Her father died when she was nine, and she was subsequently raised by her mother. Sotomayor graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1976 and received her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1979, where she was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. [4]
Celina Baez Sotomayor, the mother of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, died Sunday in Weston, Florida, at age 94. The cause was complications from cancer, according to an obituary published ...
Sotomayor dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari and application for stay of execution. ... Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson: 594 U.S. ___ (2021) Breyer ...
Sotomayor dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari in a death penalty case. The defendant's attorney had failed to investigate or present any mitigating factors at sentencing, despite the defendant's history of severe physical and emotional abuse as a child.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the senior most liberal on the conservative Supreme Court, told an audience at Harvard University on Friday that she sometimes cries after the court hands down its ...
In an unsparing dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Supreme Court allowed a president to become a “king above the law” in its ruling that limited the scope of criminal charges against ...
Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson , 595 U.S. 30 (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case brought by Texas abortion providers and abortion rights advocates that challenged the constitutionality of the Texas Heartbeat Act , a law that outlaws abortions after six weeks. [ 1 ]
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt , 579 U.S. 582 (2016), was a landmark decision [ 1 ] of the US Supreme Court announced on June 27, 2016. The Court ruled 5–3 that Texas cannot place restrictions on the delivery of abortion services that create an undue burden for women seeking an abortion.