We hope those of you on the East Coast made it through Hurricane Sandy without too much damage or inconvenience. We now have a belated Halloween treat for you: more cases on the docket concerning election law, bankruptcy, tax, and habeas proceedings, and an SG invite on a Fair Housing Act question.
The Court has granted cert in the following cases:
Arizona v. Inter Tribal
Read More Order Lists 10/15/12 and 10/29/12
It is that time of the year again – time for fall leaves, hot apple cider, pumpkins, and lots of cert grants. Today’s Update has two biggies for the patent lawyers out there and something for virtually everyone else.
Bowman v. Monsanto Co. (11-796), deals with the patent exhaustion doctrine, asking “[w]hether the Federal Circuit erred by (1) refusing to find patent exhaustion in
Read More Order List 10/5/12
It seems like only yesterday that we were parsing the Court’s Affordable Care Act decision together. We hope you’ve had a restful summer and are ready for another exciting Term. The Term officially kicked off this past week, but the Justices resumed adding to their docket a few weeks ago.
First, let’s tell you about Tennant v. Jefferson County Commission (11-1184), a per curiam
Read More Tennant v. Jefferson County Commission (11-1184) and Order List
Today we bring you our last Update of the October 2011 Term. As always, the end is bittersweet, but we look forward to a 2012 Term likely to be filled with hot-button social issues, such as affirmative action and same-sex marriage. This last hurrah covers: Knox v. Service Employees Int’l Union, Local 1000 (10-1121), finding that public employee unions cannot impose special assessments for
Read More Knox v. Service Employees Int’l Union, Local 1000 (10-1121), FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. (10-1293), and American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Bullock (11-1179)
In this Update, we bring you Williams v. Illinois (10-8505), the latest in a series of skirmishes between the Justices on the admissibility of crime lab reports under the Confrontation Clause, plus a long list of cert grants to whet your appetite for next Term.
Williams v. Illinois (10-8505) engendered a particularly rancorous 4-1-4 split among the Justices. Just a few years ago, in
Read More Williams v. Illinois (10-8505) and Order List
This Update addresses United States v. Alvarez (11-210), striking down the Stolen Valor Act as prohibiting too much speech under the First Amendment, and Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter (11-551), finding that the federal government must honor certain contractual obligations to Indian Tribes, even where those obligations are subject to the availability of appropriations.
United States v. Alvarez (11-210) limited Congress’s ability to
Read More United States v. Alvarez (11-210) and Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter (11-551)