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We’re back with in-depth coverage of yesterday’s two most noteworthy decisions as well as the Court’s recent orders.
Monday’s featured fight was Big Box vs. Big Class, a/k/a Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes (10-277). Wal-Mart won, in a decision that will send ripples (if not waves) through class action law. In Dukes, three women who claimed to have been
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The Court released four decisions today, including two big ones: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes (10-277), overturning the Ninth Circuit’s decision certifying a class of millions of plaintiffs in a gender discrimination suit against the big box store everyone loves to hate (but nevertheless buys from weekly); and American Electric Power Co., Inc. v. Connecticut (10-174), holding that the Clean
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With a couple dozen decisions left to go, you can expect to continue to hear from us often in the coming weeks. This Update will cover Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (09-1159), regarding the allocation of rights to inventions developed with the help of federal funding; Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Limited Partnership
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Congratulations are in order for new Solicitor General Donald Verrilli. The former Deputy White House Counsel was confirmed by the Senate, 72-16, this past week. News outlets reported that Verrilli was quietly sworn in Thursday afternoon so that he could get to work, with a more formal ceremony to follow.
Now, back to our regularly scheduled program of cases. Today, we bring
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We’re back to bring you Brown v. Plata (09-1233), the Court’s lengthy and highly controversial decision ordering a reduction in California’s prison population; and Fowler v. United States (10-5443), interpreting the federal witness tampering statute.
Justice Kennedy authored the majority opinion in Brown v. Plata (09-1233), where he joined with the liberal wing of the Court to find that
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The decisions are washing ashore in waves now as we make our way into June. This Update wades through: Ashcroft v. al-Kidd (10-98), holding that former Attorney General Ashcroft could not be sued for allegedly instituting a policy to use material witness warrants to preventatively detain terrorism suspects; United States v. Tinklenberg (09-1498), explaining how courts should count time under