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The Court has been relatively quiet heading into the end of the calendar year. We bring you a per curiam decision with no opinion, a handful of cert grants, a dissent from denial of cert, and two solicitor general invites.
We’ll start with the decision, which came in Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega, S.A. (08–1423), which concerned whether the Copyright Act’s
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We’re back with one opinion from last week, Los Angeles County v. Humphries (09-350), holding that plaintiffs suing municipal entities must show that their injuries were caused by a municipal “policy or custom” in order to obtain prospective relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We also have two new cert grants, and a dissent from the denial of cert to report.
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Hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend. The Court returned today with three additions to its docket and two opinions regarding the denial of cert.
The Court granted cert and consolidated AZ Free Enterprise v. Bennett (10-238) and McComish v. Bennett (10-239), both of which address the constitutionality of Arizona’s public financing laws, which attempt to level the political playing field. Since
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We’re back with the first two decisions (one per curium, one unanimous) of the October 2010 Term. Wilson v. Corcoran (10-91) addresses the requirements for issuing a federal writ of habeas corpus, and Abbot v. United States (09-479) considers the application of 18 U.S.C. § 924(c), which imposes a mandatory minimum sentence for possession or use of a firearm in connection with
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In a week filled with election news and partisan grumbling, it is refreshing to conjure the image of Justices Scalia and Kagan skeet shooting together, a rumor reported in several news outlets in late October. We have no idea if the rumor is true, but find it fascinating nevertheless.
We have a number of cert grants and miscellaneous orders to bring you.
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The Court granted cert in seven more cases last week and another yesterday, covering topics ranging from criminal law, to patent law, to tribal sovereignty.
Yesterday’s grant will provide another bit of insight into the Court’s views on executive power and on whether (and when) policy makers can be subjected to suit under Bivens. After his arrest on a material witness warrant