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Tadhg is a Partner in the firm’s Litigation Department, where he focuses his practice on appellate and complex civil litigation. Tadhg has extensive experience handling appeals in state and federal courts throughout the country.

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As we noted a few days ago, the Court issued three new decisions early this week, including in a much-anticipated Second Amendment case (the first such case to reach the Court in a decade). We’re now back to summarize those decisions. There’s a lot to unpack, so we’ll jump right into it.

The marquee decision of the week was in some sense a non-decision…

Read More New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. City of New York (No. 18-280), Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. (No. 18-1150), Maine Community Health Options v. United States, No. 18-1023

We’re back with the three lagging decisions from last week. But first, we’ve got three more decisions to pass on, which were handed down today. In New York State Rifle and Pistol Assn. v. City of New York (No. 18-280), the first Second Amendment case to reach the Court in a decade, a per curiam majority concluded that the petitioners’ challenge to a since-repealed…

Read More Romag Fasteners v. Fossil (No. 18-1233), County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund (No. 18-260), Barton v. Barr (No. 18-725)

It was a busy week at the Court this week, as The Nine released opinions on two separate days, something it usually doesn’t do until June. Unfortunately, given their length and complexity, we’re only able to bring you full summaries of Monday’s cases today: Ramos v. Louisiana (No. 18-5924), holding that the Sixth Amendment requires a unanimous jury verdict to convict a criminal defendant…

Read More Ramos v. Louisiana (No. 18-5924), Atlantic Richfield v. Christian (No. 17-1498), Thryv, Inc. v. Click-to-Call Technologies (No. 18-916)

Two more decisions in argued cases this week, both 8-1 opinions on narrow grounds, though in widely different contexts. But it was the Court’s sharply divided 5-4 decision granting an emergency stay application that garnered the most attention.

In Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee (No. 19A1016), the Court stayed a lower-court order that would have extended the deadline for absentee ballots…

Read More Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee (No. 19A1016), Babb v. Wilkie (No. 18-882), Kansas v. Glover (No. 18-556)

Today, the Court issued a press release postponing oral arguments currently set for April (the last scheduled sitting of OT19). Though the Court left open the door to rescheduling some cases from the March and April sessions before the end of the Term, it seems more likely that most of them will either be rescheduled for OT20 or decided without argument. What remains to be…

Read More Citgo Asphalt Refining Co. v. Frescati Shipping Co. (No. 18-565)

After the avalanche of opinions last week, The Nine gave us a break with just one new decision to report this week. In Kansas v. Garcia (No. 17-834), a five-justice majority upheld the state-law identity-theft convictions of three noncitizens who fraudulently used another person’s Social Security number on their employment authorization forms. Read on for more on that case, as well as three stragglers…

Read More Kansas v. Garcia (no. 17-834), Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee v. Sulyma (no. 18-1116), Shular v. United States (no. 17-6662), Holguin-Hernandez v. United States (no. 18-7739)