It’s been a busy week at One First Street, with three opinions, a notable concurrence in a cert denial, and a pair of consequential cert grants. Let’s get you caught up to speed.
The big decision of the week was Timbs v. Indiana (No. 17-091), in which a unanimous Court held that the Eighth Amendment’s Excessive Fines Clause applies to the states, albeit with
Read More Timbs v. Indiana (No. 17-091), Dawson v. Staeger (No. 17-419), Moore v. Texas (No. 18-443)The Court is between sittings, so we’ve got no new opinions to report, but there was some significant action on the orders front last night, concerning three of the more divisive issues to come before the Court—abortion, the death penalty, and religion.
On the abortion front, in June Medical Services v. Gee (No 18A774), the four liberal justices and Chief Justice Roberts stayed the
Read More June Medical Services v. Gee (No 18A774), Dunn v. Ray (No. 18A815)The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” was at the forefront this week, as it issued a consequential stay of the order enjoining the Trump Administration’s transgender service ban (over the dissents of the four more liberal justices), but did not issue any order on the Government’s cert petition the DACA appeal, meaning that the Ninth Circuit’s ruling requiring the Administration to keep protections
Read More Helsinn Healthcare v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USAGreetings, Court Fans!
Two more decisions to report this week, including the first 5-4 split of the term, along with a whopping eight cert grants.
Last week, we estimated that the Court’s opinion in Schein v. Archer & White Sales (2019) was about its one billionth decision addressing the scope of arbitration agreements under the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”). Well, make it a billion and
Read More New Prime, Inc. v. Oliveira (No. 17-340), Stokeling v. United States (No. 17-5554)Greetings, Court Fans!
The Nine returned to the bench this week (well, eight of them did, while Justice Ginsburg, recovering from cancer surgery, missed oral arguments for the first time in her quarter-century tenure) and handed down two unanimous opinions, two per curiam summary reversals, and six new cert grants. All in all, a busy week, so let’s get right to it.
They say with
Read More Schein v. Archer & White Sales (No. 17-1272), Culbertson v. Berryhill (No. 17-773), City of Escondido v. Emmons (No. 17-1660), Shoop v. Hill (No. 18-56)There hasn’t been too much activity since our last Update, so we should be able to get you caught up to speed below, with summaries of the second and third decisions of the term, as well as news (or what was once news) of a few recent cert grants and other orders.
Like the first decision of the term, Weyerhaeuser Co. v. United States Fish
Read More Weyerhaeuser Co. v. United States Fish & Wildlife Services (No. 17-71), United States v. Stitt (No. 17-765), Department of Commerce (No. 18-557)