The Eight are Nine again. After over a year of operating short-handed, the Court is finally at full strength, as Justice Neil Gorsuch joined his colleagues on the bench this week to hear arguments for the first time. Meanwhile, we at the Update have felt a bit short-handed ourselves, but we’re back to bring you up to speed on a number of decisions that predate
Read More Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman (15-1391); Moore v. Texas (15-797; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Haeger (15-1406) and McLane, Inc. v. EEOC (15-1248)
Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District (15-827), Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc. (15-866), Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp. (15-549) and Order List
This morning, the Court issued its decision in Moore v. Texas (15-797), an important death-penalty case holding that Texas’s outdated standard for determining whether a death-row inmate is intellectually disabled violates the Eighth Amendment. We’ll provide a more in-depth summary in our next Update, but first we bring you the remaining opinions from last week, covering the educational rights of disabled children, the priority
Read More Endrew F. v. Douglas County School District (15-827), Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc. (15-866), Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corp. (15-549) and Order List
SCA Hygiene Products v. First Quality Baby Products (15-927), NLRB v. Southwest General (15-1251) and Manuel v. City of Joliet (14-9496)
This week, while a potential ninth justice lectured the Senate Judiciary Committee on everything from fly fishing to “mutton busting” (but not on the age-old question of whether one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses would win in a fight), The Eight churned out six opinions lecturing readers on everything from adult diapers to cheerleading uniforms (but not the age-old question of whether you can
Read More SCA Hygiene Products v. First Quality Baby Products (15-927), NLRB v. Southwest General (15-1251) and Manuel v. City of Joliet (14-9496)Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. (16-273), Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado (15-606), and Beckles v. United States (15-8544)
The Court kicked off the week with a flurry of activity in criminal cases, issuing a landmark Sixth Amendment ruling, another decision closing the door on vagueness challenges to the Sentencing Guidelines, a per curiam decision on the standard for disqualification of judges in criminal trials, and several statements regarding cert denials in criminal cases.
We’ll cover all of that below, but first—for those of
Read More Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. (16-273), Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado (15-606), and Beckles v. United States (15-8544)Bethune-Hill v. Va. State Board of Elections (15-680)
We’re back with the lone decision from this week, Bethune-Hill v. Va. State Board of Elections (No. 15-680), one of two racial gerrymandering cases argued on the same day back in December. (Interestingly, the other case, McCrory v. Harris (15-1262), remains undecided, despite raising similar issues.)
Following the 2010 census, the Virginia legislature engaged in redistricting in order to ensure proper numerical apportionment for
Read More Bethune-Hill v. Va. State Board of Elections (15-680)
Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. (14-1538), Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools (15-497), Buck v. Davis (15-8049) and Order List
Last time we hit your inboxes, Barack Obama was President. To call the ensuing month eventful is something of an understatement. We’ve seen a primetime Supreme Court nomination, a flood of litigation challenging hastily conceived Executive Orders, and most recently the rescinding of a Department of Education policy on transgender rights that’s at the heart of a case pending before the Court this term. And
Read More Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. (14-1538), Fry v. Napoleon Community Schools (15-497), Buck v. Davis (15-8049) and Order List