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A smattering of miscellaneous items tonight, all from Court actions on Monday: cert granted in two tax cases, two opinions generated by a cert denial, and the release of revisions to the criminal procedure and bankruptcy rules. Of course, in much more interesting news, the Court is hearing some great arguments this week — today they heard the Cheney-energy-policy-task-force case, and tomorrow

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In today’s order list, the Court granted cert in five cases — we’ll summarize them quickly since we expect opinions to be released Tuesday and Wednesday.

Domino’s Pizza, Inc. v. McDonald, No. 04-593, presents the following question: “In the absence of a contractual relationship with the defendant, are allegations of personal injuries alone sufficient to confer standing on the plaintiff…
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The Court has been busy . . . on top of welcoming Justice Alito to the Court for his first oral arguments, the Court issued nine opinions and an order list in the last two days. For your sanity and ours, we’ll break up this barrage and give you five opinions today and four more tomorrow. The biggest news items, however, might…
Read More Gonzalez v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal [“UDV””] (04-1084)


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Hi everyone! Two opinions today, both rather uncontroversial, and an order list. I’ll begin with the opinions.

In Fellers v. United States (02-6320), a unanimous Court (opinion by O’Connor) held that police violated Fellers’ Sixth Amendment rights when they “deliberately elicited” statements from him outside the presence of counsel after he was indicted. After a grand jury indicted Fellers on drug charges…

Read More Fellers v. United States (02-6320), Lamie v. United States Trustee (02-693) and order list

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The Court issued only one substantive decision this week. In Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez (05-1629), a unanimous Court held that the federal statute that provides for deporting an alien convicted of a “theft offense” also applies to aliens convicted of aiding and abetting theft. Applying a longstanding rule of construction from Taylor v. United States, the Court held that Congress intended

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We’re back to summarize the Court’s criminal decisions from this week. The defendants did not fare too well – not only did they lose, the Court declined even to address the questions presented.
The first was United States v. Resendiz-Ponce (05-998), which concerned a Mexican national’s conviction for illegally attempting to reenter the United States. The Ninth Circuit set aside the

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Read More United States v. Resendiz-Ponce (05-998), Burton v. Stewart (05-9222)