Things seem a bit . . . different since our last Update, no? As we round out our second week of remote lawyering (which, for some of us, seems to involve a lot more long division than we’re used to), the Court itself is in a state of social-distance flux. On March 12th, it announced that One First Street would be closed to the
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Madigan v. Levin (12-872) and Order List
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Easy come, easy go. Just a week after hearing oral argument in Madigan v. Levin (12-872), the Court issued a one-line opinion dismissing the writ of cert as improvidently granted – an event foreshadowed during oral argument last week. On the merits, the case addressed a circuit split over the remedies available to government workers alleging age bias – a question…
Order List 10/21/13
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We have just a quick update this week with two new cert grants and one invitation to the SG.
Yesterday, the Court agreed to hear Hall v. Florida (12-10882), an appeal from the Florida Supreme Court which asks “[w]hether the Florida scheme for identifying mentally retarded defendants in capital cases violates Atkins v. Virginia.”
The Court also granted cert in…
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Order List
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The Court granted cert in three new cases this week, including Kiyamba v. Obama (08-1234), where the Court will consider whether the remaining Uighur Guantanamo Bay detainees, whom the government has deemed innocent of any wrongdoing, must be ordered released in the United States if no third-party country will take them (the Uighurs, who are Muslim Chinese, cannot be transferred to…
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