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Before officially recessing for two weeks, the Court surprised us with two more opinions. We’ll try to be brief . . . .
In Rousey v. Jacoway, No. 03-1407, a unanimous Court (Thomas, J.) held that IRA assets may be exempted from a bankruptcy estate under 11 U.S.C. § 522(d)(10)(E). The Rouseys declared bankruptcy several years after depositing distributions from
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The Court issued 5 opinions on Thursday, leaving 7 to be issued this coming week. As you probably know by now, they issued their decision in the Cheney energy task force case, but they also issued a major Sixth Amendment opinion that impacts thousands upon thousands of criminal prosecutions across the country. I’ll begin there.
The decision is called Blakely v.
Read More Blakely v. Washington (02-1632), Schriro v. Summerlin (03-526), Beard v. Banks (02-1603)
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There were two opinions yesterday, and one more today (all unanimous!), but what everyone’s really talking about is yesterday’s oral argument in Marshall v. Marshall, concerning the scope of the “probate exception” to federal jurisdiction. But it’s not that scintillating topic that’s making the news – it’s that Vicki Lynn Marshall (a/k/a Anna Nicole Smith) is a former Playboy Playmate/”reality” TV
Read More Illinois Tool Works Inc. v. Independent Ink, Inc. (04-1329), Texaco, Inc. v. Dagher (04-805), Shell Oil Co. v. Dagher (04-814) and Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc. ("NOW III") (04-1244)
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Still no decisions from the Court, though we do have some items to report from Friday’s and Monday’s order lists. The big news this week, however, is that tomorrow the Court will hear arguments in Gonzales v. Carhart (05-380) and Gonzales v. Planned Parenthood (05-1382), in which it will consider the constitutionality of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003. The
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