Yesterday, the Court granted cert in two cases and issued a brief per curiam opinion summarily reversing the 9th Circuit. For those of you keeping score in the contest to issue the first opinion of the Term — and there is a contest — this does not count because it’s not a signed opinion. Of course, if I could definitively identify it as an O’Connor
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Of course, the big news out of the Court today is that they agreed to hear the Pledge of Allegiance case out of the Ninth Circuit (surprise!). They also agreed to hear 7 other cases, so here’s the run down:
1. Littleton Co. v. Z.J. Gifts D-4 LLC (02-1609): A First Amendment case with the following question presented: “Whether the requirement of prompt judicial review…
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Not much to report from yesterday’s order list except that the Court asked the Solicitor General to weigh in on three cases. (As you know, this means that at least someone on the Court is interested in hearing these cases. By asking the SG to brief the issue, they get the views of the United States before they decide whether to take the case.) The…
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Didn’t the summer just fly by? It seems like just yesterday that we were all watching the Court hand down its final opinions from OT 2002 and wondering which Justices, if any, would retire. Well, they’re all back for another Term, and so am I. Welcome to another Term of Supreme Court updates!
For those newcomers to this list, my hope is that the updates…
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