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The October 2010 Term officially ended yesterday, but we have plenty of decisions left to bring you. Our next two cases concern the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”), which imposes a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence for unlawful possession of a firearm by a person who “has three previous convictions . . . for a violent felony or a serious drug offense.” (If…
Read More Sykes v. United States (09-11311) and McNeill v. United States (10-5258)
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We’re back with Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. (No. 10-799), a win for brand name drug makers on their First Amendment right to access pharmacies’ prescription records for marketing purposes; Pliva, Inc. v. Mensing (09-993), a win for generic drug makers on preemption of state failure-to-warn suits, and Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co. (10-313), a…
Read More Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. (10-799), Pliva, Inc. v. Mensing (09-993) and Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co. (10-313)Greetings, Court fans!
We’re slowly digging our way out of the blizzard of recent decisions. This Update will cover: Smith v. Bayer Corp. (09-1205), regarding the preclusive effect of class certification decisions; Turner v. Rogers (10-10), on the right of indigent defendants to court-appointed counsel in civil contempt proceedings that could result in jail time; and DePierre v. United States (09-1533), on…
Read More Smith v. Bayer Corp. (09-1205), Turner v. Rogers (10-10) and DePierre v. United States (09-1533)Greetings, Court fans!
We’re back with in-depth coverage of yesterday’s two most noteworthy decisions as well as the Court’s recent orders.
Monday’s featured fight was Big Box vs. Big Class, a/k/a Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes (10-277). Wal-Mart won, in a decision that will send ripples (if not waves) through class action law. In Dukes, three women who claimed to have been…
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The Court released four decisions today, including two big ones: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes (10-277), overturning the Ninth Circuit’s decision certifying a class of millions of plaintiffs in a gender discrimination suit against the big box store everyone loves to hate (but nevertheless buys from weekly); and American Electric Power Co., Inc. v. Connecticut (10-174), holding that the Clean…
Read More Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan (10-568) and Camreta v. Greene (09-1454)
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With a couple dozen decisions left to go, you can expect to continue to hear from us often in the coming weeks. This Update will cover Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (09-1159), regarding the allocation of rights to inventions developed with the help of federal funding; Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Limited Partnership …
Read More Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. University v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (09-1159), Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Limited Partnership (10-290) and Fox v. Vice (10-114)
