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We’re back with our final Update of OT14, covering Glossip v. Gross (15-7955), a doubly divisive death-penalty case, and providing a roundup of the Court’s orders over the last few weeks. (Did you think we’d forgotten about cert grants in the midst of the end-of-term excitement? You were right.)
The deep divisions in the Court on the death penalty were on…
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The last day of school is always anticlimactic, with finals done and yearbooks already signed. That may have described the atmosphere on First Street yesterday, but make no mistake: The Court ended October Term 2014 term with three decisions that would likely have been the highlights of a sleepier term. In this Update, we’ll provide summaries of two of these decisions: Michigan …
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A few hours ago, the gavel banged a close to October Term 2014, after the release of the final three decisions of the term—Glossip v. Gross (14-7955), holding that the use of a particular drug in a three-drug execution cocktail likely does not violate the Eighth Amendment; Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (13-1314), holding that the…
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In a week that saw the Court hold that facial challenges are available under the Fourth Amendment, that disparate-impact claims are available under the Fair Housing Act, and that tax credits are available on Obamacare’s Federal Exchanges, Friday took the progressive cake, when the Court in Obergefell v. Hodges (14-556), made marriage licenses constitutionally available to same-sex couples in all fifty…
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The Supreme Court once again came to the rescue of Obamacare—or as Justice Scalia now calls it, in light of the Court’s second intervention, “SCOTUScare”. This Update will bring you analysis of this morning’s decision in King v. Burwell (14-114), holding 6-3 that, notwithstanding language in the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) suggesting that tax credits are available only to individuals who…
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Raisins, radioactive wrists, Red Roof registries, and reformatory roughhousing were all on the Court’s radar Monday (it’s a very broad radar horizon), as it issued decisions in Horne v. Dep’t of Agriculture (14-275), holding that the seizure of personal property requires just compensation under the Fifth Amendment; Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment (13-720), holding that stare decisis precludes the inventor of…
