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Greetings, Court Fans!
The Court is on recess again (until February 20) but before departing it issued three new decisions. The lead case was another example of the carnage that the Court hath wrought in its recent criminal sentencing jurisprudence. If that doesn’t get your juices flowing, you can skip ahead for cases on the Prison Litigation Reform Act and removal jurisdiction under the Westfall

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Read More Cunningham v. California (05-6551), Osborn v. Haley (05-593), Jones v. Bock (05-7058) and order list


Greetings Court fans!
We’re in the homestretch of the Term, and so unsurprisingly, the Court issued five opinions on Monday. They still have 32 opinions outstanding, though, so they have some work to do before the end of June. For those of you keeping score, after Monday, the Chief is in the lead with 7 majority opinions. Kennedy, Thomas and Breyer are tied for last

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Read More Tennessee v. Lane (02-1667), Sabri v. United States (03-44), Grupo Dataflux v. Atlas Global Group, L.P. (02-1689), Till v. SCS Credit Corp. (02-1016), Tennessee Student Assistance Corp. v. Hood (02-1606) and Ward v. South Carolina (03-1304)

Greetings, Court Fans!
We’re back with a short Update based on the Court’s order list from Monday. There were no new grants from the Court’s “long conference” of all the cases that piled up over the summer. Instead, the Court denied review in some 1800 cases and issued various orders in other pending cases. Among those orders were two invitations to the Solicitor General (“SG”)

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Greeting Court fans!

 

As promised, the four remaining opinions from earlier this week. I’ll do my best to be brief.

First, let’s fly through Olympic Airways v. Husain (02-1348). In this case, the Court construed Article 17 of the Warsaw Convention to affirm a judgment finding Olympic Airways liable for Dr. Hanson’s death on one of its planes. When Hanson, an asthmatic with a severe…

Read More Olympic Airways v. Husain (02-1348), Doe v. Chao (02-1377), General Dynamics Land Systems v. Cline (02-1080) and Groh v. Ramirez (02-811)


Greetings Court fans!

 

Only two opinions this week. I would have sent this email out last night, but I couldn’t stay awake through the ERISA opinion.

To avoid falling asleep again tonight, I’ll begin with the ERISA case, Raymond B. Yates, M.D., P.C. Profit Sharing Plan v. Hendon (02-458). The facts of this case aren’t that interesting. All you need to know is that Yates…

Read More Raymond B. Yates, M.D., P.C. Profit Sharing Plan v. Hendon (02-458) and Baldwin v. Reese (02-964)


Greetings, Court fans!

After the long winter recess, the Court has reopened for business, with nine cert grants on Friday and one summary disposition today. Given the numbers, and the likelihood that we’ll see some opinions tomorrow, we’ll keep our synopses short.

The most newsworthy of the grants is Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States, No. 04-368. The Court will consider whether Andersen’s …

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