Greetings Court fans! A smattering of miscellaneous items tonight, all from Court actions on Monday: cert granted in two tax cases, two opinions generated by a cert denial, and the release of revisions to the criminal procedure and bankruptcy rules. Of course,...
Greetings, Court fans! In today’s order list, the Court granted cert in five cases — we’ll summarize them quickly since we expect opinions to be released Tuesday and Wednesday. Domino’s Pizza, Inc. v. McDonald, No. 04-593,...
Greetings, Court fans! The Court has been busy . . . on top of welcoming Justice Alito to the Court for his first oral arguments, the Court issued nine opinions and an order list in the last two days. For your sanity and ours, we’ll break up this barrage...
Greetings Court fans! Hi everyone! Two opinions today, both rather uncontroversial, and an order list. I’ll begin with the opinions. In Fellers v. United States (02-6320), a unanimous Court (opinion by O’Connor) held that police violated Fellers’...
Greetings, Court fans! The Court issued only one substantive decision this week. In Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez (05-1629), a unanimous Court held that the federal statute that provides for deporting an alien convicted of a “theft offense” also...