Greetings, Court fans! We’re back to summarize the Court’s criminal decisions from this week. The defendants did not fare too well – not only did they lose, the Court declined even to address the questions presented. The first was United States v....
Greetings Court fans! Only two opinions yesterday, but several interesting grants for next Term. I’ll begin with the opinions. First, in Thornton v. United States (03-5165), the Court officially expanded the scope of the car-search-incident-to-arrest exception...
Greetings Court fans! As you must know by now, the Court issued McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (02-1674), the campaign finance case — all 300 pages of it. No, that is not a typo. 300 pages. In fairness, 19 of those pages are the syllabus, and the...
Greetings, Court Fans! The Court came back Monday with three more decisions. We’ll cover two in this Update, then bring you the third after we see what else the Court issues tomorrow. In Brendlin v. California (06-8120), the Court unanimously held...
Greetings, Court fans! Welcome to the last edition of the Supreme Court Update for the October 2006 Term. (We’ll be back with an electronic version of our Term in Review, which provides our take on the highlights of the Term and a handy guide to all the...
