Greetings, Court Fans! We hope that you have been enjoying your summer since the end of the October 2004 Term. While the Court has not been active, it certainly has been the object of much attention in light of Justice O’Connor’s retirement —...
Greetings, Court Fans! Here are the rest of the cases from Thursday. The longest opinion of the day came down in the consolidated cases of Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Allapatah Services (04-70) and del Rosario Ortega v. Star-Kist Foods, Inc. (04-79), where the Court...
Greetings, Court Fans! The Court returned today with decisions in two cases. In Schaffer v. Weast (04-698), the Court held that, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the burden of persuasion in a challenge to an individualized education...
Greetings, Court Fans! We’re back with two summaries that we owe you from last week. The first decision, Rockwell International Corp. v. United States (05-1272), involved the “original source” exception to the bar on qui tam claims based on...
Greetings, Court fans! We’re back to catch you up on the three outstanding opinions from last week – all criminal, with the biggie coming in Baze v. Rees (07-5439), a splintered decision (yielding seven separate opinions) upholding Kentucky’s use of...
