Greetings, Court Fans! The Court had a busy and congenial Monday, as it issued five largely unanimous opinions in a smorgasbord of cases. In the first case, Watson v. Philip Morris Cos. (05-1284), the Court held that private companies cannot claim the benefit of the...
Greetings, Court fans! The Court issued five opinions this week – the minimum necessary to maintain the “decision-a-day” pace needed to get through all outstanding cases by the end of June. And, to be honest, a couple of the decisions barely count as such...
Greetings, Court fans! The Court released all of its remaining opinions today, leaving us with some real blockbusters. We’ll address the Ten Commandment cases and Grokster (the file-sharing case) now and follow-up shortly with the final three cases and...
Greetings, Court fans! Notwithstanding a plethora of decisions in recent years on both the application of the mandatory minimum sentence under the Armed Career Criminals Act (“ACCA”) and the one year limitation period to file habeas petitions under the...
Greetings, Court fans! The Term so far has been anything but dull . . . . We have a new Chief Justice, a withdrawn nomination, and today, a new nominee to succeed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Current Third Circuit Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. has been on...
