In San Remo Hotel, L.P. v. City & County of San Francisco (04-340), the Court unanimously affirmed a Ninth Circuit decision (shocking, but true) dismissing San Remo’s Fifth Amendment takings case because of issue preclusion due to prior California court...
Greetings, Court Fans! We’ve gotten the big cases out of the way – Hamdan and Perry – but we still owe you summaries of several other decisions from the end of the Term. Since the last few updates were unbelievably long, we’ve split the remainder...
Greetings Court fans! Yesterday, the Court granted cert in two cases and issued a brief per curiam opinion summarily reversing the 9th Circuit. For those of you keeping score in the contest to issue the first opinion of the Term — and there is a contest...
Greetings, Court fans! We have lots of news to report, including five decisions released last week, more cert grants, and the details on Oregon v. Ice (07-901), and Herring v. United States (07-513), which were discussed briefly in our last Update. We’ll break...
Greetings, Court Fans! We have only one decision to report this holiday week: Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (05-1074). The case, which divided the Court 5-4, addresses when the clock starts running on a Title VII employment discrimination claim based on...
