Greetings, Court fans! The Court issued two significant, if complicated, decisions on Tuesday. First, in Hall Street Associates v. Mattel, Inc. (06-989), the Court held 6-3 that parties to an arbitration agreement who seek to enforce an award under the Federal...
Greetings, Court Fans! Today was another six-opinion day at the Court, with the biggest ruling by far coming in Kelo v. City of New London (04-108). In the interest of getting that summary out quickly, this Update covers Kelo and two other decisions handed down...
Greetings Court fans! In case you haven’t heard, the Court handed down the University of Michigan affirmative action cases. They also issued opinions in United States v. American Library Association (constitutionality of mandated software filters on library...
Greetings Court fans! The Court issued two unanimous opinions yesterday and one opinion today. I’ll begin with National Archives and Records Administration v. Favish (02-954), a FOIA case with an interesting factual backdrop. Remember Vince...
Greetings, Court fans! Without further ado, we’ll finish up the three remaining decisions from last week. In Dixon v. United States (05-7053), the Court held 7-2 that, absent statutory language to the contrary, a criminal defendant may be required...
