by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court Fans! The Nine returned to the bench this week (well, eight of them did, while Justice Ginsburg, recovering from cancer surgery, missed oral arguments for the first time in her quarter-century tenure) and handed down two unanimous opinions, two per...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court Fans! Two more decisions to report this week, including the first 5-4 split of the term, along with a whopping eight cert grants. Last week, we estimated that the Court’s opinion in Schein v. Archer & White Sales (2019) was about its one billionth...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court Fans! The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” was at the forefront this week, as it issued a consequential stay of the order enjoining the Trump Administration’s transgender service ban (over the dissents of the four more liberal justices), but did not...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court Fans! We’re two weeks into October Term 2018 and it’s about time we touched base. It was a rather eventful off-season, with Justice Kennedy’s retirement and Justice Kavanaugh’s elevation, and we’ll have precisely nothing more to say about that. We do,...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court Fans! It’s not every day that a Supreme Court decision gets covered not only in the pages of The New York Times, but also ESPN.com and Sports Illustrated. But Murphy v. NCAA (No. 16-476), which struck down the federal Professional and Amateur...
