Greetings, Court Fans! And Happy New Year! Yes, most of us kicked off 2017 over a week ago, but The Eight reassembled for the new (calendar) year yesterday, and rang it in with a summary reversal. We’ll cover that decision and a late-breaking stay order in a...
Greetings, Court Fans! For those of you who spent the last six months (since cert was granted in Lightfoot v. Cendant Mortgage Corp. (No. 14-1055)) just dying to know whether the sue-and-be-sued clause in Fannie Mae’s charter grants federal courts jurisdiction...
Greetings, Court Fans! Raisins, radioactive wrists, Red Roof registries, and reformatory roughhousing were all on the Court’s radar Monday (it’s a very broad radar horizon), as it issued decisions in Horne v. Dep’t of Agriculture (14-275), holding...
Greetings, Court Fans! In a week that saw the Court hold that facial challenges are available under the Fourth Amendment, that disparate-impact claims are available under the Fair Housing Act, and that tax credits are available on Obamacare’s Federal Exchanges,...
Greetings, Court Fans! A few hours ago, the gavel banged a close to October Term 2014, after the release of the final three decisions of the term—Glossip v. Gross (14-7955), holding that the use of a particular drug in a three-drug execution cocktail likely does not...
