Supreme Court Update: Michigan v. EPA (14-47) and Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Comm’n (13-1314)

by S Z | Sep 15, 2019

Greetings, Court Fans! The last day of school is always anticlimactic, with finals done and yearbooks already signed. That may have described the atmosphere on First Street yesterday, but make no mistake: The Court ended October Term 2014 term with three decisions...

Supreme Court Update: Glossip v. Gross (15-7955) and Order List

by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019

Greetings, Court Fans! We’re back with our final Update of OT14, covering Glossip v. Gross (15-7955), a doubly divisive death-penalty case, and providing a roundup of the Court’s orders over the last few weeks. (Did you think we’d forgotten about...

Supreme Court Update: Maryland v. Kulbicki (14-848) and Order List

by S Z | Sep 15, 2019

Greetings, Court fans! … und willkommen zurück! Oktober Term 2015 kicks off today with argument in OBB Personenverkehr AG v. Sachs (13-1067), a case which explores the contours of the commercial-activity exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and is an...

Supreme Court Update: Mullenix v. Luna (14-1143) and Order List

by S Z | Sep 15, 2019

Greetings, Court fans! Was it Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr or Jon Bon Jovi who remarked, “The more things change, the more they stay the same”? (They both did!) Over the last few terms, we’ve encountered a few steady themes in the Supreme...

Supreme Court Update: OBB Personenverkehr AG v. Sachs (13-067) and Order List

by S Z | Sep 15, 2019

Greetings, Court fans! If you blinked, you might have missed it, but the Court handed down its first signed opinion of the Term this week in OBB Personenverkehr AG v. Sachs (13-1067), unanimously holding that an Austrian railroad was immune from suit under the Foreign...