by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! We’re in the last stretch here. Today we bring you J.D.B. v. North Carolina (09-11121), on the Miranda rights of minors; Tapia v. United States (10-5400), on whether courts may consider rehabilitation in imposing a prison sentence (no);...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! Our last Update for the Term will cover Davis v. United States (09-11328), holding that searches conducted in reasonable reliance on binding appellate precedent are not subject to the exclusionary rule even when the precedent is later...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! The 2011 Term, which officially begins next Monday, promises to be a blockbuster. With cases ranging from the Government’s right to use GPS tracking devices on cars without a warrant, to the scope of the ministerial exception to...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! The Court has been busy separating the wheat from the chaff. As is typical this time of year, the Court issued an order declining to hear several hundred cases. It granted cert in only two additional cases and invited the Acting Solicitor...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! The Court continues to add to its docket. Today, the Court granted cert in the following cases: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (10-1491) and Mohamad v. Rajoub (11-88), which are to be argued in tandem. Kiobel asks (1) “Whether the issue...
