by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! We’re back to bring you a few decisions you probably have not been waiting for: Douglas v. Independent Living Center of Southern California, Inc. (09-958), where the Court ducked the question of whether the Supremacy Clause provides a...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! We’re back with three more decisions, which gets us caught up with the Court’s recent published activity. The decisions came in Kurns v. Railroad Friction Products Corp. (10-879), where the Court held that the Locomotive Inspection...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! We’re back with the remaining decisions: NASA v. Nelson (09-530), finding that routine government back-ground checks on contract employees do not violate any constitutionally-protected privacy interest; Chase Bank USA, N.A. v. McCoy...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! Since returning from break, the Court has issued thirteen new decisions (3 this morning), as well as several order lists. We’re a bit backlogged due to Kim’s recent move, but we’re going to catch up quickly! This Update will...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! We’re back with three more decisions. The most newsworthy came in Snyder v. Phelps (09-751), where a nearly unanimous Court found that a grieving father’s tort claims against protesters at his military son’s funeral were barred...