Greetings, Court fans! After a week-long hiatus, the Court issued another order list Monday, adding three more cases to its 2009 docket. For labor lawyers, New Process Steel, L.P. v NLRB (08-1457), will be the case to watch. The issue: “Does the...
Greetings, Court fans! The Court issued a per curiam opinion this week, Bobby v. Van Hook (09-144), where it addressed the “ineffective assistance of counsel at the sentencing phase” defense. Van Hook was convicted for murder in Ohio state court,...
Greetings, Court fans! The Court issued another per curiam decision this week, as well as an order list. The decision came in Wong v. Belmontes (08-1263), a death penalty case, making its second trip to the Court. Belmontes killed McConnell by striking her on...
Greetings, Court fans! The Court left us with a handful of interesting tidbits last week: a per curiam decision in Porter v. McCollum (08-10537), where the Court overturned a death sentence based on counsel’s failure to adduce sufficient mitigating...
Greetings, Court fans! The Term has begun in earnest, with the first four signed opinions released yesterday. They are an odd bunch, with two of the four failing to answer the questions presented. I’ll begin with those that did. The newcomer,...
