Greetings Court fans! The Court issued 5 opinions on Thursday, leaving 7 to be issued this coming week. As you probably know by now, they issued their decision in the Cheney energy task force case, but they also issued a major Sixth Amendment opinion that...
Greetings, Court Fans! This Term the race to author the first opinion (and historically it has been a race, with former Justice O’Connor always vying for the win) turned into a short sprint, as the Chief took the crown last week with his five-Justice majority in...
Greetings, Court fans! There were two opinions yesterday, and one more today (all unanimous!), but what everyone’s really talking about is yesterday’s oral argument in Marshall v. Marshall, concerning the scope of the “probate exception”...
Greetings, Court Fans! The big news of the week was the Court’s consideration of District of Columbia v. Heller, in which it appears we may get some sort of ruling blessing an individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment – though we don’t...
Greetings, Court Fans! Still no decisions from the Court, though we do have some items to report from Friday’s and Monday’s order lists. The big news this week, however, is that tomorrow the Court will hear arguments in Gonzales v. Carhart (05-380)...
