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...
Greetings, Court Fans! While most of the Courtward attention this week was focused on oral arguments in Evenwel v. Abbott (14-940) and Fisher v. UT Austin (14-981), concerning “one person one vote” and affirmative action in college admissions,...
Greetings, Court Fans! We’re back with the first contested decision of the term (as well as a very-much uncontested one). First, in DIRECTV, Inc. v. Imburgia (14-462), the Court addressed for the third time in five years the latest fad in Federal Arbitration Act...
Greetings, Court Fans! … and Happy New Year! Judging by the votes in its first two decisions of (calendar year) 2016—an 8-1 decision striking down Florida’s capital sentencing regime and 9-0 decision addressing filing fees under the Prison Litigation Reform...
Greetings, Court fans! Wiggin and Dana just opened a a shiny new office Washington, D.C., but it seems our arrival has been eclipsed by that of another force of nature in the nation’s capital. Perhaps anxious to skip town before it’s buried, the Justices...
