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...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! The Court issued its first decision this week, a per curiam opinion in the habeas case Cavazos v. Smith (10-1115). A sad case from any perspective, it features the collision of the Court’s strict standards for habeas review, the...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! The Court is in the thick of arguments and has been clearing out what it apparently believes are some of the “easy” cases. The Court issued two per curiam decisions Monday and released the first signed opinion of the Term on Tuesday!...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court fans! Unless you were assiduously avoiding all forms of media yesterday, you likely heard that the Court has agreed to hear a series of cases challenging the health care law, a.k.a. the Affordable Care Act. The Court structured the cert grants in its...
