As a service to clients and friends of the firm, Ken Heath and Kim Rinehart of the Appellate Practice Group offer the Supreme Court Update, an e-mail service providing short summaries of the Supreme Court’s latest rulings and orders of note. At the suggestion of...
Greetings, Court fans! As I indicated in Part I of the Update, the Court has recently added a number of cases to its docket for the 2009 Term (bringing its total to 40; 38 if you don’t include consolidated cases). Here they are: The consolidated...
Greetings, Court fans! Welcome back for Part III, which will cover three significant decisions: Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc. (08-441), resolving the burden of proof in a “mixed motives” case under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act...
Greetings, Court fans! The Court issued two decisions today and an order list, before going on recess for the summer. Justice Kennedy authored the Court’s 5-4 decision in Ricci v. DeStefano (07-1428), where the Court found in favor of the white and Hispanic...
Greetings, Court fans! The Court issued its final order list yesterday before going on recess for the summer. (Don’t you wish you still had a summer recess? Makes me pine for those good old school days.) The Court added seven more cases to its October 2009...
