Greetings Court fans! Hi everyone! Two opinions today, both rather uncontroversial, and an order list. I’ll begin with the opinions. In Fellers v. United States (02-6320), a unanimous Court (opinion by O’Connor) held that police violated Fellers’...
Greetings, Court fans! The Court issued only one substantive decision this week. In Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez (05-1629), a unanimous Court held that the federal statute that provides for deporting an alien convicted of a “theft offense” also...
Greetings, Court fans! We’re back to summarize the Court’s criminal decisions from this week. The defendants did not fare too well – not only did they lose, the Court declined even to address the questions presented. The first was United States v....
Greetings Court fans! Only two opinions yesterday, but several interesting grants for next Term. I’ll begin with the opinions. First, in Thornton v. United States (03-5165), the Court officially expanded the scope of the car-search-incident-to-arrest exception...
Greetings Court fans! As you must know by now, the Court issued McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (02-1674), the campaign finance case — all 300 pages of it. No, that is not a typo. 300 pages. In fairness, 19 of those pages are the syllabus, and the...
