Greetings, Court Fans! The Court is on recess again (until February 20) but before departing it issued three new decisions. The lead case was another example of the carnage that the Court hath wrought in its recent criminal sentencing jurisprudence. If that...
Greetings Court fans! While we were all out eating turkey, the Court was busy, granting cert in 6 cases and issuing 2 opinions. Here’s the rundown: Both opinions are unanimous reversals of the 9th Circuit. The first, United States v. Banks (02-473) is a Fourth...
Greetings Court fans! We’re in the homestretch of the Term, and so unsurprisingly, the Court issued five opinions on Monday. They still have 32 opinions outstanding, though, so they have some work to do before the end of June. For those of you keeping score,...
Greetings, Court Fans! We’re back with a short Update based on the Court’s order list from Monday. There were no new grants from the Court’s “long conference” of all the cases that piled up over the summer. Instead, the Court...
Greetings Court fans! Nothing of interest on the order list today, but three separate dissents from denials of cert. The first two dissents are in Torres v. Mullin (03-5781). In July 1993, Oklahoma arrested Torres, a Mexican national, and charged him with murder. In...
