Greetings, Court Fans! The Court returned today with decisions in two cases. In Schaffer v. Weast (04-698), the Court held that, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the burden of persuasion in a challenge to an individualized education...
Greetings, Court Fans! We’re back with two summaries that we owe you from last week. The first decision, Rockwell International Corp. v. United States (05-1272), involved the “original source” exception to the bar on qui tam claims based on...
Greetings, Court fans! We’re back to catch you up on the three outstanding opinions from last week – all criminal, with the biggie coming in Baze v. Rees (07-5439), a splintered decision (yielding seven separate opinions) upholding Kentucky’s use of...
Greetings, Court fans! We have a few decisions to catch you up on since our last Update, bringing us to a “whopping” 23 opinions for the Term. This sluggish start is consistent with last year’s 22 opinions by this date, but is significantly off the...
Greetings, Court fans! Solidarity on the Court is always nice to see, and this week brought two unanimous decisions. In the first, EC Term of Years Trust v. United States (05-1541), the Court (Souter, J.) held that a third party claiming that its property was...
