Greetings, Court Fans! The Court issued three opinions today, plus one cert grant. First, the headline-grabbing case of the day, Arthur Andersen LLP v. United States (04-368), in which the Court unanimously set aside Andersen’s conviction for...
Greetings, Court fans! The Court issued only one opinion yesterday, unanimously reversing a Ninth Circuit decision that held that a trademark defendant asserting the affirmative defense of “fair use” has the burden of proving that its actions are not...
Greetings, Court fans! We’re following up on Tuesday’s Update with the two Batson cases. As a quick refresher, in Batson the Court created a three-part test for reviewing a claim that the use of peremptory strikes in jury selection was...
Greetings Court fans! The Court issued an order list today granting cert in two cases: 1. Pasquantino v. United States (03-725): This case is about the operation of the federal wire fraud statute (18 USC 1343) in the context of an allegedly fraudulent...
Greetings, Court fans! Lots of action today, in what was probably the last opinion day before 2005. The Court issued five opinions, on top of the four cert grants from last Friday. To avoid producing a totally unmanageable e-mail, we’ll split the rulings into...
