Greetings, Court fans! The Court released all of its remaining opinions today, leaving us with some real blockbusters. We’ll address the Ten Commandment cases and Grokster (the file-sharing case) now and follow-up shortly with the final three cases and...
Greetings, Court fans! Notwithstanding a plethora of decisions in recent years on both the application of the mandatory minimum sentence under the Armed Career Criminals Act (“ACCA”) and the one year limitation period to file habeas petitions under the...
Greetings, Court fans! The Term so far has been anything but dull . . . . We have a new Chief Justice, a withdrawn nomination, and today, a new nominee to succeed Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Current Third Circuit Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. has been on...
Greetings Court fans! The Court issued four opinions and an order list yesterday. That leaves 12 cases to go, including most of the big cases for this Term. Let’s get right to the opinions. First, in Intel Corp. v. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc....
Greetings, Court Fans! We still owe you two opinions from last week, but in the meantime the Court issued three more opinions today, including the first opinion by Justice Alito and another opinion in favor of everyone’s favorite widow, Anna Nicole Smith....