Greetings Court fans! Not much news to report. The Court granted cert in 2 cases, thus (according to my latest count), filling their calendar for this Term. Any cases granted after today will be heard in October Term 2003. The Court will sit on Monday to hand down an...
Greetings, Court Fans! Warning: This update will be a big one. Today, in a death penalty case, the Court issued its first 5-4 opinion of the Term (and of the new Chief’s tenure), on top of three opinions from yesterday dealing with heavy-duty...
Greetings, Court fans! Yesterday, the Court released its first non-per curiam decisions of the Term, and the winners of the race to publish first are (drum roll, please) . . . Justices Stevens and Breyer. Both of the today’s cases came from the Ninth Circuit,...
Greetings, Court Fans! We’re barely a week into the new Term, and already we have an opinion for you from Tuesday – although it’s just an unsigned per curiam opinion unanimously dispensing of a case without briefing or argument. Moore v. United...
Greetings, Court Fans! The Court issued its first opinion of the Term today – a unanimous per curiam reversal in Dye v. Hofbauer (04-8384). (If this is any indication of how the new Chief will run the ship, we may be in for a very efficient term!) Dye claimed...
