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...
Greetings Court fans! After a long weekend, the Court issued one opinion today, an opinion that falls within the Court’s “9th Circuit error correction” jurisprudence. Before I begin, I note that given the brevity and simplicity of the opinion,...
Greetings Court fans! The Court took 3 new cases today. By my count, they still need around 3 or 4 cases to finish out this Term. Of course the big news at the Court is that the Solicitor General filed his briefs in the affirmative action cases yesterday. I...
Greetings Court fans! Two criminal cases came down yesterday, along with one item of interest from the order list. I’ll begin with the cases. The big case yesterday was Crawford v. Washington (02-9410), a case briefed, argued, and won by a former colleague of...
Greetings, Court Fans! We have three decisions to report this week, as well as a few cert grants. On Tuesday, the Court issued a 5-3 decision (sans Justice Breyer) in Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. (06-43), one of the most important...
