Greetings, Court Fans, and welcome back for another Term of the Supreme Court Update! As hard as it is to believe, fall is upon us, and the Court is set to open the second Term of the Roberts era next week. As in past Terms, when the Court issues an order or...
Greetings, Court Fans! As promised, here is a follow-up to Tuesday’s update on the Court’s latest order list with the questions presented in Rompilla v. Beard, 04-5462. In that case, a Pennsylvania defendant received a death sentence after the prosecution...
Greetings Court fans! This email should finish out all the opinions handed down in the last 2 weeks. The Court will sit tomorrow to hand down an order list (and possibly opinions), but that should be it for this coming week. Before turning to the opinions, the Court...
Greetings, Court fans! Today’s order list contains two items of note. First, in five cases led by Jackson v. Perry, 03-1931, the Court issued summary orders vacating a ruling by a three-judge panel of the Eastern District of Texas that upheld Texas’ new...
Greetings, Court fans! Before going on recess, the Court left us with one decision (an original jurisdiction case relevant to almost no one’s practice, but full of historical intrigue) and two cert grants. We don’t expect additional opinions until the week...
