Hi everyone and welcome to another edition of Supreme Court updates! No opinions today, but three new “grants” for the docket (a big day for the Solicitor General’s office), and some business from last week. First, and most significantly, in United...
Greetings, Court fans! The Court appears to be enjoying a serious honeymoon period. The percentage of unanimous opinions so far has been astonishing, and even those with a dissent or concurrence lack the strident language we’ve seen in Terms past. This may be...
Greetings, Court Fans! We’re back with the two decisions from Wednesday, which deal with the accrual of a cause of action for false arrest and the conversion of bankruptcy proceedings from Chapter 7 to Chapter 13 under the Bankruptcy Code. We’ll cover...
Greetings, Court Fans! This week will be a big week at the Court. For starters, on Wednesday the Court will hear arguments in the biggest cases of the Term, Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195) and Al Odah v. United States (06-1196). The cases concern whether the...
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...
