Greetings Court fans! Three new opinions today, and an order list. Since the opinions today were relatively big ones, I’ll start there. First, in State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co. v. Campbell (01-1289), the Court (Kennedy for himself, Rehnquist, Stevens,...
Greetings, Court Fans! The Court issued its final batch of decisions yesterday, including two cases that split 5-4 along ideological lines: Davis v. Federal Election Commission, in which the Court invalidated yet another campaign-finance provision of the Bipartisan...
Greetings, Court fans! For those of you interested in statutory construction, this is your lucky day. Yesterday, in Koons Buick Pontiac GMC, Inc. v. Nigh, 03-377, the Court ruled that Congress’ 1995 amendments to the Truth in Lending Act (“TILA”)...
Greetings Court fans! Welcome to the last update of October Term 2003! In this last edition, you’ll find summaries of 5 opinions and news from the final order list, so let’s get going! I’ll begin with the two Miranda cases, both of which were...
Greetings, Court Fans! The October 2004 Session is in full swing and the Court granted cert in eight additional cases yesterday. Two of those cases involve challenges to the display of the Ten Commandments on government property. In Van Orden v. Perry,...
