Greetings Court fans! The Court issued four opinions and an order list yesterday. That leaves ten opinions remaining for the Term. Currently, the Court only has one more day (next Monday) scheduled to hand down opinions, but I’d be surprised if they didn’t...
Greetings Court fans! Not much to report today; just three grants from the order list: 1. Johnson v. California (03-636): This is an equal protection challenge to California’s policy of segregating prisoners by race in the initial days of their...
Greetings, Court Fans! You’ll be happy to know that today’s update is short and sweet — the Court issued no opinions today, just an order list. We do expect the Court to issue some opinions tomorrow and Wednesday, which promises to be an...
Greetings Court fans! The Court granted cert in 2 cases today, but before I get to those summaries, a brief clarification/correction from Friday’s update. An alert reader of my summary of Scalia’s recusal opinion noted that my description of the...
Greetings, Court fans! In our excitement over the new nominee, we neglected to mention that the Court issued two per curiam opinions yesterday (with no recorded dissents). In Kane v. Espitia (04-1538), the Court reversed the Ninth Circuit’s grant...
