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Greetings, Court Fans! The Court is back after a two-week break and issued three opinions today. Brace yourselves for a breakneck pace from here on out: we’re now up to 32 opinions for the session – leaving about 50(!) to be released in the next three months. All three opinions today reversed decisions by the […]
Greetings, Court fans! After a busy week last week, the Court left us with just one decision and a couple of cert grants this week. Justice Scalia wrote for a nearly unanimous Court in Virginia v. Moore (06-1082), where it held that a search incident to an arrest that was unlawful under state law did […]
Greetings, Court Fans! We owe you quite a few summaries, as the Court has been busy (and it will only get busier as the Justices get ready for their summer vacation at the end of the month). Special thanks this time out to Wiggin and Dana associate Tahlia Townsend, who’s helping us catch up with […]
Greetings Court fans! The Court issued two opinions today, but neither one will make big news. The first opinion, South Florida Water Management Dist. v. Miccosukee Tribe of Indians (02-626), was basically a punt. While this could have been an interesting Clean Water Act opinion, the Court vacated and remanded for resolution of a factual […]
Greetings, Court Fans! Every Term ends with a blitzkrieg. But we are almost there . . . only one more Update after this one. In Kansas v. March (04-1170), the Court upheld Kansas’s death penalty statute, which requires the death penalty if a jury unanimously finds that the State has proven, by clear and convincing […]
Greetings, Court fans! Proving that the Court can be merciful, it released five very reasonably sized decisions last Thursday, leaving only ten more to bring you this week. We’re still, however, very grateful to Tahlia Townsend for helping us cover all the opinions. Perhaps the most newsworthy decision came in Indiana v. Edwards (07-208), where […]
Good morning everyone, In response to feedback on my first Supreme Court update, a few introductory comments: First, this will be the last Supreme Court update sent to all lawyers in the firm. Going forward, only litigators and those who request them, will receive the updates. If you would like to receive them, please let […]
Hi everyone! No grants today, but two bits of news. First, the Court denied cert in Borgner v. Florida Bd. of Dentistry (02-165), but Justice Thomas, joined by Justice Ginsburg, dissented from the denial of cert, bemoaning the Court’s failure to take the opportunity to clarify the application of the First Amendment to commercial speech. […]
Greetings Court fans! We’re in the last few weeks of the Term, and so, predictably, the Court issued a handful of decisions today. Five to be exact. Before I turn to those decisions, let me address a few orders. First, late last week, the Court noted probable jurisdiction (read: granted) in the campaign finance law […]