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Below, Stanford Law School’s Bryan Henderson previews United Student Aid Funds, Inc. v. Espinosa , one of two cases to be heard by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, December 1. Check the United Student Aid Funds (08-1134) SCOTUSwiki page for additional updates.
On Tuesday, December 1, in ...
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Lawyers for four former detainees at Guantanamo Bay urged the Supreme Court Monday to face, head-on, the question of whether it is unconstitutional for U.S. officials to torture individuals being held captive. In a reply brief filed in Rasul, et al., v. Myers, et al ., the attorneys for the ...
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For the second week in a row, no oral arguments are scheduled. The Justices will hold their private conference on Tuesday, orders from which will likely be announced on Monday, November 30.
The schedule of merits briefs due this week appears below the jump.
Monday, Nov. 23:
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At the WSJ Law Blog this morning, Ashby Jones previews McDonald v. City of Chicago , in which the Court will examine the constitutionality of a Chicago gun-control ordinance and, more generally, the Second Amendment’s applicability to the states. The petitioners, in a brief filed this week, ...
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Below, Elisabeth Oppenheimer of Stanford Law School previews Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection (08-1151), which will be heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, December 2. Check the Stop the Beach Renourishment SCOTUSwiki page for additional ...
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For those that use empirical data to study the Supreme Court, the new Supreme Court Database is now live at supremecourtdatabase.org. The biggest advantage to the new version of the Database is that it is now more user-friendly and accessible to those who study the Court, but may not have ...
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General David Petraeus
This edition of “Petitions to Watch” features cases up for consideration at the Justices’ next private conference on Tuesday, November 24. As always, it lists the petitions on the Court’s paid docket that Tom has deemed to have a reasonable chance of being granted. Links to all previous ...
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Linda Greenhouse has an article in the Charleston
Law Review’s Supreme Court Preview issue (starting at page
37) in which she assesses Justice Breyer’s jurisprudence on the Court, at the presumed midpoint of his tenure there. Greenhouse writes ...
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The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to leave undisturbed a lower court ruling that limits the government’s power to keep secret photos or documents that reveal official wrongdoing. Thus, the ACLU argued in a new brief , the Court should deny a Pentagon ...
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Roll Call (subscription only) has an editorial by Simon Lazarus in which he argues that Congress is pushing back against recent Court decisions that encroach on Congress’s domain. Lazarus cites four examples of legislation Congress introduced to reverse the Court’s decisions and a fiery ...
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Posing a major test of the sweeping scope
of the government’s most-used legal weapon against “terrorism,” six
groups and two individuals urged the Supreme Court on Monday to pare down key provisions of the USA Patriot Act. The ...
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Brief: Pare down Patriot Act: Merits brief, ...
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With a strong plea to revive the Constitution’s
ill-fated Privileges and Immunities Clause, lawyers for four Chicagoans
told the Supreme Court on Monday that history shows clearly that the Second Amendment’s protection of personal gun ...
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History lesson on 2nd Amendment’s reach: Merits brief, ...
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The Court has granted certiorari in one case,
Magwood v. Culliver (09-158), and invited the Solicitor General
to file a brief expressing the views of the United States in Holy See v. John Doe (09-1). The full order list is here . [Disclosure: ...
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Today’s Orders
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The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to rule
on a state prison inmate’s right to challenge in
federal court when a new sentence has been imposed. The Court granted review of the first question in Maywood v. Culliver (09-158). In addition, the ...
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Court adds one new case
The Court will not hear any oral arguments this week. Orders are expected this morning at 10 a.m. from the Justices’ private conference on Friday. SCOTUSblog’s list of Petitions to Watch from this conference is here .
The schedule of merits briefs due this week is below the ...
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On Sunday, L. Gordon Crovitz had an op-ed about Bilski v. Kappos in the The Wall Street Journal .
The Newark Star-Ledger’s editorial board is calling for eminent domain reform in New Jersey, citing Kelo v. New London as the main reason for reform.
The New York Times has two ...
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On Sunday, L. Gordon Crovitz had an op-ed about Bilski v. Kappos in the The Wall Street Journal .
The Newark Star-Ledger ’s editorial board is calling for eminent domain reform in New Jersey, citing Kelo v. New London as the main reason for reform.
The New York Times has two ...
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The Obama Administration on Friday evening urged the
Supreme Court to turn aside a test case by
four former Guantanamo Bay detainees, and do so without ruling on their claims of torture and religious discrimination by U.S. agents there. It is clear, ...
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U.S.: No need to rule on torture claim
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates ruled on Friday
that 44 photos that reportedly show abuse of detainees
by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan cannot be released publicly. The Obama Administration notified the Supreme Court on Friday evening ...
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Gates bars abuse photos’ release
Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr., announced Friday that five Guantanamo Bay detainees previously charged with war crimes before military commissions will now be shifted to a federal District Court in New York City for trial under normal civilian court processes. Each of the five, Holder said, ...
