The Supreme Court handed down sixteen opinions in March and April, including the New York gun rights case (spoiler alert: the case was moot), the ACA reimbursement case (8-1 ruling that the government must pay health insurers as promised for taking on high-risk patients) and an interesting copyright case (with the unexpected lineup of the
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At Last, Opinions
(Supreme Court conference room. Photo credit: Supreme Court of the United States).
After one of the slowest starts in history, the Supreme Court has finally started to issue opinions. Only three were issued before the end of 2019, and only two in January. Of these, two were per curiam opinions (“by the court” unsigned opinions)
The Court and COVID-19
A note about how COVID-19 (coronavirus) has impacted the Supreme Court. (Full details about all of this can be found at SCOTUSblog).
On one hand, the Court is continuing to operate. Although the Court is closed to the public, it is technically open for business. The Court handed down four opinions on Monday (3/23)
Faithless Electors
This post will talk about everyone’s favorite (insert sarcasm emoji) election-year topic: the Electoral College. And unless you think that it hasn’t made it’s way to the Supreme Court, it has, in two cases to be argued in April. They will tackle an aspect of the College that you maybe haven’t thought about: what if
2020: What We Have To Look Forward To
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Well, 2020 is here, I have finally stopped writing appellate briefs (for a while), and so it is well past time to update this blog. What better topic than the present term of the Supreme Court, details of which have been obscured by
The End of the Term I: The Fourth Amendment and the Census Case
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Brief writing is now over for a while. Time to get back to blogging.
This is the first in a series of three blog posts about the end of the October 2018 term of the Supreme Court and a look ahead to the
61 Down, 8 Cases To Go
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Since my last post (June 6), the Supreme Court has handed down 19 cases, leaving only 8 to go. Four of these (the census citizenship question (Commerce), gerrymandering (Rucho and Benisek), and Kisor (whether the Supreme
What a June It Will Be
The Supreme Court This Term: Criminal Law
The Supreme Court is on a short break until May 9, having completed the arguments for this term. Now its time to issue all the remaining opinions before the end of the term (the last week of June or very early July). Here is where they stand:
Dispositions by sitting (major cases in red, decided
The Tennessee Wine Case: Selling Wine Before Your Time/Double Jeopardy and a 170-Year Old Precedent
This post is about two cases that are currently before the Supreme Court. Both have been argued; we are just waiting for a decision in each. The first case is about whether a state can impose residency requirements on a seller of wine before that seller can sell wine. The second case concerns double jeopardy