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On Tuesday, December 10, and on Wednesday, December 11, we expect one or more opinions in argued cases at 10:00 a.m. We will begin live blogging both days beginning at 9:45.
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The Supreme Court refused on Monday to provide new guidance on the kind of proof needed to show that a corporate activity challenged in a civil RICO lawsuit had caused harm to others. The Justices gave no reason as they turned aside an attempt by the pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer Inc., to head off a wave of lawsuits over its promotion of the drug Neurontin for pain management.
The Court granted no new cases. There were no requests for the views of the federal government on new cases.
This week the Court will hear oral argument in American Lung Association v. EME Homer City Generation and EPA v. EME Homer City Generation, the challenges to the government’s power to require states to prevent their air pollution from affecting their neighbors. Lyle Denniston previewed the case for this blog; other coverage comes from Richard Wolf of USA Today.
Yesterday morning Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg denied an application by a group of consumers who had asked the Court to block the merger between American Airlines and US Airways. Lyle Denniston covered those developments for this blog, with other coverage coming from CNN and Richard Wolf of USA Today. Continue reading »
This morning at 9:30a.m. we expect additional orders from the Court’s December 6 Conference.
Following orders, the Justices are scheduled to hear two oral arguments: Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. v. Hoeper, previewed for this blog by Christina Tilley, followed by Ray Haluch Gravel Co. v. Central Pension Fund, previewed for this blog by Howard Wasserman.
UPDATE: Sunday 7:51 a.m. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has denied this challenge, without issuing an opinion.
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A group of consumers seeking to block the imminent merger of American Airlines and U.S. Airways moved on to the Supreme Court Saturday evening, seeking an order to keep the creation of the nation’s largest airline from taking place next week. The application in Fjord v. AMR Corporation (docket 13A579) can be read here.
At 9:30 a.m. on Monday, we expect additional orders from the Court’s December 6 Conference. (As Lyle reported the Court granted one new case from that Conference on Friday afternoon.) On Tuesday at 10:00 a.m., we expect one or more opinions in argued cases. We will begin live blogging at 9:45. This is the second week of the December sitting; the hearing list for this sitting is here.
At 10 a.m. Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hold ninety minutes of oral argument on two joined cases, testing the federal government’s authority to require states to take action to prevent their air pollution from fouling the air in neighboring states. Defending the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority will be Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Malcolm L. Stewart, with forty-five minutes of time. Arguing against the EPA will be Jonathan F. Mitchell, Texas’s state solicitor general, for state and local government parties, with twenty minutes, and Peter D. Keisler, of the Washington, D.C., office of Sidley Austin, for industry and labor parties, with twenty-five minutes. The cases are EPA v. EME Homer City Generation and American Lung Association v. EME Homer City Generation.
Background
It is an undeniable fact of nature that polluted air, made dirty in one place by human activity, is carried by the wind to other places. But it is a myth that the pollution is always scattered in only one direction — upwind to downwind. The scientific reality is that polluted air swirls around, in several directions, so it is not easy to figure out just where it came from.
That is the puzzle that Congress and the federal government have been trying to figure out for most of the history of the Clean Air Act, at least for the past half-century. The Environmental Protection Agency’s most recent effort to sort that out — never put into effect and ultimately nullified by a federal appeals court — is now up for review by the Supreme Court.
The petition of the day is:
Issue: (1) Whether, when law enforcement officers provide Miranda v. Arizona warnings prior to conducting a voluntary, noncustodial interview, they must cease all questioning if the interview subject subsequently expresses a desire to stop the interview, or whether the officers may continue the questioning without violating any constitutional requirements; and (2) whether, if what concededly began as a voluntary, noncustodial interview by police arguably becomes a custodial situation, the fact of “custody” alone makes any subsequently obtained confession involuntary, or must a court employ a “totality of the circumstances” analysis, with custody simply being one factor.
Oyez has posted the argument audio in this week’s cases. The Court heard arguments this week in:
In this eight-part interview, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit discusses his background, including: a race for Congress; clerking for Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and the value of humility; the confirmation process and the life and work of a federal appeals court judge; understanding the Court, interviewing [...]
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Kevin Johnson
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