Wednesday round-up
on Apr 8, 2015 at 6:36 am
Briefly:
- In his Sidebar column for The New York Times, Adam Liptak highlights “[t]wo impressive friend-of-the-court briefs [that] have urged the justices to look abroad before deciding whether there is a nationwide right to same-sex marriage.”
- In the Texas Lawyer (subscription required), Miriam Rozen profiles several Texas attorneys who have recently argued (or will soon argue) at the Court for the first time.
- In an op-ed for The Hill, Jonathan Nash suggests that two words in Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, in which a divided Court held that Medicaid providers do not have a cause of action to challenge a state’s reimbursement rates, “seem arcane, but may have substantial repercussions for how Congress drafts statutes and how courts interpret them.”
- At the blog of the National Conference of State Legislatures, Lisa Soronen discusses the possibility that death penalty cases will “dominate” the Court’s next Term.
- Lawrence Hurley of Reuters (via the Huffington Post) reports on the Court’s denial of review in a challenge to “the legality of new Republican-backed voting restrictions in North Carolina that were part of a law opponents argued was aimed at making it harder for voters who tend to favor Democrats to cast ballots.”
- At PrawfsBlawg, Richard Re looks at a proposal by retired Justice John Paul Stevens for a constitutional amendment addressing state sovereign immunity; Re contends that “thereis something quite surprising about Stevens’s proposal: if read according to its terms, it might not have any significant effect at all.”
- Cockle News & Briefs remembers George Cockle, who for five decades operated the family-owned business that prints Supreme Court briefs; Cockle died on April 4, just a few days short of his ninety-fifth birthday.
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