At 9:30 a.m. on Monday, May 20 we expect orders from the May 16 Conference. We expect opinions in argued cases at 10 a.m. We will begin live blogging shortly before 9:30.
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Amy has worked on the blog, most recently as its editor, since 2003. She is also a partner at Goldstein & Russell, P.C., a Supreme Court litigation boutique. She has served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and has argued two cases there; she has also argued in the District of Columbia and Fourth Circuits. From 2004 until 2011, she co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School; since 2005, she has co-taught a similar class at Harvard Law School. She has also served as an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law. Amy is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center.
In an unanimous decision, the Court held that a soybean farmer cannot reproduce agri-giant Monsanto’s patented, genetically modified seeds through planting and harvesting without the company’s permission. Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss the legal, agricultural, and technological implications of this decision.
At 9:30 a.m. on Monday we expect orders from the May 16 Conference. Our list of “Petitions to watch” for that Conference is here. At 10 a.m. we expect opinions in argued cases. We will begin live blogging shortly before 9:30.
On Thursday the Justices will meet for their May 23 Conference. Our list of “Petitions to watch” for that Conference is here.
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