Azar v. Garza

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Azar v. Garza

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Petition for a writ of certiorari granted, en banc order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated and case remanded to the court of appeals with instructions to direct the district court to dismiss the relevant individual claim for injunctive relief as moot on June 4, 2018

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
17-654	D.C. Cir.	Not Argued	Jun 4, 2018	n/a	Per Curiam	OT 2017

Holding: The litigation over Jane Doe’s temporary restraining order allowing her to obtain an abortion despite the policy of the Office of Refugee Resettlement falls squarely within established practice to reverse or vacate the judgment below and remand with a direction to dismiss when a civil case from a court in the federal system has become moot while on its way to the Supreme Court.

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Date	Proceedings and Orders
Nov 03 2017	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 4, 2017)
Nov 03 2017	Motion to lodge non-record material under seal filed by petitioners.
Nov 08 2017	Motion DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/1/2017.
Nov 17 2017	Response to Motion Requested. (Due December 18, 2017)
Nov 30 2017	Brief amicus curiae of Legal Center for Defense of Life filed.
Dec 04 2017	Brief of respondent Rochelle Garza, as Guardian ad Litem to Unaccompanied Minor J.D. in opposition filed.
Dec 04 2017	Brief amici curiae of The States of Texas, et al. filed.
Dec 18 2017	Motion to lodge non-record material under seal with redacted copies for the public record filed by petitioners.
Dec 18 2017	Letter in response to the motion to lodge non-record material under seal with redacted copies for the public record filed by respondent.
Dec 19 2017	Reply of petitioners Eric D. Hargan, et al. filed.
Dec 20 2017	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/5/2018.
Jan 04 2018	Rescheduled.
Jan 08 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/12/2018.
Jan 11 2018	Letter of January 11, 2018 from counsel for respondent received. (Distributed)
Jan 16 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/19/2018.
Jan 18 2018	Letter of January 18, 2018, from counsel for the petitioners received. (Distributed)
Feb 05 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/16/2018.
Feb 20 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/23/2018.
Feb 26 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/2/2018.
Feb 26 2018	Record Requested.
Feb 26 2018	Record received from the U.S.D.C. for the District of Columbia. The record is electronic and available on PACER. SEALED materials transmitted separately.
Feb 26 2018	Record received from the U.S.C.A. for the D.C. Circuit. The record is electronic and available on PACER. SEALED materials transmitted separately.
Mar 12 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/16/2018.
Mar 19 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/23/2018.
Mar 26 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/29/2018.
Apr 02 2018	Letter of respondent Rochelle Garza, as Guardian ad Litem to Unaccompanied Minor J.D. filed.
Apr 09 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/13/2018.
Apr 16 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/20/2018.
Apr 23 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/27/2018.
May 07 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/10/2018.
May 14 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/17/2018.
May 21 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/24/2018.
May 29 2018	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/31/2018.
Jun 04 2018	Motion to lodge non-record material under seal with redacted copies for the public record GRANTED.
Jun 04 2018	The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The en banc order of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is vacated and the case is remanded to that court with instructions to direct the District Court to dismiss the relevant individual claim for injunctive relief as moot. See United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U. S. 36 (1950). Opinion per curiam. (Detached Opinion)

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Symposium: The Supremes put off deciding whether politics violates the Constitution – Hans von Spakovsky

Symposium: The elections clause as a structural constraint on partisan gerrymandering of Congress – Richard Pildes

Opinion analysis: Form order certifying that judge considered appropriate factors was sufficient to explain sentencing modification – Susan Klein
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On Monday the Supreme Court released orders from the June 14 conference and opinions in argued cases.
The justices granted certiorari in five cases: Sturgeon v. Frost, Garza v. Idaho, Lorenzo v. SEC, Timbs v. Indiana and Apple v. Pepper.
The justices released their decisions in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, Chavez-Meza v. United States, Lozman v. Riviera Beach, Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone.
On Thursday, there is a possibility of opinions at 10 a.m. The justices will meet for their June 21 conference; our list of “petitions to watch” for that conference will be available soon.
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- Trump v. Hawaii
  (1) Whether the respondents’ challenge to the president’s suspension of entry of aliens abroad is justiciable; (2) whether the proclamation – which suspends entry, subject to exceptions and case-by-case waivers, of certain categories of aliens abroad from eight countries that do not share adequate information with the United States or that present other risk factors – is a lawful exercise of the president’s authority to suspend entry of aliens abroad; (3) whether the global injunction barring enforcement of the proclamation’s entry suspensions worldwide, except as to nationals of two countries and as to persons without a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States, is impermissibly overbroad; and (4) whether the proclamation violates the establishment clause of the Constitution.
- South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.
  Whether the Supreme Court should abrogate Quill Corp. v. North Dakota's sales-tax-only, physical-presence requirement.
- Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31
  Whether Abood v. Detroit Board of Education should be overruled and public-sector “agency shop” arrangements invalidated under the First Amendment.
- Gill v. Whitford
  Plaintiffs -- Wisconsin Democratic voters who rested their claim of unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering on statewide injury -- have failed to demonstrate Article III standing.
- Carpenter v. United States
  Whether the warrantless seizure and search of historical cellphone records revealing the location and movements of a cellphone user over the course of 127 days is permitted by the Fourth Amendment.
- Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
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Recent Decisions
- Benisek v. Lamone Because the balance of equities and the public interest tilt against the preliminary injunction motion of plaintiffs claiming that a Maryland congressional district was gerrymandered to retaliate against them for their political views, the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion.
- Chavez-Meza v. United States Because the record in this case demonstrates that the judge had a reasoned basis for his decision, the judge’s explanation for reducing, under 18 U. S. C. §3582(c)(2), Adaucto Chavez-Meza’s sentence to the middle rather than the bottom of the amended Federal Guidelines range was adequate.
- Gill v. Whitford Plaintiffs -- Wisconsin Democratic voters who rested their claim of unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering on statewide injury -- have failed to demonstrate Article III standing.
- Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach, Florida The existence of probable cause for Fane Lozman’s arrest for disrupting a city council meeting does not bar his First Amendment retaliatory arrest claim under the circumstances of this case.
- Rosales-Mireles v. United States A miscalculation of a Federal Guidelines sentencing range that has been determined to be plain and to affect a defendant’s substantial rights calls for a court of appeals to exercise its discretion under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b) to vacate the defendant’s sentence in the ordinary case.
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Current Relists
- Arlene's Flowers Inc. v. Washington (1) Whether the creation and sale of custom floral arrangements to celebrate a wedding ceremony is artistic expression, and, if so, whether compelling their creation violates the free speech clause; and (2) whether the compelled creation and sale of custom floral arrangements to celebrate a wedding and attendance of that wedding against one's religious beliefs violates the free exercise clause.
- Bearcomesout v. United States Whether the “separate sovereign” concept actually exists when Congress’s plenary power over Indian tribes and the general erosion of any real tribal sovereignty is amplified by the Northern Cheyenne Tribe’s constitution in such a way that the petitioner’s prosecutions in both tribal and federal court violate the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.
- Biestek v. Berryhill Whether a vocational expert’s testimony can constitute substantial evidence of “other work,” 20 C.F.R. § 404.1520(a)(4)(v), available to an applicant for social security benefits on the basis of a disability, when the expert fails upon the applicant’s request to provide the underlying data on which that testimony is premised.
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