Nominations

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Stat Pack Tabs

Snapshot Merits Cases OT10 Total merits opinions: 82 Cases decided after oral argument: 75 Summary reversals: 5 Aff’d by an equally divided court: 2 Total merits opinions expected: 82 Cases scheduled for OT 11: 41 Pace of Grants Grants by Conference (OT2006-OT2011) Pace of Opinions Opinion Distribution (OT2006-OT2010) Circuits Circuit Report for October Term 2010 [...]

Senator Reid

Washington, DC"” Nevada Senator Harry Reid released the following statement today in reaction to the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court: "President Obama has chosen a worthy nominee to replace Justice Stevens, a jurist who Americans have respected and admired for so many years. I [...]

Opinion analysis: Justices affirm broad availability of attorney’s fees in vaccine cases

I previously have written that the argument in Sebelius v. Cloer presaged a likely defeat for the Solicitor General. Justice Sotomayor’s opinion yesterday firmly rejecting the government’s position was exactly what you would have expected based on the argument. The case involves a most unusual statutory scheme that provides no-fault compensation for individuals who suffer [...]

Opinion analysis: U.S. underwrites U.K. tax on privatized energy industry

Allison Christians is the H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Tax Law, McGill University Employing what Justice Thomas calls a “commonsense approach,” yesterday the Court unanimously decided in favor of the taxpayer with respect to the creditability of a foreign tax in PPL Corp & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner. The Court held that PPL Corp., a U.S. [...]

Monday round-up

Briefly: As part of her outreach to poor and immigrant parents, Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke recently at the New York City Department of Education’s English Language Learning Parent Conference, where she urged the audience to work hard to place their children on the path to college and career success.  Mark Walsh covers the event for [...]

Update on October Term 2012 and a new Stat Pack

This is another post in an ongoing series analyzing statistical trends at the Court. For a more complete look at the statistics that we collect on the Court, you can find all of our up-to-date charts and graphs here. We are happy to present the third interim Stat Pack for October Term 2012. This edition [...]

Friday round-up

We have changed our round-up format!  In an effort to simplify the process for our round-up team, going forward we will only include in the round-up news articles and posts that are submitted to us.  If you have (or know of) an article or post that you would like to have included in the round-up, [...]

The Court “DIGs” in Boyer v. Louisiana – and sometimes silence can speak volumes.

One might joke that Monday’s order in  Boyer v. Louisiana, dismissing the writ of certiorari as improvidently granted (“DIG”), was issued to eliminate all traces of Justice Thomas’s single recorded oral argument remark in seven years (as noted in my summary of the oral argument).  But the Justices plainly did not view this dismissal as [...]

Details on today’s opinions

In McBurney v. Young, a unanimous Court (in an opinion by Justice Alito) held that Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act, which grants Virginia citizens access to all public records, but grants no such right to non-Virginians, does not violate the Privileges and Immunities Clause, which protects only those privileges and immunities that are “fundamental.”  Nor, the Court held, [...]

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