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		<title>Petition of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The petition of the day is:]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion analysis:  Justices affirm broad availability of attorney’s fees in vaccine cases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion analysis:  U.S. underwrites U.K. tax on privatized energy industry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; Subsidiaries v. Commissioner. The Court held that PPL Corp., a U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday round-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Court released orders from its May 16 Conference, granting cert. in five new cases; it also issued four opinions in argued cases. In Metrish v. Lancaster, the Court unanimously held that a state prisoner who was convicted of first-degree murder was not entitled to federal habeas relief when state courts precluded him from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relist watch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Elwood reviews Monday’s relisted cases. If you’re reading this post, presumably your early retirement plans didn’t pan out either, meaning you’re probably not in Jamaica preparing for a fulfilling life of lobster shooters and mountains of ganja piña coladas.  But luckily, for the rest of us, there’s still Relist Watch, which is now empirically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Petition of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The petition of the day is:]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion recap: Saying little on retroactivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Analysis Amid signs that the ruling was a very easy one to reach, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed the state of Michigan to deny a man accused of murder a legal defense that he previously had but then lost the right to use at a second trial.  Allowing the withdrawal of a mental defect defense after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court to rule on government prayer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Returning for the first time in three decades to the constitutionality of saying prayers at the opening of a government meeting, the Supreme Court on Monday took on a case involving Town Board sessions in the upstate New York community named Greece, a city of about 100,000 people.  For years, it followed the practice of having local clergy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live blog of orders and opinions (Sponsored by Bloomberg Law) (Updated: Completed)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With the help of our reporter, Lyle Denniston, we will be live blogging as orders and opinions are issued today. Once you see the window and our initial welcome, we ask that you do not refresh your browser. Updates will appear without the need for refreshing. Live blog of orders and opinions]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/05/live-blog-of-order-and-opinions-sponsored-by-bloomberg-law/</link>
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		<title>Monday round-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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