http://www.scotusblog.com/wp The Supreme Court of the United States blog Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:24:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en President Obama, in a press interview on Thursday, said it would give him "huge pause" to create a new system of long-term detention without trial of terrorism suspects.  After a flurry of news accounts, floating unattributed reports that the President would set up such a system by Executive Order, he told ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/the-president-on-long-term-detention/ Courtesy of PARADOCS, a hyperlinked version of the decision in Ricci, et al., v. DeStefano, et al. (07-1428) is available here [Note: the document is hosted on an outside download site because of its large file size (25 MB)].  All references within the opinion are hyperlinked to the relevant documents. http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/hyperlinked-opinion-ricci-v-destefano/ The Supreme Court said Wednesday that a number of the Justices will go to London in October to attend opening ceremonies for the newly established Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.  (A Wikipedia entry on that new Court can be found here.) As a result of the Justices' trip, the ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/justices-to-london-change-in-calendar/ A few days after the President nominated Sonia Sotomayor, I labeled the question of her confirmation “over.”  Along the same lines, I wanted to lay out why I think the hearings themselves will be a complete non-event. Republicans have nothing significant to gain by making the hearing a media event, so ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/the-sotomayor-confirmation-hearings-as-a-non-event/ Please note that Howe & Russell filed an amicus brief in this case on behalf of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, National Fair Housing Alliance, and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. in support of the petitioner.  In 2005, the New York Attorney General began an investigation ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/opinion-recap-cuomo-v-the-clearing-house-ass%e2%80%99n-llc/ As updated below in the Super StatPack, our annual summary memo of statistics from OT08 is available here. We welcome any citation, republishing, or repurposing of these facts and figures.  We ask that you acknowledge SCOTUSblog as the source. http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/akin-gumps-supreme-court-summary-memo/ UPDATE 4:08 p.m.  Republican Norm Coleman on Tuesday afternoon ended his fight for reelection to the U.S. Senate, bowing to a decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court that his opponent, Democrat Al Franken, had won the most votes and was entitled to enter the Senate.  "The [state] Supreme Court has ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/state-court-no-bush-v-gore-violation/ We represent the petitioners in two cases that were granted yesterday, No. 08-645, Abbott v. Abbott, and No. 08-1200, Jerman v. Carlisle.  In Abbott, the Court will construe the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, to which the United States is a party.  Under ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/yesterday%e2%80%99s-grants-in-no-08-645-abbott-v-abbott-and-no-08-1200-jerman-v-carlisle/ It’s always perilous to try and generalize about a Supreme Court Term.  Roughly 80 cases on diverse topics decided by nine different people don’t collectively produce clear themes.  When they do appear to, it’s often a mirage that reflects the coincidence of cases that happen to fall together by chance ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/thoughts-on-this-term-and-the-next/ Exxon Mobil Corp. and its oil tanker subsidiary notified lawyers for fishermen and others harmed by the massive Alaska oil spill 20 years ago that on Wednesday it will pay them $470,268,908, but returned to a federal court to continue a fight over another $54.5 million. The larger payment represents interest ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/exxon-valdez-one-last-fight/ Analysis The cases of Frank Ricci and his 17 New Haven, Conn., firefighter colleagues -- all whites except one Hispanic -- now return from the Supreme Court to lower courts, with only one thing settled: their rights under a federal civil rights law were violated. The Court's ruling in Ricci, et al., ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/analysis-ricci-without-the-rhetoric/ Below the jump are petition filings in the seven cases granted certiorari today for OT09. Here is this morning's order list and here is this afternoon's order list. http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/filings-in-todays-grants/ Here (as one file) are all of our stats, charts, lists, and observations about the just-concluded Term and here are visual representations of the voting lineups in each decision.  In addition to our regular inclusions, we have added an opinion tally, a chart of certiorari grants by conference, and a list ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/end-of-term-super-stat-pack/ The Supreme Court on Monday afternoon ordered a schedule for filing new constitutional arguments when the case of Citizens United v. F.E.C. (08-205) is heard, before the opening of the new Term.  The rehearing itself will be at 10 a.m. on Sept. 9, nearly a month before the formal opening ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/briefing-set-on-citizens-united-rehear/ (NOTE: This post is an updated and modified version of a post that appeared here earlier this afternoon about the new Briscoe case.)  Analysis A fascinating possibility emerged Monday afternoon as the Supreme Court closed its Term: Judge Sonia Sotomayor, if confirmed as a Justice, may hold the deciding vote on the ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/new-lab-report-case-granted/