http://www.scotusblog.com/wp The Supreme Court of the United States blog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:35:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At the WSJ Law Blog this morning, Ashby Jones previews McDonald v. City of Chicago, in which the Court will examine the constitutionality of a Chicago gun-control ordinance and, more generally, the Second Amendment’s applicability to the states.  The petitioners, in a brief filed this week, rely on the Fourteenth ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/friday-round-up-10/ Below, Elisabeth Oppenheimer of Stanford Law School previews Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection (08-1151), which will be heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, December 2.  Check the Stop the Beach Renourishment SCOTUSwiki page for additional updates. On Wednesday, December 2, the Court will hear oral ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/will-the-court-take-on-judicial-takings/ For those that use empirical data to study the Supreme Court, the new Supreme Court Database is now live at supremecourtdatabase.org.  The biggest advantage to the new version of the Database is that it is now more user-friendly and accessible to those who study the Court, but may not have ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/academic-round-up-45/ This edition of “Petitions to Watch” features cases up for consideration at the Justices’ next private conference on Tuesday, November 24.  As always, it lists the petitions on the Court’s paid docket that Tom has deemed to have a reasonable chance of being granted.  Links to all previous editions are ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/petitions-to-watch-conference-of-11-24-09/ Linda Greenhouse has an article in the Charleston Law Review’s Supreme Court Preview issue (starting at page 37) in which she assesses Justice Breyer’s jurisprudence on the Court, at the presumed midpoint of his tenure there.  Greenhouse writes that Breyer is the “quintessential Enlightenment Supreme Court Justice,” someone who “believes ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/thursday-round-up-10/ The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to leave undisturbed a lower court ruling that limits the government's power to keep secret photos or documents that reveal official wrongdoing.  Thus, the ACLU argued in a new brief, the Court should deny a Pentagon request to vacate that ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/aclu-seeks-to-salvage-foia-ruling/ Roll Call (subscription only) has an editorial by Simon Lazarus in which he argues that Congress is pushing back against recent Court decisions that encroach on Congress’s domain.  Lazarus cites four examples of legislation Congress introduced to reverse the Court’s decisions and a fiery reproach of the Court’s conservatives from ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wednesday-round-up-9/ Posing a major test of the sweeping scope of the government's most-used legal weapon against "terrorism," six groups and two individuals urged the Supreme Court on Monday to pare down key provisions of the USA Patriot Act.  The government interprets those provisions so broadly, the new merits brief argued, that it ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/brief-pare-down-patriot-act/ The Court’s decision not to review a challenge by a Native American group to the Washington Redskins mascot leads Monday’s coverage. The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, NPR, and the hometown Washington Post all report on the Court’s denial of cert. in Harjo v. Pro-Football Inc. Although this challenge to the ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/tuesday-round-up-3/ UPDATE Tuesday a.m.  The National Rifle Association on Monday filed a brief supporting the Chicagoans' challenge.  It can be downloaded here.  The NRA has been pursuing a similar challenge (pending petition, 08-1497).  It is in the McDonald case as a respondent supporting the petitioners.  The following post has also been ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/history-lesson-on-2nd-amendments-reach/ The Court has granted certiorari in one case, Magwood v. Culliver (09-158), and invited the Solicitor General to file a brief expressing the views of the United States in Holy See v. John Doe (09-1).  The Court also issued a summary judgment in the case Wong v. Belmontes (08-1263), reversing ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/todays-orders-46/ The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to rule on a state prison inmate's right to challenge in federal court when a new sentence has been imposed.  The key issue is whether such a challenge is barred when it could have been pursued in an earlier habeas plea. The Court thus granted review ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/court-adds-one-new-case/ The Court will not hear any oral arguments this week.  Orders are expected this morning at 10 a.m. from the Justices' private conference on Friday.  SCOTUSblog's list of Petitions to Watch from this conference is here. The schedule of merits briefs due this week is below the jump. Monday, Nov. 16: Holder v. ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/this-week-at-the-court/ On Sunday, L. Gordon Crovitz had an op-ed about Bilski v. Kappos in the The Wall Street Journal. The Newark Star-Ledger’s editorial board is calling for eminent domain reform in New Jersey, citing Kelo v. New London as the main reason for reform. The New York ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/12935/ The Obama Administration on Friday evening urged the Supreme Court to turn aside a test case by four former Guantanamo Bay detainees, and to do so without ruling on their claims of torture and religious discrimination by U.S. agents there.  It is clear, Solicitor General Elena Kagan argued in the new filing, ... http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/u-s-no-need-to-rule-on-torture-claim/