Comments on: Orders: Bankruptcy case granted

By: ohwilleke

ohwilleke — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:36:43 +0000

Interestingly, the Israeli Supreme Court has a special procedure for situations just like this, where a justice of the Supreme Court has doubts about a previous precedent of the court and wants to re-evaluate it in light of how it turned out to work in practice.

By: valpodogs

valpodogs — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:42:30 +0000

He changed his mind. See Shepard v. United States, 125 S. Ct. 1254, 1264 (Thomas, J., concurring) (disavowing his concurring vote in Almanderez-Torres, a five-four Sixth Amendment decision upon which criminal history “exception” to Apprendi-Blakely rule is based).

By: Michael Colasanti

Michael Colasanti — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:07:37 +0000

Can someone explain why Thomas would vocally advocate to overturn a ruling that he, himself, joined?

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 14:24:18 +0000

Looks like the IFP is whether certain state-law drug convictions count as a "violent felony" or "serious drug offense" and thus trigger the Armed Career Criminal Act. The decision under review is here. (The defendant also argued the ACCA is unconstitutional; I assume that's not the question on which cert was granted.)