Round-Up
Mark H. Anderson reports here (subscription req’d) in the Wall Street Journal on today’s action including the Court’s ruling in Safeco Insurance v. Burr; its 5-4 decision in Uttecht v. Brown; its decision to review the age discrimination lawsuit, Federal Express Corp. v Holowecki; and its request for the views of the Solicitor General in Teck Cominco Metals v. Pakootas.
Bloomberg’s Greg Stohr reports here on the credit-score ruling, which limited the rights of consumers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act; James Vicini of Reuters has this article about the Court’s unanimous opinion reversing Ninth Circuit rulings against Geico and Safeco; the AP’s Pete Yost reports here on the decision making it harder to sue over credit reporting.
The AP’s Mark Sherman reports here on the Court’s ruling in Uttecht; David Stout has this article in the New York Times on the Court’s opinion, which reinstated the death sentence of a convicted murderer, carjacker and rapist; and in the LA Times, David G. Savage has this story on the decision, which “was sharply split along conservative-liberal lines.”
The Associated Press reports here on the High Court’s unanimous ruling in Sole v. Wyner, making it more difficult to recover legal fees from the government; Tony Mauro has this post at the BLT. The AP also has this article on the Supreme Court’s decision to decline the case of a widow of a leukemia victim attempting to hold oil companies accountable for her husband’s poor health.
In today’s Washington Post, Alan Cooperman reports here on “a highly visible rift in the anti-abortion movement” created by the Supreme Court’s April decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. And the AP’s David Eggert has this article on a Sixth Circuit ruling that rejected Michigan’s attempt to ban “partial-birth” abortion.
Finally, William Glaberson has this article in the New York Times about the dismissal of war crimes charges against Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr.
David Stout writes,
“The court dismissed a closely watched appeal in a criminal sentencing case because the man who filed the appeal has died… The court will substitute another case that presents the same question.”
How does he know that SCOTUS will take that path?
Comment by Jacob Berlove — June 4, 2007 @ 8:33 pm