Today’s Orders
The Order List is available here.
UPDATE: The cert. filings in all four granted cases can be found after the jump.
Docket: 07-513
Case name: Herring v. United States
Issue: Whether the exclusionary rule should apply to evidence seized incident to an arrest unlawful under the Fourth Amendment due to erroneous information negligently provided by another law enforcement agency.
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Docket: 07-581
Case name: 14 Penn Plaza LLC, et al., v. Pyett, et al.
Issue: Whether an arbitration clause in a collective bargaining agreement waiving employees’ right to file statutory discrimination claims is enforceable.
- Opinion below (2nd Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
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Docket: 07-610
Case name: Locke v. Karass
Issue: Whether a public sector union may include in non-members’ agency fees costs for litigation outside the bargaining unit.
- Opinion below (1st Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
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Docket: 07-636
Case name: Kennedy v. Plan Administrator for Dupont Savings and Investment Plan, et al.
Issue: Whether ERISA’s Qualified Domestic Relations Order provision is the only valid way a divorcing spouse can waive her right to receive her ex-husband’s pension benefits under ERISA.
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I noticed a denial of mandamus in the case of In Re Westboro Baptist Church on the Orders List. Westboro is rather high-profile; anyone know what the motion sought?
Comment by Trey Forgety — February 19, 2008 @ 3:14 pm