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By Amy Howe on Oct. 9 at 5:16 p.m.

At oral arguments on Wednesday, it was not clear how the Supreme Court will rule in Richard Glossip’s appeal for a new trial in the case that put him on death row nearly three decades ago. Glossip, now joined by the state that originally prosecuted him, argues that prosecutors withheld evidence about their key witness, violating his constitutional rights and creating an unfair trial. Oklahoma’s top criminal court, however, says Glossip’s sentence must stand.

Man speaks to justices on bench while crowd looks on.

The court heard oral arguments in Glossip v. Oklahoma on Wednesday. (William Hennessy)

By John Elwood on Oct. 10 at 5:05 p.m.

A regular round-up of “relisted” petitions. This week: After officially meeting last week for the first time since July, the justices held onto 14 petitions to consider at a second conference on Friday. Relisted petitions prove important to watch because they are far more likely to be taken up for review on the court’s merits docket.

By Amy Howe on Oct. 8 at 5:36 p.m.

The court was divided at oral arguments over a dispute concerning attorney’s fees for some civil rights plaintiffs. The justices seemed skeptical of Virginia’s contention that they should reverse the lower court’s ruling and hold that in cases of temporary relief, like the one here, plaintiffs can never win attorney’s fees. However the justices decide the case, it could have a major impact on civil rights litigation across the country.

By Amy Howe on Oct. 8 at 5:07 p.m.

The court on Tuesday seemed ready to uphold a 2022 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives rule regulating as traditional firearms guns that can be built from a kit and have no serial numbers. Known as ghost guns, these weapons have become increasingly popular in recent years. Challengers argued that the ATF had overstepped its authority set out under the 1968 Gun Control Act.

In this video, Nate Mowry interviews Pete Patterson from Cooper & Kirk. Pete will be arguing on behalf of the challengers in Garland v. VanDerStok, who are seeking to invalidate a 2022 rule by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives that regulates so-called “ghost guns.”

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By Ellena Erskine on Oct 11, 2024 at 10:19 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:

Election may decide if Trump’s legal woes reach US Supreme Court or wither (John Kruzel, Reuters)
Supreme Court Silence on ‘Personhood’ Leaves IVF Vulnerable (Mary Anne Pazanowski, Bloomberg Law)
Unexpected Trouble in the ‘Ghost Gun’ Case (Dan McLaughlin, National Review)
Why the Supreme Court May Not Decide the 2024 Election After All (Richard Hasen, Slate)
The Supreme Court Has Grown Too Powerful. Congress Must Intervene. (Nikolas Bowie & Daphna Renan, The New York Times)

By Ellena Erskine on Oct 10, 2024 at 10:01 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:

U.S. Supreme Court to hear case on disputed West Texas nuclear waste plan (Travis Bubenik, Marfa Public Radio)
US Supreme Court signals concern over Glossip death penalty decision (John Kruzel & Andrew Chung, Reuters)
U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on Oklahoma capital conviction of Richard Glossip (Nuria Martinez-Keel, Oklahoma Voice)
Why the Supreme Court Might Cast the Final Vote for President (Aziz, Huq, Politico)
FBI probe of Kavanaugh constrained by Trump White House, report finds (Beth Reinhard, The Washington Post)

By Ellena Erskine on Oct 09, 2024 at 10:23 am

The court hears oral arguments in Glossip v. Oklahoma this morning. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:

Supreme Court to hear ‘remarkable’ Oklahoma death penalty appeal from Richard Glossip (Devin Dwyer, ABC News)
Supreme Court hears Oklahoma death penalty case in which state and inmate agree conviction should be tossed (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
Supreme Court signals it may uphold Biden’s regulations on ‘ghost gun’ kits (John Fritze, CNN)
Colorado’s Supreme Court dismisses suit against baker who wouldn’t make a cake for transgender woman (Matthew Brown, The Associated Press)
The Supreme Court’s Originalists Are Fundamentally Wrong About History (Andrew Lanham, The New Republic)

By Ellena Erskine on Oct 08, 2024 at 9:58 am

The justices will hear oral arguments this morning in Garland v. VanDerStok and Lackey v. Stinnie. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

Supreme Court will hear a challenge to ghost-gun regulation (Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press)
Supreme Court seeks Biden admin views on state climate fight (Lesley Clark, E&E News)
In pet food case, US Supreme Court grapples with weight of a footnote (Alison Frankel, Reuters)
Death Penalty, Nuclear Waste and More: Supreme Court Rounds Out Coming Term (Abbie VanSickle and Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
Supreme Court declines to take up ‘dark money’ case (Taylor Giorno, The Hill)

By Nate Mowry on Oct 08, 2024 at 8:31 am

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1	2 Pulsifer v. United States (22-340) oral_arguments	3 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited (22-448) oral_arguments	4 Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer (22-429) oral_arguments	5	6 Conference private_conferences	7
8	9 Columbus Day holidays	10 Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC (22-660) oral_arguments Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC (22-500) oral_arguments	11 Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP (22-807) oral_arguments	12	13 Conference private_conferences	14
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22	23	24	25	26	27 Conference private_conferences	28
29	30 Culley v. Marshall (22-585) oral_arguments	31 O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier (22-324) oral_arguments Lindke v. Freed (22-611) oral_arguments

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			1	2	3 Conference private_conferences	4
5	6 Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz (22-846) oral_arguments	7 U.S. v. Rahimi (22-915) oral_arguments	8 Rudisill v. McDonough (22-888) oral_arguments	9 Conference private_conferences	10 Veterans Day holidays	11
12	13 Orders orders	14	15	16	17 Conference private_conferences	18
19	20 Orders orders	21	22	23 Thanksgiving Day holidays	24	25
26	27 Brown v. U.S. (22-6389) oral_arguments	28 McElrath v. Georgia (22-721) oral_arguments Wilkinson v. Garland (22-666) oral_arguments	29 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy (22-859) oral_arguments	30

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16	17 Orders orders	18	19 Juneteenth holidays	20 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	21 Opinions opinions	22
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