Court issues orders
on Feb 16, 2007 at 1:06 pm
The Supreme Court on Friday granted permission for the federal government to take part in oral argument in three cases. The Orders List can be found here; these are the only orders to be released until Tuesday, Feb. 20, on matters acted upon at the Friday Conference.
Under the orders issued Friday, the Solicitor General will be offering the government’s views in Microsoft v. AT&T (05-1056), a software code dispute under patent law; being argued Feb. 21; in Scott v. Harris (05-1631), on police liability for injuries in a high-speed chase, being argued Feb. 26, and in Winkelman v. Parma City School District (05-983), on parents’ right to act as their own attorney in a case involving a disabled child’s right to education benefits, being argued Feb. 27.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., is recused from the Microsoft case.
