Thursday round-up

By Amy Howe
on Sep 10, 2015 at 9:28 am

Briefly:

• In the Supreme Court Brief (subscription required), Tony Mauro reports that, over their summer recess, the Justices “fanned out across the globe,” with their public appearances “yield[ing] new insights into their personalities and the workings of the court.”
• At the Civil Procedure and Federal Courts Blog, Patricia Moore responds to a post by Wen Fa at the Pacific Legal Foundation’s Liberty Blog (which in turn responds to a column by Linda Greenhouse in The New York Times) on Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, in which the Court will hear oral argument in November; she contends that the Liberty Blog post manages “to mischaracterize the complaint in Spokeo, to flip constitutional standing on its head, and to assert that wealthier is always better.”
• More recently at the Liberty Blog, Reed Hopper discusses the likelihood that the Court will take on the question whether wetlands delineations by the Army Corps of Engineers on private property may be challenged directly in court; he urges the Court to “grant[] review and affirm[] a commonsense application of the law that allows landowners the right to challenge illegal government claims of jurisdiction over private lands under the Clean Water Act.”

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