Monday round-up

Briefly:

• As Lyle reported for this blog onThursday, Noel Canning the bottling company that successfully challenged the Presidents 2012 appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in the D.C. Circuit has joined the administration in urging the Court to take up this case; atCrime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger discusses Noel Cannings request and examines the additional question presented that Noel Canning has proposed.
• Buzzfeeds Chris Geidner discusses the prospect that, if the Court does not strike down Californias Proposition 8 on Equal Protection Clause grounds in Hollingsworth v. Perry, supporters of same-sex marriage could quickly hit a roadblock thirty state constitutional amendments that ban same-sex marriage.
• At theblogof Ogletree Deakins, John Martin summarizes the Courts recent decision inCity of Arlington v. FCC, in which the Justices held thatChevrondeference applies to an agencys interpretation of an ambiguous statute that concerns the scope of the agencys jurisdiction.
• Finally, atthis blog, Amy Howe reports that the Solicitor General has filed four briefs in cases that will be considered at the Courts June 13 Conference. These briefs recommend that cert. be granted in one of the cases,Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. v. Hoeper,but denied in the other three.

[Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys work for or contribute to this blog in various capacities, served as co-counsel to the petitioners inCity of Arlington v. FCC.In addition, the firmis among the counsel to the respondent inAir Wisconsin, andTejinder Singh of Goldstein & Russell is among the counsel on anamicusbrief filed by international human rights advocates in support of the respondents inHollingsworth v. Perry.]

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