Thursday round-up

At CNN, Kaitlan Collins and others report that US Solicitor General Noel Francisco is expected to resign from his role as the government’s top lawyer before the Supreme Court in the coming days.” For The New York Times, Katie Benner reports that Mr. Franciscos top deputy, Jeff Wall, will most likely step in as acting solicitor general as the White House searches for a replacement.

Briefly:

• Amy Howe reports at Howe on the Court that this year the justices June 25 conference is likely to yield at least three new merits cases for the term beginning next October, in cases in which the federal government has recommended that the court grant review[; p]erhaps coincidentally, issues relating to international law and foreign relations run through all three of the cases.
• In a video at CPR Speaks, Russ Bleemer and others discuss the courts recently declining to hear a California Supreme Court case on arbitration and unconscionability, OTO LLC v. Kho.
• In an op-ed at The Daily Journal, Glenn Roper finds it troubling that, in Financial Oversight Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC, in which the court upheld the structure of Puerto Rico’s Financial Oversight and Management Board, no justice took issue with the 1st Circuits application of the de facto officer doctrine.
• At the Duke Center for Firearms Laws Second Thoughts blog, Jake Charles looks at Justice Samuel Alitos dissent from the Supreme Courts per curiam decision dismissingNew York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New Yorkas moot, as well as Alitos opinions in other cases throughout the years, for clues about the types of cases in which hes likely to vote to grant cert or vote for an expansive interpretation of the right to keep and bear arms.

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