Opinions This Week
The Court will be issuing opinions in one or more argued cases both tomorrow and Wednesday. There’ll be an Order List today.
February 2005 Archive
Every post published in February 2005, most recent first.
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Order List — Four Grants; One CVSG
Here is today’s Order List. The Court granted certiorari in four cases and asked for the SG’s views in another. Still no word on the four petitions challenging the constitutionality of the recess appointment of Judge Pryor.
Court agrees to hear four cases
The Supreme Court on Monday granted review of four cases, one on the free-speech rights of public employees, one on state taxes on gasoline sold by Indian tribes to their customers, and two on jurisdictional issues.
Today’s News – Monday, Feb. 28, 2005
On Sunday The L.A. Times had this editorial piece on Chief Justice Rehnquist’s legacy. UPI’s Michael Kirkland has this article in The Washington Times discussing opinions and oral arguments from last week.
Tuesday’s Argument in Exxon v. Allapattah Services and Ortega v. Star-Kist Foods
Tuesday, in the consolidated argument of Exxon Corp. v. Allapattah Services, Inc. and Ortega v. Star-Kist Foods, Inc., the Court will take another swing at deciding whether 28 U.S.C. § 1367 (the supplemental jurisdiction statute) allows a federal court with diversity jurisdiction over a claim exceeding the jurisdictional amount to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over related claims that do not.
Jose Padilla ordered released — or charged
This is a followup to the Supreme Court’s rulings on June 28, 2004, in Rumsfeld v. Padilla and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld.
Tomorrow’s Argument In Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line
I’m arguing this case tomorrow at the Court. The question is the extent to which Title III of the Americans With Disabilities Act applies to cruise ships, and foreign-flagged cruise ships in particular.
Today’s News – Friday, Feb. 25, 2005
Tom Perrotta has this article in New York Law Journal discussing the Court’s opinions in Blakely and Booker. Ann Woolner has this opinion piece in Bloomberg on Gonzales v. Oregon, in which the Court granted cert. on Tuesday.
City of Evanston v. Franklin
As Tom previously noted, we filed a brief in opposition to certiorari today in No. 04-856, City of Evanston v. Franklin.
Double Jeopardy Violated by Reversal of Midtrial Acquittal
The Court on Tuesday announced its decision in Smith v. Massachusetts, vacating a state conviction on Double Jeopardy grounds where the judge reversed a midtrial ruling of insufficiency of the evidence on one count.