Massachusetts parents’ school plea denied
The Supreme Court turned aside on Monday an effort by parents of public school children in Lynn, Mass., to reopen their case against a student assignment plan.
July 2006 Archive
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Opinion Round-Up
There has been a lot of heated point-counterpoint in the major news outlets and the blogosphere over several different legal issues during the last two days.
A move to salvage a big antitrust case
A newly filed antitrust appeal to the Supreme Court, a significant test of the proof needed to show below-cost pricing to try to drive out a competitor, has been taken off the Court’s docket because it was not filed before a deadline.
Analysis: a significant, initial victory for Rep. Jefferson
The D.C. Circuit Court on Friday gave a Louisiana congressman a significant, initial victory in his constitutional feud with the Justice Department over materials seized from his Capitol Hill office during a bribery investigation search.
New Cert Petition
Today we filed the attached petition (and appendix) presenting the following question: When police conduct an illegal search and use the fruits of the search to secure a warrant, does the “good faith exception” to the exclusionary rule apply to the fruits of the second search?
The Status of Legal Blogs
SCOTUSblog’s own Lyle Denniston has published a piece in the Chapman Law Journal entitled, “Legal Blogs: The Search for Legitimacy.” The article can be found online here.
A role for courts on presidential statements
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican, would provide a significant role for the Supreme Court and lower courts in reaction to statements that Presidents make in signing new legislation into law.
Round-Up
This New York Times story details the new White House bill that proposes a system to try detainees at Guantanamo.
D.C. Circuit to weigh Hamdan impact
After a considerable delay, the D.C. Circuit Court has asked lawyers involved in two packets of war-on-terrorism cases to file new briefs on how those cases are affected by the Supreme Court’s June 29 ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (05-184).
Bush Administration Response to Hamdan
Over on Balkinization, I’ve linked to a draft of the legislation that the Bush Administration is considering in response to Hamdan. As I note over there, it’s fair to assume it’s a work in progress.