Every post published in September 2006, most recent first.
On April 24, the Supreme Court asked for the views of the Solicitor General in the matter Microsoft v. AT&T (05-1056), an important IP case dealing with patents on software code. The government has just filed this amicus brief supporting a cert. grant (Microsoft’s petition can be found here).
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the Guantanamo Bay detainee whose case led to what may be the most important Supreme Court decision in history on war powers, has a chance to make even more history.
Term previews galore: Edward Lazarus of Akin Gump highlights Justice Kennedy’s role on the Court in an article here at Findlaw. James Vicini of Reuters highlights the term’s abortion and race cases here.
To complete our coverage of today’s grants handed down by the Court, we are now making available every brief that has been filed in all of the cases added to the Court’s docket earlier today – cert. petitions, briefs in opposition (BIOs), reply briefs, even amici filings.
More news articles about yesterday’s grants: Charles Lane of the Washington Post discusses the union fees grants here. Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times also discusses those cases here. Tony Mauro weighs in on the WEA cases here at the First Amendment Center.
The docket numbers of today’s grants are (with links to the petitions or the questions presented where available): 05-1345 05-1508 05-1575 05-1589, 05-1657 (consol.) 05-1629 06-84, 06-100 (consol.) 06-102 06-116 05-1272 Tom’s list of cases that he thought had a reasonable chance going in to today can be found here.
UPDATE: The Supreme Court, in a later order, set up expedited briefing schedules in 05-1272, Rockwell International v. U.S., and 05-1629, Gonzales v. Duenas-Alvarez (05-1629).
We have compiled a list of the questions presented in all granted cases; the list can be downloaded here. Continue checking back with us this afternoon as we make available the complete set of Supreme Court filings in the cases granted today.
[Update] Scott Nelson has a post here at the new Consumer Law and Policy Blog discussing the cases granted dealing with the FCPA Here is an AP wire story regarding the cert. grant in the credit reporting cases.
In certain previous Terms, Tom has identified the group of cert. petitions that had a reasonable chance of being granted cert. for a column called “Conference Call” that ran in the Legal Times and other American Lawyer Media publications. “Conference Call” typically featured a detailed analysis of