Every post published in June 2007, most recent first.
Concluding the Term, the Supreme Court decided three cases today: the opinion in the school cases is here; the Panetti opinion is here; and the Leegin Creative opinion is here. During this morning’s session, Jason provided live updates from the Court in this post.
The Justice Department on Thursday urged the D.C. Circuit to resist a plea that it sit en banc and overturn its recent ruling putting an end to Guantanamo Bay detainees’ habeas challenges to their confinement.
The Supreme Court will not hold a public session today, but at 10 a.m., it will release the final Orders List of the Term. After that, the Court will be in recess until the new Term opens on Monday, Oct. 1. We will post the orders promptly after their release today.
The final Order List is here.
The following commentary is from Andrew Pincus, a partner in Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP, who filed an amicus brief for the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. The views expressed are his own.
UPDATE to 12:50 p.m. In a startling turn of events in the legal combat over the war on terrorism, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to reconsider the appeals in the Guantanamo Bay detainee cases. It vacated its April 2 order denying review of the two packets of cases.
Today’s order granting rehearing in the consolidated cases is here. On February 20, the D.C. Circuit Court issued a 2-1 ruling against the detainees, available here. The original petition for certiorari in Boumediene, filed March 5, is here, and Al Odah is here.
Below are the questions presented from the original petitions for certiorari in Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195) and Al Odah v. U.S. (06-1196). Click here for more materials from the two detainee cases, which the Court this morning said it will consider next term, and here for Lyle’s analysis.
The following post is from Michael E. Rosman, General Counsel, Center for Individual Rights. CIR submitted an amicus brief in the Seattle schools case. I’d like to briefly comment on the dissents and some of the points made by others on this site concerning the school decisions. 1.
Co-authored by Adam Chandler.