After Seattle/Louisville: The Ball Is In Our Court
The following commentary is by Goodwin Liu, a law professor at UC Berkeley specializing in constitutional law, education policy, and the Supreme Court.
July 2007 Archive
Every post published in July 2007, most recent first.
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Chief Justice leaves Maine hospital
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., left a medical center in Rockport, Maine, at 1l:15 Tuesday morning, and returned to his summer home. An Associated Press online video showed the smiling Roberts walking at a rapid pace out of the Penobscot Bay Medical Center, waving once to onlookers, then getting into a sport utility vehicle.
Round-Up
The Washington Post has a particularly detailed article on Chief Justice John Roberts’ seizure yesterday, including information on his prior episode and interviews with neurologists.
Academic Round-Up
This week, I am back to posting primarily legal scholarship about the Supreme Court and the cases decided this past Term. As I think I have noted before, I sometimes post papers with which I disagree because I think they will be of interest to our readership.
This Week on the Blog
Tomorrow the Court is expected to issue its first orders of the summer. Among the matters that may be included are actions on rehearing petitions, perhaps including those in Hamdan v. Gates (No. 06-1169), a war crimes commission case, and Rita v. U.S. (No. 06-5754), a Sentencing Guidelines case.
Summer orders list released
UPDATE: The Orders Lists can be found here. The Supreme Court on Monday issued the first of its summer Orders Lists, consisting mainly of denials of rehearing. The only argued case denied rehearing was Schriro v. Landrigan (05-1575).
Court issues October argument calendar
The Supreme Court on Monday released the argument calendar for its opening sitting beginning on Oct. 1, the first day of the new Term. Several key cases among those granted review will be heard in this session — two Sentencing Guidelines cases, a major case on third-party liability for securities fraud, a significant test of presidential power in implementing treaties, and two election law cases.
Round-Up
A recent poll, conducted by the Washington Post and ABC News, finds that an increasing number of Americans believe that the Supreme Court has become “too conservative.” Read the Post article on the survey here and the ABC News story on it here.
Fourth Circuit acts in Al-Marri case
The Fourth Circuit Court on Monday ordered lawyers for Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri to respond by Aug. 15 to the Bush Administration’s request for en banc review of the Circuit Court ruling rejecting the President’s authority to order the capture and detention within the U.S. of a civilian foreign national.
Circuit Court bars detainee transfer
The D.C. Circuit Court on Monday afternoon temporarily blocked the federal government from transferring a Guantanamo Bay detainee to his home country, Algeria.