Every post published in August 2007, most recent first.
The Supreme Court on Friday released the third and final list of summer orders on pending matters. There were no grants of review in any new cases. The next orders, probably including grants, are expected on Sept. 24 or 25 after the opening Conference of the new Term.
UPDATED 6:45 p.m. The Supreme Court on Wednesday released the calendar of oral arguments for the November sitting (which actually begins on Oct. 29). It can be downloaded here. On two of the six days, the Court will hear only a single case each. On other days, there will be two arguments.
From Professor Rory Little at UC Hastings College of the Law: I recently produced these Summaries of the Supreme Court’s Term, Criminal Cases, for the ABA’s Annual Meeting panel of the same name. (Note: Readers should feel free to reproduce the summaries, with attribution.)
On Friday the Solicitor General filed this amicus brief expressing the government’s view that cert. should be granted in No. 06-937, Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. The petition, which was filed by Maureen Mahoney of Latham & Watkins, presents the question whether “a patentee’s
The Court will issue its third and final round of summer orders on Friday. The blog will post anything of interest that appears on the Orders List. Top side briefs are due today in Riegel v. Medtronic (06-179). No bottom side briefs are due this week.
According to reports, current Solicitor General Paul Clement will replace Alberto Gonzales as Acting Attorney General when Gonzales leaves his post on September 17; CNBC is also reporting here that he is a frontrunner to be nominated by President Bush as Gonzales’s official replacement.
Commentary UPDATED 6 p.m. Smart, seasoned, energetic advocate of some of the Bush Administration’s most controversial legal positions — an apt description of U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, who takes over temporarily as Attorney General, and also of Deputy Solicitor Gregory G. Garre, who seems likely to assume at least temporarily the duties of Solicitor General.
Today is the deadline for top-side briefs in the detainee cases. Mayer, Brown is very helpfully posting links to all of them here. [UPDATE: The brief in Boumediene is here. Note that the Boumediene case is not limited to the habeas question.
Lawyers for detainees at Guantanamo Bay filed merits briefs today in Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195) and Al Odah v. United States (06-1196). The brief in Boumediene is here, and click here and here to read the petitioners’ briefs in Al Odah.
The U.S. Court of Military Commission Review, the tribunal set up by Congress to hear appeals in war crimes prosecutions, will hold its first hearing on its first case on Friday.