Every post published in July 2008, most recent first.
In this week’s academic round-up, I would like to profile some articles from an online journal, the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, that has done a particularly good job of providing timely analysis of recent Supreme Court decisions.
Below, Kevin Russell of Howe & Russell previews next term’s Pacific Bell Telephone Co.,dba AT&T California v. linkLine Communications (07-512). Please note that the SCOTUSwiki for linkLine, here, will continue to be updated throughout the upcoming term. Background 1.
Lawyers for a group of non-union public employees challenging the spending of their security fees on litigation outside their bargaining unit have asked the Court to deny the Solicitor General’s request for divided argument in Locke v. Karass (07-610).
One of the Guantanamo Bay detainees facing war crimes charges claiming direct roles in the Sept. 11/ 2001, terrorist attacks — Ramzi bin al-Shibh — has asked a federal judge to block his trial before a military commission.
A copy of today’s orders list is now available here.
The Supreme Court, issuing its first round of summer orders, took no action on Monday on a request to reconsider its ruling in Kennedy v. Louisiana (07-343), barring the death penalty for the crime of child rape.
The Supreme Court on Monday released the schedule of oral arguments for the sitting beginning Monday, Nov. 3. The calendar can be found here. On three of the five days on the calendar, the Court will hear three cases each; morning arguments begin at 10 a.m., afternoon at 1 p.m.
In a new sequel to the Supreme Court’s ruling that for the first time allowed a ban on a method of abortion, the Fourth Circuit Court agreed on Monday to reconsider the constitutionality of Virginia’s five-year-old prohibition on abortion by the so-called “partial-birth” method.
The Justice Department, in a bold legal maneuver, on Monday afternoon asked the Supreme Court to rehear a major case on the death penalty, saying the basis of the decision had been “undermined.” The decision at issue was the 5-4 ruling on June 25 in Kennedy v. Louisiana (07-343), barring the death penalty for the crime of raping a child.
UPDATE Tuesday morning. The case has been assigned docket number 08-1289, before District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina. Dick Anthony Heller, the security guard with a desire to have a gun in his Washington, D.C., home who won the right to do so from the Supreme Court, returned to federal court on Monday with a claim that his new-found right has already been violated.