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The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Caperton, et al., v. A.T. Massey Coal Co., et al. (08-322) at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. Theodore B. Olson of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington will argue for Hugh Caperton and the Harman group of companies.
The Justices are scheduled to hold a private conference this morning, any grants from which could be announced this afternoon. We will provide coverage of any developments. To view our list of petitions to watch at Friday’s conference, click here.
This edition of “Petitions to Watch” features cases up for consideration at the Justices’ private conference on March 6. As always, the list contains the petitions on the Court’s paid docket that Tom has deemed to have a reasonable chance of being granted.
Stanford Law School student John Dalton previews one of the cases to be heard by the Court next week. 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(1)(A)(iii) provides that if an individual possesses a firearm during the commission of a “crime of violence or drug trafficking crime,” and “if the firearm is discharged” then
A federal grand jury in Peoria, Ill., has charged a Qatari national held in the U.S. with terrorism crimes, and the Justice Department said Friday it will ask the Supreme Court to dismiss the prisoner’s pending appeal, now set for a hearing April 27.
Erica Goldberg discusses Tuesday’s argument in Carlsbad Technology. The Court engaged in a lively discussion during the February 24 oral argument in Carlsbad Technology, Inc. v. HIF Bio, Inc., as they debated how to resolve the jurisdictional dilemma presented.
The Obama Administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon to end the case of an individual captured and held in the U.S. as a terrorism suspect, but did not tell the Court that it is abandoning the claim that it has power to do so.
Lawyers for 20 detainees at Guantanamo Bay who have been ordered released complained directly to President Obama on Thursday that the men are still being held without any reliable prospect of freedom, and that at least two of them continue to be mistreated.
At oral argument yesterday in Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the petitioner’s counsel was in the enviable position of spending most of his argument debating just how big his victory in the case should be.
The American Civil Liberties Union, citing news stories, reported Thursday that the Justice Department will shortly file terrorism charges and hold a trial in civilian court of a Qatari national, Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri — the only detainee taken prisoner in the U.S. and still being held in this country.