Every post published in June 2009, most recent first.
We represent the petitioners in two cases that were granted yesterday, No. 08-645, Abbott v. Abbott, and No. 08-1200, Jerman v. Carlisle. In Abbott, the Court will construe the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, to which the United States is a party.
Please note that Howe & Russell filed an amicus brief in this case on behalf of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, National Fair Housing Alliance, and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. in support of the petitioner.
Exxon Mobil Corp. and its oil tanker subsidiary notified lawyers for fishermen and others harmed by the massive Alaska oil spill 20 years ago that on Wednesday it will pay them $470,268,908, but returned to a federal court to continue a fight over another $54.5 million.
It’s always perilous to try and generalize about a Supreme Court Term. Roughly 80 cases on diverse topics decided by nine different people don’t collectively produce clear themes.
UPDATE 4:08 p.m. Republican Norm Coleman on Tuesday afternoon ended his fight for reelection to the U.S. Senate, bowing to a decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court that his opponent, Democrat Al Franken, had won the most votes and was entitled to enter the Senate. “The [state] Supreme Court has made its decision and I will abide by the results,” Coleman told reporters in St. Paul, the Associated Press reported.
As updated below in the Super StatPack, our annual summary memo of statistics from OT08 is available here. We welcome any citation, republishing, or repurposing of these facts and figures. We ask that you acknowledge SCOTUSblog as the source.
At 10 a.m. on Monday, the Court will release orders from the Justices’ private conference last Thursday. The final three opinions from pending cases are also expected to be released. We will provide instant coverage of all decisions via our LiveBlog.
At 10 a.m. EDT, the Court will release the orders from the Justices’ private conference last Thursday. The outstanding opinions in pending cases are expected to be released. We will LiveBlog the public session.
Here (as one file) are all of our stats, charts, lists, and observations about the just-concluded Term and here are visual representations of the voting lineups in each decision.
Beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern, we will provide “live” coverage of the Court’s release of opinions and orders. In the “LiveBlog” below, we will relay all developments as quickly as possible. We will post links to the slip opinions as soon as they are available.