Every post published in November 2012, most recent first.
This the fourth and final article in the series explaining the constitutional controversy, now awaiting the Supreme Court’s attention, over same-sex marriage. The Court is scheduled to take its first look at that issue at its private Conference this morning.
In a year in which the Court has already weighed in on the constitutionality of both the Affordable Care Act and Arizona’s controversial immigration law, heard oral arguments in a challenge to the use of affirmative action by public universities, and announced that it will soon consider the
Thursday’s coverage of the Court focused on the ten same-sex marriage petitions that the Justices are scheduled to consider at their Conference today. The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, USA Today, ABC News, CBS News, and The Hill have general coverage of the issues.
At their Conference today, the Justices will consider petitions raising federal constitutional issues related to same-sex marriage. These are the most significant cases these nine Justices have ever considered, and probably that they will ever decide.
There is a perennial fascination that flows with every new presidential administration in recent decades: when will the president get to fill a Supreme Court vacancy, and whose seat will it be? In Washington, this speculation is already well underway.
Although the question presented in U.S. Airways v. McCutchen is facially one of statutory interpretation, the case fundamentally turns on which traditional theory of liability is most analogous to an ERISA reimbursement claim.
The Supreme Court, after taking most of the day to prepare new orders, took no action Friday on the ten same-sex marriage pleas now on the docket. It did agree to rule on whether taking a human gene out of the body for research is a process that can be patented.
This is the third of four articles explaining the constitutional controversy, now awaiting the Supreme Court’s attention, over same-sex marriage. The Court is scheduled to consider ten petitions on that issue at its private Conference tomorrow.
The Court heard argument yesterday in Henderson v. United States, in which it considered whether appellate courts reviewing for plain error in criminal cases should consider the state of the law at the time of appeal or at the time of trial.
John Elwood reviews Monday’s relisted and held cases. This year, Thanksgiving seemed but a brief prelude to the days that really mattered – Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Still-Somehow-Without-A-Silly-Name Sunday, and Cyber Monday – when hundreds of millions of Americans flocked to stores, real and virtual, to take advantage of great deals on the staples of modern life.