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June 2013 Archive
Every post published in June 2013, most recent first.
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New same-sex marriage challenge fails
Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy turned down at midday Sunday a request to stop same-sex marriages from occurring in California. Without comment, and without seeking views from the other side, Kennedy rejected a challenge to action by the Ninth Circuit Court on Friday implementing a federal judge’s ruling allowing such marriages.
October Term 2012 summary memo
For several years now, SCOTUSblog has been producing a memorandum at the conclusion of each Term that summarizes key statistical trends at the Court. This year’s summary memo is now ready, and you can find the five-page document here.
The Chief Justice’s remarks to the Fourth Circuit
The Chief Justice participated today in the Fourth Circuit judicial conference. (The video from C-SPAN is at this link (he appears towards the end): http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/CourtChie.) His remarks were very well received. For practitioners, I thought three points were most interesting.
Emergency stay of California same-sex marriages sought (updated 6:05pm)
Attorneys for the parties who sought to defend Proposition 8 in federal court have filed an emergency motion in the Supreme Court seeking to block same-sex marriages from proceeding in California. The filing (via Jess Bravin) is available here.
Friday round-up
Court watchers continue to focus on Wednesday’s same-sex marriage decisions: Hollingsworth v. Perry, in which the Court held that the sponsors of California’s ban on same-sex marriage lacked standing to defend the initiative on appeal, and United States v. Windsor, in which the Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
A view from Alabama
John Neiman is the Alabama Solicitor General. Like many of you, I spent most of my Tuesday working on cases that were not at the Supreme Court. But from time to time, I found a spare moment to glance through my office window, to look out over the Montgomery church where Dr. King once was pastor, and to think about Shelby County v. Holder.
Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference Term Review on C-SPAN
At 9 a.m. Eastern on Saturday, June 29, the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference will host a panel discussion about the 2012 Term. Following the panel discussion, Chief Justice John Roberts will speak with Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson about the Court and the Constitution.
Marriage benefits start for same-sex spouses
The federal government’s Office of Personnel Management on Friday issued orders to federal agencies to move rapidly to extend benefits available to married federal workers and retirees to those who have legally married their gay or lesbian partners — the first effort to carry out the Supreme Court decision Wednesday striking down a benefit ban in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
Actions on Baby Veronica, birth control mandate
Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and a federal district judge in Oklahoma took actions on Friday that moved along two cases the blog discussed yesterday — the Baby Veronica case (see this post) and the case involved the federal health care law’s contraceptive insurance mandate (see this post).