Every post published in October 2013, most recent first.
In her column for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse uses recent comments by Judge Richard Posner about his decision upholding Indiana’s voter identification law (which the Court, in an opinion by now-retired Justice John Paul Stevens, affirmed) as a jumping-off point to discuss how judges –
The Court ventures once again into the class-action debate next month, when it hears arguments in Mississippi v. AU Optronics Corp. This time, the Justices confront the Class Action Fairness Act of 2001 (the “CAFA”), which allows defendants to remove to federal court large class actions filed in state court.
In response to a request from the Supreme Court, yesterday the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a 2011 state law regulating medical abortions is sufficiently broad in scope that it would “effectively ban[]” all medical abortions in the state.
Geoffrey Rapp is the Harold A. Anderson Professor of Law and Values at University of Toledo College of Law Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) enacted a protective scheme for workers terminated for blowing the whistle on corporate and securities fraud.
William Baude will be the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago beginning next year. During its October sitting, the Court heard oral arguments in cases involving venue and personal jurisdiction.
At its November 1, 2013 Conference, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as the standing of an objecting class member to challenge a class-certification order, determining qualified immunity based on law at the time of the alleged wrong, and whether a suspect who expresses his desire to go home unequivocally and unambiguously invokes his Miranda rights.
Yesterday the National Portrait Gallery unveiled a new life-sized portrait of the four female Justices. Tony Mauro reports on the event, which included remarks by artist Nelson Shanks, for the Blog of Legal Times.
The Federal Circuit may be in for another hard day at the Court when the Justices hear argument next week in Medtronic v. Boston Scientific Corp. At issue in the case is who bears the burden of persuasion when a user of technology files suit against a patent-holder, seeking a declaratory judgment that its actions do not infringe a particular patent.
The importance of the health care case and being the forty-sixth Solicitor General of the United States.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled today that a 2011 state law — now awaiting review by the Supreme Court — is so broad that it would outlaw all abortions done with medications, rather than surgery.