Every post published in May 2014, most recent first.
Arguing that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is in conflict with itself over gay rights issues, Idaho’s governor on Friday asked that court to put the state’s same-sex marriage appeal on a faster track.
Briefly: With the end of June and the Justices’ summer recess now just a month away, Ilya Shapiro previews the last few weeks of the Term at Cato at Liberty and provides his predictions for some of the remaining high-profile cases.
John Elwood reviews Tuesday’s relisted cases. Greetings Court fans, and welcome back to another edition of Relist Watch. As (both) our regular readers are well aware, we here at Relist Watch are hustlers, not ballplayers, but we still work hard not to throw wide of the mark.
In 1991, Professor Bill Eskridge published a landmark empirical study showing that Congress frequently overrode the Supreme Court’s statutory interpretation decisions.
From time to time (as it did two Mondays ago and again this week), the Court will invite the Solicitor General to file a brief expressing the views of the United States on cases in which petitions for certiorari have been filed.
Just over four years after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the British oil giant BP PLC asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to put on hold lower court rulings that it contends would mandate hundreds of millions of dollars in unconstitutional payments on damage claims.
We are happy to present the next edition of our October Term 2013 Stat Pack. As the Court turns the corner into the last month of the Term, several key trends are beginning to reveal themselves. You can view the Stat Pack in its entirety here.
Coverage of and commentary on Tuesday’s orders and opinions continue. In The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin covers the decision in Hall v. Florida, in which the Court held unconstitutional Florida’s requirement that defendants facing the death penalty show an IQ test score of 70 or below before being permitted to submit additional evidence regarding their intellectual disability.
At its Conference on May 29, 2014, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as the preclusive effect of alternative holdings, preemption of state law nuisance claims under the Clean Air Act, and protection for journalists subpoenaed to reveal the identity of confidential sources.
If Memorial Day is the unofficial start to summer, the day after Memorial Day appeared to be the unofficial start of the home stretch for the Justices, who issued orders (along with a per curiam opinion) and four opinions in argued cases yesterday morning.