Every post published in December 2014, most recent first.
On this last day of 2014, here’s the Court-related news, briefly: Jessica Gresko of the Associated Press (via Yahoo! News) reports that Bobby Chen, the pro se petitioner in Chen v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, still cannot be found; the deadline for him to file his opening brief was December 22, but the Court has not yet received it.
The Supreme Court is moving toward a full and free-access system for all documents filed in cases before the Justices — a system expected to be working “as soon as 2016,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., revealed in his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary.
As 2014 draws to a close, coverage of the Court looks ahead at cases that will or may be before the Court in 2015.
Briefly: At PrawfsBlawg, Steve Vladeck discusses the amicus brief that he filed on behalf of former officials of the Department of Health and Human Services in Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, in which the Court will consider whether the Supremacy Clause gives Medicaid providers a private
State officials in North Carolina plan to ask the Supreme Court to sort out a dispute among lower courts on state power to require doctors to perform ultrasound tests while delivering an anti-abortion message to pregnant women before an abortion can occur.
UPDATED Tuesday 11:58 a.m. Oklahoma and five other states where the federal government operates insurance marketplaces have filed a brief in the granted case of King v. Burwell, supporting the challenge to tax credits for those shopping at the federal exchanges.
UPDATED Tuesday 3:43 p.m. The Supreme Court’s electronic docket now confirms that the four Sixth Circuit cases have been distributed to the Justices for consideration at the January 9 Conference. The docket numbers are 14-556, 14-562, 14-571 and 14-574.
The Supreme Court will hold oral argument on the next major legal battle over the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday, March 4, at the end of the February-March sitting, the Court disclosed on Monday with the release of that argument calendar.
Last week Nebraska and Oklahoma asked the Justices to allow them to file a lawsuit seeking to block part of Colorado’s scheme for the legalization of marijuana.
The Supreme Court has stepped into the center of a divisive issue: whether, consistent with the First Amendment, states that elect some or all of their judges may prohibit the candidates from directly soliciting campaign funds.