Every post published in March 2015, most recent first.
Yesterday the Court heard oral argument in Brumfield v. Cain, a capital case from Louisiana. Lyle Denniston covered the oral argument for this blog, with other coverage coming from Edward Lee at ISCOTUSnow, who predicts the winner in the case based on the number of questions for both sides at oral argument.
Under gentle pressure from the Supreme Court not to split up the argument on single questions, the legal teams supporting same-sex marriage have settled on one lawyer to present each issue.
The transcript in Commil USA, LLC v. Cisco Systems, Inc. is here. The transcript in Kimble v. Marvel Enterprises, Inc. is here.
Oyez has posted audio recordings of last week’s arguments. The Court heard arguments last week in: City and County of San Francisco v. Sheehan Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. Bank of America v. Caulkett Michigan v. Environmental Protection Agency
Briefly: In the Los Angeles Times, David Savage looks at a case that the Justices considered at their Conference last week, asking “whether a school official’s fear of violence justified disciplining students for wearing American flags on their shirts.” At Slate, Judith Schaeffer looks back at
The last day of the March argument calendar presents the Justices with two consumer bankruptcy cases. The second case is Bullard v. Blue Hills Bank, which presents a basic fact pattern doubtless repeated in tens (if not hundreds of thousands) of bankruptcy filings this decade: a bankrupt homeowner, whose home indisputably is worth far less than the mortgage that burdens it, with few other significant debts.
Analysis The Supreme Court, supposedly, is an appeals court set up to decide issues of law, and should not have to spend its hours — no, its days — getting familiar with a factual record that may run into many volumes.
The cause of electronic privacy gained a bit in the Supreme Court on Monday as the Justices ruled that it is a search, subject to constitutional challenge, when police install a monitoring device on an individual’s body to track movements after being convicted of a crime.
The Court closes out the last day of its March argument session with the second of a pair of bankruptcy cases, Harris v. Viegelahn.
The transcript in Brumfield v. Cain is here.