At its Conference on March 28, 2014, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as the proof required to justify removal to federal court, the scope of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board’s review of claims, and the level of detail required for False Claims Act complaints.
At its Conference on March 21, 2014, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as qualified immunity from Fourth Amendment liability, the constitutionality of a state statute authorizing state judges to arbitrate business disputes, and the applicability of public accommodations statute to wedding photographer opposed to same-sex marriage.
At its Conference on March 7, 2014, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as regulation of lewd expression in the public schools, whether Congress may confer standing to sue when the plaintiff suffers no concrete injury, employees’ personal liability under the Fair Labor Standards Act, and unwritten promises to defendants in exchange for guilty pleas.
At its Conference on February 28, 2014, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as “trade or business” status under ERISA, the time limitation in Section 13 of the Securities Act, whether state wage rates supersede collectively-bargained wage rates, and whether campaign contributions are bribery absent an “explicit” quid pro quo.
At its Conference on February 21, 2014, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as rights of eighteen- to twenty-year-olds under the Second Amendment, police use of nontrivial force against a passively resisting arrestee, Federal Power Act requirements for interstate
At its Conference on January 24, 2014, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as a civil court’s resolution of a church property dispute, a motion for new trial based on juror dishonesty in voir dire, qualified immunity from Fourth Amendment liability, and the effect of state abatement rules on Section 1983 claims.
At its Conference on January 17, 2014, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as a governor’s reduction of a state’s unionized workforce, a rail carrier’s challenge to state tax exemptions for its competitors, and a patent infringement claim against a software manufacturer.
The petition of the day is: Soverain Software LLC v. Newegg Inc. 13-477 Issue: Whether the Federal Circuit’s effective redefinition of obviousness as a pure question of law, allowing it to resolve disputed factual questions in the first instance on appeal, violates the Seventh Amendment and this Court’s precedent.
At its Conference on January 10, 2014, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as whether streaming live television is a “public performance,” class certification for a products liability class, a state law prohibiting abortions after twenty weeks, and Lanham Act claims arising from juice labels.
At its December 13, 2013 Conference, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as secondary liability for supporting terrorist organizations under the Anti-Terrorism Act, a tribe’s eminent domain powers over a corporation located on tribal land, sanctions for violating the
At its December 6, 2013 Conference, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as the constitutionality of reviewing the contents of a cellphone without a warrant, whether computer-implemented inventions are patent eligible, and proximate causation under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
At its November 26, 2013 Conference, the Court will consider petitions seeking review of issues such as a state’s residency requirement for ballot access petitions, the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, states’ taxing power over out-of-state Internet retailers, and claims against municipalities under the Federal Wiretap Act.