Docket No. | Op. Below | Argument | Opinion | Vote | Author | Term |
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13-719 | 10th Cir. | Oct 7, 2014 | Dec 15, 2014 | 5-4 | Ginsburg | OT 2014 |
Holding: A defendant’s notice of removal of a case from state to federal court need include only a plausible allegation that the amount in controversy exceeds the jurisdictional threshold; it does not need to contain evidentiary submissions.
Judgment: Reversed, 5-4, in an opinion by Justice Ginsburg on December 15, 2014. Justice Scalia filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Kennedy and Justice Kagan joined, and which Justice Thomas joined as to all but the last sentence. Justice Thomas also filed a dissenting opinion.
Date | Proceedings and Orders |
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Dec 13 2013 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 16, 2014) |
Dec 19 2013 | Waiver of right of respondent Brandon W. Owens to respond filed. |
Jan 8 2014 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 24, 2014. |
Jan 8 2014 | Response Requested . (Due February 7, 2014) |
Jan 27 2014 | Order extending time to file response to petition to and including February 21, 2014. |
Feb 7 2014 | Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. |
Feb 21 2014 | Brief of respondent Brandon W. Owens in opposition filed. |
Mar 4 2014 | Reply of petitioners Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Company, LLC, et al. filed. |
Mar 12 2014 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of March 28, 2014. |
Mar 31 2014 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of April 4, 2014. |
Apr 7 2014 | Motion for leave to file amicus brief filed by Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America GRANTED. |
Apr 7 2014 | Petition GRANTED. |
May 15 2014 | Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in support of petitioners received from counsel for petitioners. |
May 15 2014 | Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for the respondent. |
May 21 2014 | Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Company, LLC, et al. v. Brandon W. Owens. |
May 22 2014 | Brief of petitioners Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Company, LLC, et al. filed. |
May 29 2014 | Brief amicus curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America filed. |
May 29 2014 | Brief amici curiae of Washington Legal Foundation, et al. filed. |
May 29 2014 | Brief amicus curiae of DRI - The Voice of the Defense Bar filed. |
Jun 2 2014 | Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioners GRANTED. |
Jun 6 2014 | The time to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including July 23, 2014. |
Jul 9 2014 | Record requested from U.S.C.A. 10th Circuit. |
Jul 15 2014 | Record received from U.S.C.A. 10th Circuit is electronic and available on PACER. |
Jul 16 2014 | SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Tuesday, October 7, 2014 |
Jul 23 2014 | Brief of respondent Brandon W. Owens filed. |
Jul 29 2014 | Brief amicus curiae of Public Citizen, Inc. filed. |
Aug 7 2014 | CIRCULATED. |
Aug 22 2014 | Reply of petitioners Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Company, LLC, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
Oct 7 2014 | Argued. For petitioners: Nowell D. Berreth, Atlanta, Ga. For respondent: Rex A. Sharp, Prairie Village, Kan. |
Dec 15 2014 | Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED. Ginsburg, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Breyer, Alito, and Sotomayor, JJ., joined. Scalia, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Kennedy and Kagan, JJ., joined, and in which Thomas, J., joined as to all but the final sentence. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion. |
Jan 16 2015 | JUDGMENT ISSUED. |
In yet another Friday night shadow docket order, a divided Supreme Court sides with challengers to California’s COVID-related restrictions. Brief per curiam opinion and dissent from Justice Kagan: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20a151_4g15.pdf
By vote of 5-4, #SCOTUS blocks California's COVID-related restrictions on in-home prayer meetings and worship. Opinion & Kagan's dissent are here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20a151_4g15.pdf
President Biden will sign an executive order authorizing a commission to study Supreme Court reform. The commission will review “the length of service and turnover of justices on the court; the membership and size of the court” among other topics.
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The Supreme Court will hear April and May oral arguments remotely but with a live audio feed.
#SCOTUS confirms that "[i]n keeping with public health guidance in response to COVID-19," it will hear oral arguments in April and on May 4 remotely, as it has for the other argument sessions this term. Press release here: https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Media-Advisory-Teleconference-Arguments.pdf
In a Monday evening shadow-docket filing, Tennessee asks the Supreme Court to reinstate a state law that imposes a 48-hour waiting period for patients to abortions. A federal judge struck down the waiting period as unconstitutional. @AHoweBlogger explains:
Tennessee asks court to restore waiting period for abortions - SCOTUSblog
Tennessee filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court on Monday, asking the justices for permission to enforce...
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BREAKING: In major copyright battle between tech giants, SCOTUS sides w/ Google over Oracle, finding that Google didnt commit copyright infringement when it reused lines of code in its Android operating system. The code came from Oracle's JAVA SE platform. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf
NEW: The Supreme Court agrees to take up one new case, Brown v. Davenport. It's a technical but important question about the standard for federal courts reviewing habeas claims to assess whether constitutional violations were "harmless error." https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/040521zor_3204.pdf
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