The statistics of relists, OT 2016 edition: Has the relist lost its mojo? Not quite
With the new term about to start, we thought it was time to look back and see what lessons we could learn from the relist statistics for October Term 2016.
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Cert grants from the long conference: The September effect
The Supreme Court’s September 25 “long conference” is now behind us; if the past is any guide, the grants out of that conference should be released on Thursday, September 28.
Opinion analysis: Divided court holds firm on deadlines for investors opting out of securities class actions
Involving as it does a relatively technical question about class action procedures, California Public Employees’ Retirement System v. ANZ Securities did not look like a probable candidate for the final day of the term.
Opinion analysis: In Texas capital case, divided court limits scope of “nested” ineffective-assistance claims
In one of the last decisions of its October 2016 term, a sharply divided Supreme Court yesterday ruled against a Texas prisoner facing a death sentence, declining to extend its 2012 ruling in Martinez v. Ryan.
Opinion analysis: Majority sides with employee in civil service argument, but Gorsuch announces his presence with authority
The late Justice Byron White used to say that every new justice created a “new” Supreme Court. Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Board, decided on Friday, may be remembered as the opening salvo in the battle over statutory interpretation on the “new” Roberts court featuring Justice Neil Gorsuch (who, appropriately, clerked for White).
Opinion analysis: Church prevails in funding dispute
Before Justice Antonin Scalia died last year, the Supreme Court agreed to review a church’s challenge to Missouri’s denial of the church’s application for a grant to resurface its playground.
No decision in two immigration-enforcement cases
President Donald Trump has made immigration enforcement a top priority. Two immigration-enforcement cases looked likely to have a big impact on the Trump administration’s plans. Both were argued before the confirmation of Justice Neil Gorsuch.
Opinion analysis: Court sends cross-border shooting lawsuit back to lower court
It has been a little over seven years since 15-year-old Sergio Hernandez was shot by Jesus Mesa, a U.S. Border Patrol agent, while Hernandez was standing on the Mexican side of the border.
Opinion analysis: In regulatory takings case, court announces a new test
Under the doctrine of regulatory takings, government regulation that goes “too far” in burdening property rights counts as a taking under the Fifth Amendment, entitling the owner to “just compensation.” In deciding such claims, courts often must deal with a tricky preliminary question: How should they define the bounds of the property that the government has allegedly taken?
Opinion analysis: Immigrant who received bad advice gets another shot at staying in the U.S.
Yesterday the Supreme Court sent the case of a Bosnian Serb woman who was stripped of her citizenship for lying to immigration officials back to the lower courts.
Opinion analysis: To strip citizenship for false statements, government must show that lies would have mattered
In 2000, Divna Maslenjak and her family came to the United States as refugees from the former Yugoslavia, fleeing the civil war in that country. Maslenjak became a U.S. citizen in 2007, but several years later she was stripped of her citizenship and deported – as was her husband – because immigration officials discovered that she had made false statements during her naturalization process.
Opinion analysis: Justices uphold convictions in infamous D.C. murder case
This morning the justices upheld the convictions of seven men who had been convicted of the brutal beating, sodomy, and murder of Catherine Fuller, a District of Columbia mother of six, in 1984.