Archive for March 17th, 2008
Supreme Court accepts 8 New Cases
0 Comments Published by Kedar March 17th, 2008 in Court Procedure, Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court issued an orders list today and accepted 8 new cases for the OT08 docket. That brings the Court’s tally to a whopping tally of 19, and as Jason Harrow points out over at SCOTUSblog, it took the Court until June last year to fill the current docket to that level.
The recent surge […]
Supreme Court Gives Profanity A Second Thought
0 Comments Published by Kedar March 17th, 2008 in Free Speech, Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court today granted cert. in FOX v. FCC, a case revolving around the use of ‘fleeting expletives’ on national TV. Jan Crawford Greenburg has some wonderful analysis on the case on her ABC blog here. She quoted from Miguel Estrada’s (yes, that one) brief for NBC and I just had to reproduce it […]
