Archive for June 26th, 2008
Initial Term Statistical Breakdown
0 Comments Published by Kedar June 26th, 2008 in Court Procedure, Supreme CourtI just finished the Term Index, which you can find here.
Number of Opinions Released: 72
Per Curiam Decisions: 5 (7%)
Unanimous Decisions (9-0, 8-0): 24 (33%)
Lone Dissenter(8-1):6 (8%) [Thomas(3), Ginsburg(2), Breyer(1)]
Two Dissenters (7-2, 6-2, 5-2) :19 (26%)
Three Dissenters(6-3, 5-3): 9 (13%)
Five-to-Four Decision: 9 (13%)
More to come as I have more time to crunch numbers.
Two Other Cases from Today
0 Comments Published by Kedar June 26th, 2008 in Supreme Court, Constitutional LawFirst, Davis v. FEC came down against the “Millionaire’s Amendment.” Alito read from his majority opinion. Not terribly surprising, but almost certainly an interesting read. Interestingly enough, the Court took down disclosure requirements and contribution limits. Contribution limits went down for not being equally applied across the board and “disclosure requirements, which were designed to […]
DC v. Heller Thoughts and Analysis
0 Comments Published by Kedar June 26th, 2008 in Gun Control, Gun Rights, Supreme Court, Constitutional LawNow, for Heller: Affirmed, quite naturally. Wow! It came down 5-4, with none of the traditionally ‘liberal’ Justices joining the pro-gun rights majority. Scalia must have written an incredibly strong majority opinion and the ‘conservatives’ must have been unwilling to budge.
Opinions are straight 5-4, one majority and two dissent. No concurring, partials. I’m surprised […]
DC v. Heller Expected Soon
0 Comments Published by Kedar June 26th, 2008 in Gun Control, Gun Rights, Right to Bear Arms, Supreme Court, AdministrativeThe Supreme Court is set to release DC v. Heller and two other cases this morning. The cases will be announced between 10:00am and 10:15am EST, and the opinions will be online minutes later. I’ll be posting my initial thoughts and opinions here, and I’ll be linking to others around the ‘net as they do […]
Term Case Index Update
0 Comments Published by Kedar June 26th, 2008 in Court Procedure, AdministrativeThe Term Case Index for OT07 is now representative of everything the Court has handed down thus far in the term. As always, you can find it either along the top of the page or here. When the court hands down the remaining three cases from the term, I’ll post a complete statistical breakdown similar […]
