Supreme Court Grants Review in Animal Cruelty/First Amendment Case
1 Comment Published by Kedar April 20th, 2009 in Court Procedure, Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court granted review in three cases this morning, including a challenge to the Federal government’s ban on the distribution of videos involving animal cruelty in US v. Stevens. Volokh has a great discussion of the issues at play here. Thanks to SCOTUSblog, we have access to the cert petitions. Opinion Below Cert. Petition [...]
Initial Thoughts on Ricci v. DeStefano
0 Comments Published by Kedar January 19th, 2009 in Affirmative Action, Constitutional Law, Supreme Court[UPDATE]: On February 25, 2009, I filed a brief as amicus curiae in this case. You can find it here. Last week, the court granted review in Ricci v. DeStefano. In 2003, the city of New Haven attempted to promote a number of firefighters to the ranks of captain and lieutenant based on a number [...]
Supreme Court Grants Review In Six Cases; Will Likely Hear Them in April
0 Comments Published by Kedar January 16th, 2009 in Court Procedure, Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court accepted six new cases and placed them on expedited review so that they can be heard in the April sitting. You can find the orders list here. The Court can hear, on average, 12 cases per sitting (2 cases per day over 6 days.) As it currently stands, the Court has accepted [...]
Court Accepts Four New Cases
0 Comments Published by Kedar January 9th, 2009 in Constitutional Law, Court Procedure, Supreme CourtThe Court today accepted four new cases including a potentially landmark voting rights case. The cases will almost certainly be heard in April and you can see the orders list here. The court put each of the cases on a expedited brief schedule in order to fit the cases on to the April session from [...]
Court Accepts Domestic Detention Case
0 Comments Published by Kedar December 5th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Supreme CourtThe Court today accepted a case revolving around the domestic detention of a legal immigrant from Qutar suspected of having terrorist ties. The most interesting thing about the case, al-Marri v. Pucciarelli, is that it will not be heard until after President Obama takes office so President-elect Obama will have the opportunity to revise the [...]
Justices Stevens and Thomas Discuss Death Penalty Proportionality
0 Comments Published by Kedar October 22nd, 2008 in Clarence Thomas, Death Penalty, John Paul Stevens, Supreme CourtOn Monday the court denied review in Walker v. Georgia, a case revolving around the court’s proportionality standard applied to the death penalty. The court has long struggled to find an adequate means of countering racist bias within the capital system and there is little doubt that the issue will rear its ahead again in [...]
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 [...]
Supreme Court Extends DC’s Argument Time in Heller
0 Comments Published by Kedar February 25th, 2008 in Court Procedure, Supreme Court, Upcoming ArgumentsThe Supreme Court released an orders list today (here) and they accepted three new cases. Carcieri v. Kempthorne – Whether or not the federal government must afford Indian Tribes that are not officially recognized the same protections they offer officially recognized tribes. (Petition for Cert.) Arizona v. Gant – The Court accepted review on this [...]
Supreme Court Issues First Orders List Of The Year
0 Comments Published by Kedar January 6th, 2008 in Court Procedure, Supreme CourtIn the first Orders List of the new year, the Supreme Court accepted review in six new cases. You can find it on the Court’s website here. They include three sentencing cases, one Indian Tribes case, one civil RICO case, and a case about Article III standing. Over the next few days I’ll be offering [...]
Supreme Court Agrees To Hear DC Gun Case
2 Comments Published by Kedar November 20th, 2007 in Constitutional Law, Court Procedure, Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court today released an orders list in which it agreed to hear the DC gun control case, District of Columbia v. Heller. It narrowed the questions presented to the following: Whether the following provisions – D.C. Code §§ 7-2502.02(a)(4), 22-4504(a), and 7-2507.02 – violate the Second Amendment rights of individuals who are not [...]



