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Each week we bring you up to date coverage of the most recent cases and decisions before the United States Supreme Court. We discuss the most recent grants and denials of certiorari, court decisions and opinions, and oral arguments. We also present in-depth special reports on related topics of interest.
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February 4th - Oral Arguments in Filarsky v. Delia | The Court is in winter recess and will reconvene on February 17, 2012. In the interim, Supreme Podcast will be broadcasting special episodes. This week we review oral arguments heard on January 17, 2012 in Filarsky v. Delia, a case concerning whether a private attorney who was temporarily retained by a government entity was entitled to qualified immunity when he was sued for actions he took in his role as an investigator for the government. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 26th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the court issued four opinions and did not grant certiorari to any new cases or hear any cases in oral arguments. We begin today with the court's much anticipated opinion this week in the case of United States v. Jones, which considered whether police should have obtained a warrant before placing a GPS tracking device on a suspect's car and tracking its movements for four weeks. We next consider another Fourth Amendment decision this week in Ryburn v. Huff, wherein the court considered whether police officers violated a family's right to be free from warrantless searches when they entered the family's home during an investigation into a rumor that their son was going to “shoot up” his school - Bellarmine-Jefferson High School in Burbank, California. We next consider the Court's opinion this week in National Meat Association v. Harris, wherein the Supreme Court decided whether federal law pre-empted California state law in regard to the treatment of pigs and other animals at slaughterhouses, when the animal in question has lost the ability to walk on its own. Finally, we consider the statutory interpretation case of Reynolds v. United States, which concerns whether the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act ("SORNA") applies to sex offenders who committed their crimes prior to the effective date of the law in the absence of a clear indication by the Attorney General that the act applies to them. OPINIONS (click to download) Ryburn v. Huff (11-208) National Meat Assn. v. Harris (10-224) Reynolds v. United States (10-6549) United States v. Jones (10-1259) | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 20th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the court issued three opinions, heard five cases in oral arguments (two of which were consolidated for review) and granted certiorari to three cases. We begin with a review of the Court’s opinion in Perry v. Perez, the Texas Redistricting cases. We next review an order released simultaneously with the Texas redistricting opinion staying an order of a federal court in West Virginia challenging redistricting plans in that state. We then review the court's opinion this week in Maples v. Thomas, concerning an Alabama state prisoner represented pro bono by two attorneys of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell who subsequently left the firm but had not ensured that other attorneys at the firm would take over the case, causing the Alabama state prisoner to miss his appellate filing deadline. Next, we review the Court's opinion in Golan v. Holder, which resolves the question of whether Congress may restore copyright to millions of potential works that had fallen into the public domain between 1923-1989. We end this week with a report on the grant of certiorari in Cavazos v. Williams, which concerns whether a state court judge violated a defendant's right to trial by jury when he dismissed a hold-out juror in a deadlocked jury based in part on the juror's view of the verdict. OPINIONS (click to download) Perry v. Perez (Texas Redistricting Cases) (11-713) Mims v. Arrow Financial Services, LLC (10-1195) Golan v. Holder (10-545) Maples v. Thomas (10-63) GRANTS OF CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Cavazos v. Williams (Ninth Circuit) United States v. Bormes (Federal Circuit) Kloeckner v. Solis (8th Circuit) ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) United States v. Home Concrete & Supply, LLC (11-139) Audio Transcript Filarsky v. Delia (10-1018) Audio Transcript Holder v. Martinez Gutierrez (10-1542) Audio Transcript Vartelas v. Holder (10-1211) Audio Transcript | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 14th - This Week's Oral Arguments | Our podcast this week is divided into two episodes. In this episode we review the two cases granted certiorari this week and four of the seven opinions issued this week: Perry v. Perez - how far may a federal court go in redrawing election districts in Texas in an emergency circumstance where an impending election does not yet have a precleared election map in place? FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. - is the FCC new indecency policy (developed over the last ten years) unconstitutionally vague? Sackett v. EPA - whether the due process clause is violated by homeowners’ inability to challenge EPA compliance order in a Court unless and until the EPA seeks judicial enforcement of the order. ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) Perry v. Perez (11-713) Audio Transcript FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. (10-1293) Audio Transcript Sackett v. EPA (10-1062) Audio Transcript Kappos v. Hyatt (10-1219) Audio Transcript Knox v. Service Employees (10-1121) Audio Transcript Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Md. (10-1016) Audio Transcript Roberts v. Sea-Land Services, Inc. (10-1399) Audio Transcript | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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January 13th - This Week's Opinions and Orders | Our podcast this week is divided into two episodes. In this episode we review the two cases granted certiorari this week and four of the seven opinions issued this week: Florida v. Jardines - whether the police use of a dog trained to sniff for drugs at the front door of the defendant’s home is an illegal search in violation of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable search and seizures. Hosanna Tabor Church and School v. EEOC - whether a teacher at a religious school in Missouri is prohibited from filing a claim of employment discrimination against the church that hired her, because she falls under the "ministerial exception" - a principle of law deriving from the First Amendment’s religion clause that excepts religious institutions from employment discrimination laws. Minneci v. Pollard - whether an inmate in a Federal Prison can sue the federal contractors who operated the prison for a violation of his constitutional right against cruel and unusual punishment. Smith v. Cain - whether the Brady violations that occurred in the case warrant reversal of the defendant’s conviction. Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter - whether the Department of Interior is obligated to pay off all money owed on contracts with Indian tribes, even if Congress does not appropriate enough money. Gonzales v. Thaler - a case concerning the timeliness of a habeas corpus petition by a state prisoner. OPINIONS (click to download) Smith v. Cain (10-8145) CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood (10-948) Minneci v. Pollard (10-1104) Gonzalez v. Thaler (10-895) Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC (10-553) Pacific Operators Offshore, LLP v. Valladolid (10-507) Perry v. New Hampshire (10-8974) GRANTS OF CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Florida v. Jardines (Florida Supreme Court) Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter (10th Cir.) | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Notable Cases of 2011 - Year in Review | This week we review the most controversial and notable cases of 2011. Notable 2011 Cases (click to download) Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes (10-277) Chamber of Commerce of United States of America v. Whiting (09-115) Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club Pac v. Bennett (10-238) Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn (09-987) Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn. (08-1448) Brown v. Plata (09-1233) Stern v. Marshall (10-179) American Elec. Power Co. v. Connecticut (10-174) Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. (10-779) Turner v. Rogers (10-10) Bullcoming v. New Mexico (09-10876) AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion (09-893) | 1/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Profile of Justice Sonia Sotomayor | This week we continue our biographies series with a profile of Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Our profiles of other justices are available to download in iTunes. Dissenting Opinions by Justice Sotomayor (click case name to download) Berghuis v. Thompkins (06/01/10) (08-1470) Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC (02/22/11) (09-152) Buck v. Thaler (11/07/11) (11-6391) Chamber of Commerce of United States of America v. Whiting (05/26/11) (09-115) Cullen v. Pinholster (04/04/11) (09-1088) Graham County Soil and Water Conservation Dist. v. United States ex rel. Wilson (03/30/10) (08-304) Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. v. Regal-Beloit Corp. (06/21/10) (08-1553) PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing (06/23/11) (09-993) Robertson v. United States ex rel. Watson (05/24/10) (08-6261) Sossamon v. Texas (04/20/11) (08-1438) United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation (06/13/11) (10-382) Concurring Opinions by Justice Sotomayor (click case name to download) Ashcroft v. al-Kidd (05/31/11) (10-98) Astrue v. Ratliff (06/14/10) (08-1322) Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (06/06/11) (09-1159) Bullcoming v. New Mexico (06/23/11) (09-10876) Camreta v. Greene (05/26/11) (09-1454) Davis v. United States (06/16/11) (09-11328) Doe v. Reed (06/24/10) (09-559) Freeman v. United States (06/23/11) (09-10245) Tapia v. United States (06/16/11) (10-5400) United States v. Tohono O’odham Nation (04/26/11) (09-846) Williamson v. Mazda Motor of America, Inc. (02/23/11) (08-1314) Concur In Part, Dissent In Part Granite Rock Co. v. Teamsters (06/24/10) (08-1214) Skilling v. United States (06/24/10) (08-1394) Majority Opinions by Justice Sotomayor (click case name to download) Carr v. United States (06/01/10) (08-1301) Chase Bank USA, N. A. v. McCoy (01/24/11) (09-329) Depierre v. United States (06/09/11) (09-1533) Dillon v. United States (06/17/10) (09-6338) J. D. B. v. North Carolina (06/16/11) (09-11121) Jerman v. Carlisle, McNellie, Rini, Kramer & Ulrich LPA (04/21/10) (08-1200) Krupski v. Costa Crociere S. p. A. (06/07/10) (09-337) Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano (03/22/11) (09-1156) Michigan v. Bryant (02/28/11) (09-150) Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership (06/09/11) (10-290) Hui v. Castaneda (05/03/10) (08-1529) Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P. A. v. United States (03/08/10) (08-1119) Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter (12/08/09) (08-678) Pepper v. United States (03/02/11) (09-6822) Wood v. Allen (01/20/10) (08-9156) | 12/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Episode - Surveillance and United States v. Jones | Can police place a GPS device on your car without a warrant? We consider the background to and listen to the full oral arguments in United States v. Jones, a case that will be decided by the Supreme Court this term. | 12/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December 15th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the court granted certiorari in four cases and issued two opinions. No cases were heard in oral arguments. We begin today’s broadcast with a review of another controversial case the Court has agreed to hear this term - Arizona v. United States, which concerns the constitutionality of four key provisions of an Arizona law that seeks to comprehensively deal with the problem of illegal immigration in the state and whether the law is permitted in light of a comprehensive federal scheme already in place or whether the provisions are preempted and must fall. We next consider two cases consolidated for review and granted certiorari this week - Salazar v. Patchak and Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak, concerning the granting of trust lands to an Indian tribe for the intent of building a casino. The court must decide whether a nearby resident of the intended casino had standing to bring a lawsuit against the federal government in opposition to the granting of trust land to the Indian tribe. The resident argues that the proposed casino would detract from the quiet, family atmosphere of the surrounding rural area. We end with a review of the two unanimous opinions issued this week. OPINIONS (click to download) Judulang v. Holder (10-694) Hardy v. Cross (11-74) GRANTS OF CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Arizona v. United States (Ninth Circuit) Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak (DC Cir.) Salazar v. Patchak (DC Circuit) RadLAX Gateway Hotel, LLC v. Amalgamated Bank (Seventh Circuit) | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December 10th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the court granted certiorari to four cases, three of which were consolidated for review. The court also heard six cases in oral arguments. No opinions were issued. We will begin with a report on three cases the Court granted and consolidated for review late Friday concerning the redistricting of Texas election districts. We then review the oral arguments this week in Messerschmidt v. Millender, which considers whether police officers may be sued for exceeding the scope of a search warrant and searching for and seizing items not set forth in the search warrant. Next, we review the oral arguments this week in PPL Montana LLC v. Montana, in the Supreme Court must determine who owns the riverbeds in Montana. If the state of Montana owns the riverbeds, than utility companies which have built hydroelectric facilities on the riverbeds may owe the state tens of millions of dollars in back rent. Finally, we consider the grant of certiorari this week in Reichle v. Howards, which considers whether secret service agents should be entitled to qualified or absolute immunity from a First Amendment retaliatory arrest claim where probable cause existed for the arrest. GRANTS OF CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Reichle v. Howards (Tenth Circuit) Perry v. Shannon (Western District of Texas) Perry v. Davis (Western District of Texas) Perry v. Shannon 2 (Western District of Texas) ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) Messerschmidt v. Millender (10-704) Audio Transcript PPL Montana, LLC v. Montana (10-218) Audio Transcript Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. v. Novo Nordisk A/S (10-844) Audio Transcript Martel v. Clair (10-1265) Audio Transcript Williams v. Illinois (10-8505) Audio Transcript Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. (10-1150) Audio Transcript | 12/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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December 2nd - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the court issued granted certiorari, review, to four new cases and will hear four cases in oral arguments this week. No opinions were issued. We begin with a review of the oral arguments this week in First American Financial Corp. v. Edwards, which concerns the extent to which consumers can sue to enforce federal consumer protection laws where the consumer has not suffered quantifiable damages (an injury-in-fact) for standing purposes. We next review two cases granted certiorari on November 14th which were overshadowed by the health care cases granted certiorari the same week. We start with the Supreme Court's decision to hear the case of Armour v. Indianapolis, which concerns whether the City of Indianapolis could properly choose to reimburse some taxpayers, mostly low and middle income taxpayers, and not others, mostly wealthier taxpayers, for payments into a funding program that was ultimately canceled - or whether such discriminatory treatment violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Finally, we review the Court's grant of certiorari in Astrue v. Capato, wherein the Court will determine whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals was correct in its statutory interpretation when it held that a child conceived nearly a year after its father's death by way of in-vitro fertilization could qualify for survivor benefits under the Social Security Act. ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) First American Financial Corp. v. Edwards (10-708) Audio Transcript GRANTS OF CERTIORARI (November 14th) (click on case name to download lower court decision) Armour v. Indianapolis (Indiana Supreme Court) Astrue v. Capato (Third Circuit) | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Episode - Health Care Cases | This week we dedicate our entire show to a review of the health care cases granted certiorari this week. DOCUMENTS (click to download) Decision of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals Decision of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Decision of the Northern District of Florida Petition for Certiorari Brief in Opposition Petitioner’s Reply | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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November 11th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the court issued three opinions, two statements regarding a denial of certiorari and heard six cases in oral arguments. We begin this week with the a review of the oral arguments in United States v. Jones, which considers whether police need a warrant to attach a GPS device to a suspect's car in order to track its movements. We next review the three short opinions issued by the court this week. We then listen to and review excerpts of the oral arguments in National Meat Assn. v. Harris, wherein the Supreme Court considers whether federal law preempts a California statute that prevents the slaughter, sale and inhumane treatment of cows, pigs and other livestock at slaughterhouses, when the animal can no longer stand or walk without assistance. We then review two statements issued by justices of the court regarding the denial of certiorari in Buck v. Thaler, which concerns the testimony of an expert witness in Texas whose testimony that race is a legitimate factor in determining the future dangerousness of a defendant in a capitol cases has led the State of Texas to admit error in six cases in which the prejudicial testimony was sought. Finally, we consider the oral arguments in M.B.Z. v. Clinton, which considers the political question doctrine and whether the federal courts may even consider a challenge to a congressional law which in 2002 declared jerusalem the capitol of israel and directed the State Department to reflect this fact on consular documents, which the Executive Branch under Bush and now Obama refused to do. OPINION (click to download) KPMG LLP v. Cocchi (10-1521) Bobby v. Dixon (10-1540) Greene v. Fisher (10-637) DISSENT FROM DENIAL OF CERTIORARI (click to download) Buck v. Thaler (Sotomayor) Buck v. Thaler (Alito) ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) M.B.Z. v. Clinton (10-699) Audio Transcript Kawashima v. Holder (10-577) Audio Transcript United States v. Jones (10-1259) Audio Transcript Smith v. Cain (10-8145) Audio Transcript National Meat Assn. v. Harris (10-224) Audio Transcript Kurns v. Railroad Friction Products Corp. (10-879) Audio Transcript | 11/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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November 4th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the court heard six cases in oral arguments, issued its first opinion of the 2011 term and Justice Thomas issued the term's first dissent from a denial of certiorari. This week, in an extended podcast, we review the following seven cases: Lafler v. Cooper and Missouri v. Frye, which the court heard in oral arguments on Monday both of which ask the court to resolve the open question of whether defendants are entitled to effective assistance of counsel during the plea stage of a criminal prosecution, even where the defendant ultimately received a fair trial or knowingly and voluntarily accepted a plea deal. Cavazos v. Smith, which concerns the questionable state court conviction of a grandmother accused of assaulting a baby by shaking it violently resulting in the infant's death. While nearly everyone agrees that the California jury's verdict is questionable the Supreme Court in a divided opinion cautions that there is nothing the federal courts can do about it. Utah Highway Patrol v. American Atheists, Inc., a case which concerns whether the placement of crosses on public lands in Utah to memorialize slain police officers constitutes a government endorsement of religion in violation of the First Amendment. Minneci v. Pollard, wherein the Supreme Court must decide whether to allow a new category of constitutional law suits - claims against federal contractors for violations of constitutional rights. The case stems out of a Bivens claim brought by a prisoner in a federal facility run by federal contractors for cruel and unusual punishment after they required Pollard to where handcuffs for six and a half hours in order to see a doctor after he broke both his arms in an accident, then refused to give him a splint the doctor recommended he wear and failed to help him eat or bathe himself, neither of which he was capable of doing adequately on his own. Perry v. New Hampshire in which the court considers whether a defendant can seek constitutional due process protection from a potentially unreliable out of court identification where no state action was involved in creating the suggestive and potentially unreliable circumstances of the identification. And, Rehberg v. Paulk, a case which seeks answers to the question of to what extent a person who is acting as a complaining witness - that is a person who comes forward and accuses a person of a crime often resulting in a criminal prosecution - is immune from civil liability when the testimony they give before a grand jury is false and causes a specious criminal prosecution to ensue causing harm to an innocent defendant. OPINION (click to download) Cavazos v. Smith (10-1115) DISSENT FROM DENIAL OF CERTIORARI (click to download) Utah Highway Patrol v. American Atheists, Inc. (10-1276) ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) Lafler v. Cooper (10-209) Audio Transcript Missouri v. Frye (10-444) Audio Transcript Rehberg v. Paulk (10-788) Audio Transcript Minneci v. Pollard (10-1104) Audio Transcript Perry v. New Hampshire (10-8974) Audio Transcript Gonzalez v. Thaler (10-895) Audio Transcript | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 20th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the Court granted certiorari to four cases. No oral arguments were heard and no opinions were issued this week. Today, we review three of the four new cases the Supreme Court has agreed to hear: (1) United States v. Alvarez, considers the Stolen Valor Act which makes it a crime to to falsely represent that you have been awarded any decoration or medal authorized by Congress for the Armed Forces of the United States and whether the Act is an unconstitutional intrusion upon free speech; (2) Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, is a case by native Nigerians who claim that the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, a parent company of the Shell Oil companies, committed violations of international law by subjecting their people to murder, torture, looting and other human rights violations and whether whether a corporation, rather than individuals, can be held liable for alleged human rights violations under the Alien Tort Statute; (3) Elgin v. Department of the Treasury concerns the disqualification for employment of four federal government employees for failing to register with the selective service system and whether they may challenge the law under which they were disqualified in a federal district court or must instead pursue the claim before an internal administrative board which likely lacks authority to declare the law unconstitutional; and (4) Mohamad v. Rajoub, is a case brought by the family of an American citizen who was killed in the West Bank of Israel and seeks to hold the Palestinian Authority and the PLO responsible under the Torture Victims Protection Act, which establishes civil liability for individuals who torture or kill. CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) United States v. Alvarez (9th Circuit) (denial of rehearing) (Bagdasarian) Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (2nd Circuit) Elgin v. Dep’t of the Treasury (1st Circuit) Mohamad v. Rajoub (DC Circuit) | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 14th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the Court granted certiorari to two new cases and heard oral arguments in five cases. We begin with the oral arguments in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington, et al. - in which the Supreme Court is asked to decide whether jails can conduct strip searches on anyone and everyone arrested-- even those arrested for minor offenses such as a traffic stop or an unpaid warrant. Next, we turn to the grant of certiorari in Blueford v. Arkansas, which seeks to determine whether double jeopardy protections attach where a jury in a state criminal proceeding in Arkansas announced to the judge that they were unanimous in voting against a sentence of capital murder and first degree murder but deadlocked on manslaughter and were ultimately declared hopelessly deadlocked - causing the prosecutor to seek a new trial on the capital murder charges. Finally, we review the oral arguments in Greene v. Palakovich wherein the Supreme Court is asked to determine whether a supreme court case which announces a new rule relevant to a defendant's case must be considered after a defendant's appeal on direct review has been denied on the merits but before the state high court has denied review. CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Blueford v. Arkansas (Arkansas Supreme Court) Freeman v. Quicken Loans Inc. (Fifth Circuit) ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) Pacific Operators Offshore, LLP v. Valladolid (10-507) Audio Transcript CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood (10-948) Audio Transcript Greene v. Fisher (10-637) Audio Transcript Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington (10-945) Audio Transcript Judulang v. Holder (10-694) Audio Transcript | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 7th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the Court heard seven cases in oral arguments. We review three cases. We start with Maples v. Thomas, which concerns a death row inmate who missed his time to appeal because of mistakes made by his attorneys through no fault of his own - typically the client must bear the penalty of such their lawyers mistakes with the only remedy being a civil malpractice suit - however, because of the high stakes involved in a death penalty case the justices have decided to revisit the ruling in this case. We next consider the case of Hosanna-Tabor Church v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission where a religious school teacher was fired after she informed her employer that she had been diagnosed with narcolepsy - the question is whether the religious school is bound by the Americans with Disabilities Act or whether applying the act to the school would be an impermissible intrusion on the freedom of religion secured by the First Amendment. Finally, we will review arguments in Howes v. Fields which revisits the question of when a prisoner is in custody such that he must be read his Miranda rights when being questioned as a suspect regarding a crime outside the prison walls other than the one for which he is being held. ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) Douglas v. Independent Living Center of Southern Cal., Inc. (09-958) Audio Transcript Reynolds v. United States (10-6549) Audio Transcript Maples v. Thomas (10-63) Audio Transcript Martinez v. Ryan (10-1001) Audio Transcript Howes v. Fields (10-680) Audio Transcript Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC (10-553) Audio Transcript Golan v. Holder (10-545) Audio Transcript | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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October 4th - Introduction to the Court's 2011-2012 Term | In our inaugural episode of the 2011-2012 term we review a list of interesting cases the Court is due to hear this term. OPINIONS BELOW (click on case name to download lower court opinion) Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC (6th Circuit) Maples v. Thomas (11th Circuit) Lafler v. Cooper (6th Circuit) Missouri v. Frye (Missouri) Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington (3rd Circuit) United States v. Jones (DC Cir.) Perry v. New Hampshire (New Hampshire) FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. (2nd Circuit) | 10/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sackett v. EPA and A History of Legal Challenges to Federal Environmental Regulations | Rod Ventura explores the long history of cases challenging federal environmental regulations and the power of the federal government to limit certain uses of public and private land. The discussion is timely given a case the Court is due to hear this term: Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. Sackett v. EPA Case Documents (click on document name to download) Ninth Circuit Opinion (Sept. 17, 2010) Petition for Certiorari (filed Feb. 23, 2011) Brief in Opposition (filed May 27, 2011) Amicus Brief of Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence (filed March 25, 2011) Amicus Brief of the American Civil Rights Union (filed March 28, 2011) Amicus Brief of the National Association of Home Builders (filed March 28, 2011) | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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July 3 - Part II - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | In Part II of our podcast this week we review four cases granted certiorari this week, including: FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., in which the Supreme Court will evaluate the FCC's policy regarding indecent language on broadcast television programs and whether the FCC approach is constitutional; United States v. Jones, where the Supreme Court must assess the constitutionality of police GPS devices surreptitiously placed on suspects cars to track them and whether they constitute a search under the 4th amendment such that a warrant is required for their use; Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals, in which the Court must consider whether Congress intruded upon the powers reserved to the states when it enacted the Family Medical Leave Act - which in part gives all employees who work for employers of 50 or more employees or who are employees of governmental or educational agencies the right to 12 weeks of unpaid leave with the option to come back to their same job if they have a serious health condition, have a child, adopt a child, care for a seriously ill spouse, child or parent or for another protected reason; and, PPL Montana, LLC v. Montana, where the Court will face the question of who owns the riverbeds in Montana. If the court finds that the state owns the riverbeds, then utility companies who have built hydro electric projects on the rivers may owe the state of Montana millions of dollars in past rent for facilities they have built on these riverbeds. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn. (08-1448) Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett (10-238) United States v. Juvenile Male (09-940) Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S. A. v. Brown (10-76) J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro (09-1343) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download) Credit Suisse Securities LLC v. Simmonds (9th Cir.) National Meat Association v. Harris (9th Cir.) Martel v. Clair (9th Cir.) Knox v. Service Employees Int’l Union, Local 1000 (9th Cir.) Kappos v. Hyatt (9th Cir.) FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. (2nd Cir.) Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. v. Novo Nordisk A/S (3rd Cir.) Mims v. Arrow Financial Services, LLC (11th Cir.) Messerschmidt v. Millender (9th Cir.) Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals (4th Cir.) United States v. Jones (DC Cir.) Williams v. Illinois (Illinois) Sackett, et al., v. EPA, et al. (9th Cir.) | 7/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJune 30 - Part I - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | In its last week of the term the Court issued five opinions and decisions and granted certiorari to thirteen cases. Today, we review the five opinions and decisions, including Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn., wherein the Supreme Court was asked to decide whether a California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors is constitutional; Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett, in which the Supreme Court evaluated the constitutionality of Arizona's matching fund system for candidates for pubic office; United States v. Juvenile Male, which considers whether the mootness doctrine applies to the appeal of a 13-year-old accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old on the grounds that the Sex Offender Registration Act was applied to him retroactively in violation of the Constitution's prohibition against ex post facto laws and whether it is dispositive that by the time the issue was decided by the Ninth Circuit, below, the 13-year-old had turned 21 and was no longer subject to the Sex Offender Registration Act's requirements; and Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S. A. v. Brown & J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro, which involves questions of whether foreign manufacturers can be sued in state courts simply because their goods are sold through third-parties in those states. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn. (08-1448) Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett (10-238) United States v. Juvenile Male (09-940) Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S. A. v. Brown (10-76) J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro (09-1343) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download) Credit Suisse Securities LLC v. Simmonds (9th Cir.) National Meat Association v. Harris (9th Cir.) Martel v. Clair (9th Cir.) Knox v. Service Employees Int’l Union, Local 1000 (9th Cir.) Kappos v. Hyatt (9th Cir.) FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc. (2nd Cir.) Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories, Ltd. v. Novo Nordisk A/S (3rd Cir.) Mims v. Arrow Financial Services, LLC (11th Cir.) Messerschmidt v. Millender (9th Cir.) Coleman v. Maryland Court of Appeals (4th Cir.) United States v. Jones (DC Cir.) Williams v. Illinois (Illinois) Sackett, et al., v. EPA, et al. (9th Cir.) | 6/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 24th - Part II - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | In Part II of our podcast this week we continue our review of the ten decisions issued by the Court this week. As we are in the final stretch of the term the pace of opinions has increased as the Court seeks to dispose of its remaining cases this term before the end of the term next week. Today we review six cases issued by the Court on Thursday this week, including: Stern v. Marshall wherein the court revisits issues surrounding the estate of the late Anna Nicole Smith and the limits on the powers of a bankruptcy court judge to make certain final judgments; Bullcoming v. New Mexico, which concerns whether a particular lab technician who signed and certified a lab report setting forth the defendant's blood-alcohol level at the time of arrest is required to testify live in court in order to satisfy the accused's Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him or whether it is sufficient for a technician who did not certify the particular results at issue but who is familiar with the practices at the lab where the results were produced; Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., wherein the Court must decide whether a Vermont law that prohibits pharmacies from selling information on what drugs doctors are prescribing violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment; PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing, which concerns whether state tort laws can work to require generic drug manufacturers to place warning on their drug labels not required by the Food and Drug Administration; CSX Transp., Inc. v. McBride, wherein the court considers whether in order to recover under the Federal Employers' Liability Act an employee must show that his employer's negligence was the probable or proximate cause of his or her injury or whether it is sufficient to merely show that the employer's negligence played a part no matter how small in causing the injury; and Freeman v. United States, which considers whether retroactive amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines permits judges to repentance defendants who were originally sentence pursuant to a binding plea agreement. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes (10-277) Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri (09-1476) American Elec. Power Co. v. Connecticut (10-174) Turner v. Rogers (10-10) Stern v. Marshall (10-179) Freeman v. United States (09-10245) Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. (10-779) PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing (09-993) Bullcoming v. New Mexico (09-10876) CSX Transp., Inc. v. McBride (10-235) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download) First American Financial Corp. v. Edwards (9th Cir.) PPL Montana, LLC v. Montana (MT) Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. (Fed. Cir.) Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper (9th Cir.) | 6/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 23rd - Part I - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the court issued ten opinions and granted certiorari to four new cases. Our podcast this week will come to you in two segments. In this segment we review the four opinions issued by the Court on Monday: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes, in which the court had to decide whether the largest class-action in history composed of current and past female employees of Wal-Mart could proceed against the retail giant for claims of sex discrimination allegedly caused by Wal-mart's discriminatory corporate culture; American Elec. Power Co. v. Connecticut, wherein the Court considers whether Connecticut and other states may use the federal courts to sue major fossil-fuel power companies in other states for contributing to the effects of global warming in their states under the common law doctrine of nuisance; Turner v. Rogers, in which the Court answers whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to provide counsel to an indigent noncustodial parent at civil contempt proceedings concerning the failure to pay child support where the indigent noncustodial parent faces possible jail time; and Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri, in which the Court considers whether a police chief complaining of a personal vendetta by a local government entity against him in retaliation for filing a union grievance may proceed under the petition clause of the First Amendment. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes (10-277) Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri (09-1476) American Elec. Power Co. v. Connecticut (10-174) Turner v. Rogers (10-10) Stern v. Marshall (10-179) Freeman v. United States (09-10245) Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. (10-779) PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing (09-993) Bullcoming v. New Mexico (09-10876) CSX Transp., Inc. v. McBride (10-235) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download) First American Financial Corp. v. Edwards (9th Cir.) PPL Montana, LLC v. Montana (MT) Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. (Fed. Cir.) Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper (9th Cir.) | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 18th - Part III - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | It was a busy week at the court. The Court issued nine opinions this week and granted certiorari to four new cases. This is our third installment of a three part podcast this week covering the nine opinions issued by the Court this week. Today we cover three opinions: Tapia v. United States, a case in which the court decided whether federal courts may impose or add time to a criminal defendant's sentence in order to foster rehabilitation of the defendant; Davis v. US, a case involving the applicability of the exclusionary rule when police act in reliance upon current law, which is later overturned; and JDB v. North Carolina, a 5-4 decision whereby the court modified the Miranda rule to require law enforcement and courts to consider the age of a subject of police questioning in assessing whether the person is in custody for purposes of triggering the Miranda warning requirements. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Nevada Comm’n on Ethics v. Carrigan (10-568) Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders (09-525) United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation (10-382) Flores-Villar v. United States (09-5801) Bond v. United States (09-1227) Davis v. United States (09-11328) J. D. B. v. North Carolina (09-11121) Smith v. Bayer Corp. (09-1205) Tapia v. United States (10-5400) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download) Smith v. Louisiana (LA) - Petition, Opposition, Reply Setser v. United States (5th Cir.) Gonzalez v. Thaler (5th Cir.) Hall v. United States (9th Cir.) | 6/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 17th - Part II - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | It was a busy week at the court. The Court issued nine opinions this week and granted certiorari to four new cases. This is our second installment of a three part podcast this week covering the nine opinions issued by the Court this week. Today we cover three opinions: Bond v. United States, which puts to rest the question of whether the Tenth Amendment permits an individual convicted of a federal crime to challenge the law as intruding on powers reserved to the States and the people and beyond Congresses enumerated powers under the Constitution; Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders, which concerns whether Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 10b-5 which forbids "any person to make any untrue statement of a material fact" in connection with the purchase or sale of securities applies to third parties who participate in the writing and dissemination of a mutual fund's prospectus or only to the mutual fund itself for which the prospectus is written and filed; and Smith v. Bayer Corporation, which concerns whether the doctrine of issue preclusion permits a federal court to issue an injunction against a state court enjoining it from relitigating the question of class certification in a suit by an unnamed class member where the federal court has already rejected class certification in a virtually identical case against the same defendant. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Nevada Comm’n on Ethics v. Carrigan (10-568) Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders (09-525) United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation (10-382) Flores-Villar v. United States (09-5801) Bond v. United States (09-1227) Davis v. United States (09-11328) J. D. B. v. North Carolina (09-11121) Smith v. Bayer Corp. (09-1205) Tapia v. United States (10-5400) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download) Smith v. Louisiana (LA) - Petition, Opposition, Reply Setser v. United States (5th Cir.) Gonzalez v. Thaler (5th Cir.) Hall v. United States (9th Cir.) | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 16th - Part I - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | It was a busy week at the court. The Court issued nine opinions this week and granted certiorari to four new cases. Our podcast this week will come to you in three segments. Today we cover three opinions: Nevada Comm’n on Ethics v. Carrigan, which considers whether it is unconstitutional for Nevada law to require legislators to recuse themselves from voting on or advocating the passage or failure of a bill in a situation where a legislator has a personal conflict of interest; Flores-Villar v. United States, a case concerning gender and age discrimination in immigration law whereby the law imposes a five year residency requirement after the age of fourteen on an unmarried citizen father but only a one year residency requirement with no age limit on an unmarried citizen mother in order to confer citizenship on a child born out of wedlock in another country; United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation, wherein the Court had to decide whether the U.S. government could use the attorney-client privilege to withhold from an Indian Tribe documents relating to lands and assets which the U.S. holds in trust for the tribe, or whether the Indian tribe, as a beneficiary of the trust has an unfettered right to such documents. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Nevada Comm’n on Ethics v. Carrigan (10-568) Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders (09-525) United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation (10-382) Flores-Villar v. United States (09-5801) Bond v. United States (09-1227) Davis v. United States (09-11328) J. D. B. v. North Carolina (09-11121) Smith v. Bayer Corp. (09-1205) Tapia v. United States (10-5400) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download) Smith v. Louisiana (LA) - Petition, Opposition, Reply Setser v. United States (5th Cir.) Gonzalez v. Thaler (5th Cir.) Hall v. United States (9th Cir.) | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 11th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | The Court this week issued eight opinions and granted certiorari to one new case. Our first segment yesterday covered three opinions and the grant of certiorari. Today we cover the remaining five opinions, including: DePierre v. United States, here the court determined whether the term "cocaine base" as used in federal law refers only to crack cocaine or to all forms of cocaine base, including, but not limited to crack cocaine - the determination of which could mean the difference between a mandatory sentence of 10 years for the defendant; Sykes v. United States, a case which asked the Court to answer the question of whether fleeing from cops in a car should be considered a "violent felony" for the purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act; Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co., which considers whether a state public utility commission can require AT&T to provide smaller competitors access to certain parts of their network at reduced rates; Fox v. Vice, a case seeking clarification on the standard that should be applied to a fee-shifting statute, 42 USC § 1988, which in part permits a defendant in certain civil rights cases, including § 1983 cases, to be reimbursed attorneys’ fees for having to defend against frivolous claims; and McNeill v. United States, which concerns whether when determining whether a state drug crime constitutes a “serious drug offense” under the Armed Career Criminal Act a court must use the “maximum term of imprisonment” applicable to a defendant’s prior state drug offense at the time of the defendant’s conviction for that offense. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) DePierre v. United States (09-1533) Sykes v. United States (09-11311) Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co. (10-313) Fox v. Vice (10-114) McNeill v. United States (10-5258) | 6/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 10th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | The Court this week issued eight opinions and granted certiorari to one new case. Our first segment today will cover four cases including: Stanford v. Roche Molecular - here the Supreme Court must consider whether under federal law, inventions created by an employee of Stanford University, using federal funds, automatically vested in the University, or whether the employee could sell or give the invention to a third party - the particular invention in question was a nobel prize winning technique for quantifying HIV in a person's blood; Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership, which concerns when being sued for patent infringement does a defendant who raises the defense of patent invalidity have to prove such invalidity by clear and convincing evidence or simply by a preponderance of the evidence; Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton, which answers the question of whether securities fraud plaintiffs must prove loss causation in order to obtain class certification; and Martinez v. Ryan, which concerns whether a defendant has a constitutional right to effective assistance of council in his first collateral post-conviction relief proceeding to pursue a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel in a state which bars him from pursuing his ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim during direct appeal. Our next installment of the podcast will cover five more cases, including Sykes v. United States, which considers whether fleeing cops in a vehicle should automatically be considered a violent felony such that it would count towards a sentencing enhancement law calling for a mandatory 15 year minimum sentence. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (09-1159) Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership (10-290) Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co. (09-1403) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Martinez v. Ryan (9th Cir.) | 6/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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June 3rd - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the Court issued two opinions and granted certiorari to one new case. We consider each of these cases in turn: Ashcroft v. al-Kidd answers the question of whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft is entitled to qualified immunity and thus immune from a suit for monetary damages alleging that he instructed his subordinates to misuse the material witness statue as a pretext to detain a U.S. citizen which he mistakenly believed was connected to terrorists - causing al-Kidd to spend 15 days in jail and ultimately to lose his job; Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB considers a case between a french deep fryer maker and a Hong Kong deep fryer maker and whether the criminal law doctrine of "willful blindness" can be imported into patent law to prove knowledge of a patent for the purposes of induced infringement; and Perry v. New Hampshire, concerns whether, as a matter of law, courts must conduct a reliability analysis before admission of eyewitness evidence at trial in all cases where suggestive circumstances exist or only when the suggestive circumstances were orchestrated by the police. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Ashcroft v. al-Kidd (10-98) Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S. A. (10-6) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Perry v. New Hampshire (New Hampshire) | 6/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May 28th - Part II - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This was a busy week at the court and our podcast this week will come to you in two segments. The Court this week issued six opinions and granted certiorari to one new case. Part I will cover three cases including Brown v. Plata - a controversial case in which the Supreme Court upheld the order of a three judge federal court requiring California to reduce its prison population which was at 200% capacity at one time. Many believe that this order could lead to the release of tens of thousands of inmates. Part II will cover four more cases including Chamber of Commerce of United States of America v. Whiting, in which the Supreme Court upheld an Arizona Immigration law which threatens businesses in Arizona with losing their licenses to conduct business in the state if they intentionally employ illegal aliens. As usual, the full opinions of the justices are available for your review below. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Chamber of Commerce of United States of America v. Whiting (09-115) Fowler v. United States (10-5443) United States v. Tinklenberg (09-1498) Camreta v. Greene (09-1454) | 5/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May 28th - Part I - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This was a busy week at the court and our podcast this week will come to you in two segments. The Court this week issued six opinions and granted certiorari to one new case. Part I will cover three cases including Brown v. Plata - a controversial case in which the Supreme Court upheld the order of a three judge federal court requiring California to reduce its prison population which was at 200% capacity at one time. Many believe that this order could lead to the release of tens of thousands of inmates. Part II will cover four more cases including Chamber of Commerce of United States of America v. Whiting, in which the Supreme Court upheld an Arizona Immigration law which threatens businesses in Arizona with losing their licenses to conduct business in the state if they intentionally employ illegal aliens. As usual, the full opinions of the justices are available for your review below. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Brown v. Plata (09-1233) General Dynamics Corp. v. United States (09-1298) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Kawashima v. Holder (9th Circuit) | 5/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May 20th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the Court granted certiorari to one case and issued three opinions. The Court granted certiorari in a Ninth Circuit case, Minneci v. Pollard, which concerns whether to allow a new category of constitutional law suits - claims against federal contractors for violations of constitutional rights. The case stems out of a lawsuit brought by a prisoner in a federal facility who brought an action against federal contractors who allegedly subjected him to cruel and unusual punishment after he fractured both his arms. The Court issued three opinions: Kentucky v. King (09-1272) (further clarifying the exigent circumstances exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement); CIGNA Corp. v. Amara (09-804) (ERISA); and Schindler Elevator Corp. v. United States ex rel. Kirk (10-188) (FOIA and the Federal Claims Act). Links to the full text opinions appear below. CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Minneci v. Pollard (9th Circuit) OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Kentucky v. King (09-1272) CIGNA Corp. v. Amara (09-804) Schindler Elevator Corp. v. United States ex rel. Kirk (10-188) | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Notable Oral Arguments - Texas v. Johnson | This week the Court did not issue any orders or opinions. The Court did meet in private conference on Thursday this week and is expected to issue decisions from that conference on Monday. This week we consider the oal arguments in the 1989 case of Texas v. Johnson - which concerned whether the First Amendment protected the right of a person to burn the American flag. The case involved a Texas statute which prohibited the desecration of a venerated object and a man, Gregory Lee Johnson, who burned an American flag at the 1984 Republican National Convention and was arrested and convicted for it. Texas v. Johnson (1989) (click to download) Oral Argument Transcript Opinion United States v. Eichman (1990) - Opinion Held unconstitutional a federal law making it a federal crime to desecrate the flag. Spence v. Washington (1974) - Opinion The defendant was prosecuted for displaying a United States flag upside down with a peace symbol taped to it, which violated Washington's "improper use" statute forbidding the exhibition of a United States flag by attaching or superimposing figures, symbols, or other extraneous material to it. The Supreme Court held that the statute impermissibly infringed the defendant's constitutional right to freedom of expression. Grayned v. City of Rockford (1972) - Opinion On April 25, 1969, approximately 200 people, including students and their family members and friends, marched around a sidewalk about 100-feet from a school building carrying signs some of which read "Black cheerleaders to cheer too"; "Black history with black teachers" and "Equal rights, Negro counselors." After warning the demonstrators, the police arrested 40 of them, including Grayned who was tried and convicted of violating two ordinances, an "anti-picketing" ordinance and an "anti-noise" ordinance. A $25 fine was imposed for each violation. The Court concluded there that the anti-picketing ordinance was unconstitutional, but that the anti-noise ordinance was not. The anti-noise ordinance prohibited a person while on grounds adjacent to a building in which a school is in session from willfully making a noise or diversion that disturbs or tends to disturb the peace. Justice Marshall for the Court held that the anti-noise statute was not unconstitutionally vague or overbroad. Street v. New York (1969) - Opinion A person, after hearing a news broadcast of the shooting of James Meredith, a civil rights leader, took an American flag to a street corner near his home in New York and ignited the flag. He was arrested and thereafter charged with violating a New York Penal Law, which made it a crime publicly to mutilate or "publicly defy . . . or cast contempt upon [any American flag] either by words or act." The Court held the statute unconstitutional because it permitted a person to be punished merely for speaking defiant or contemptuous words about the American Flag - the Court there, however, did not reach the issue of whether New York could outlaw the act of burning the flag. Feiner v. New York (1951) - Opinion A speaker made an inflammatory speech to a mixed crowd of 75 or 80 African-Americans and white people on a city street. He made derogatory remarks about President Truman, the American Legion, and local political officials, endeavored to arouse the Blacks against the whites, and urged that Blacks rise up in arms and fight for equal rights. The crowd, which blocked the sidewalk and overflowed into the street, became restless. After observing the situation for some time without interference, police officers, in order to prevent a fight, requested the petitioner to get off the box and stop speaking three times. After his third refusal, and after he had been speaking over 30 minutes, they arrested him, and he was convicted of violating the Penal Code of New York, which, forbade incitement of a breach of the peace. The Supreme Court held that the | 5/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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May 6th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the court issued two opinions and granted certiorari to two cases. We review both opinions and grants of certiorari on this week’s show. The first of the the two opinions, Montana v. Wyoming, concerns whether improvements in irrigation systems by Wyoming farmers from flood irrigation to sprinkler irrigation was illegal under the Yellowstone River Compact because it reduced the total amount of water that would eventually flow to Montana. The second opinion in Bobby v. Mitts concerns whether the 6th Circuit had appropriately held that under the reasoning of the Supreme Court's decision in Beck v. Alabama an Ohio trial court judge could not tell a sentencing jury that if they found that the aggravating circumstance to outweigh the mitigating factors in a capitol case then they must return a sentence of death. We next consider the grants in M.B.Z. v. Clinton which considers whether the political question doctrine and whether the federal courts may even consider a challenge to a congressional law which in 2002 declared jerusalem the capitol of israel and directed the State Department to reflect this fact on consular documents which the Executive Branch under Bush and now Obama refused to do. Finally we review the grant of certiorari in CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood, which considers whether the words “right to sue” in a federal law giving consumers the right to sue Credit Repair Organizations and another subsection of the law that invalidates any waivers of the right to sue works to invalidate arbitration agreements. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Montana v. Wyoming (137, Orig.) Bobby v. Mitts (10-1000) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) M.B.Z. v. Clinton (DC Circuit) CompuCredit Corp. v. Greenwood (9th Circuit) CASE MATERIALS Sample Consular Report of Birth Abroad | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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April 30th - This Week's Oral Arguments | On Thursday we issued reports on the Court's two opinions this week. Today, we bring you up to speed on the Court's last week of oral arguments this term. We review: Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., which concerns whether Vermont can pass a law prohibiting pharmacies from collecting data on what drugs are prescribed by doctors and selling that data to third parties without first obtaining consent from doctors or that is an impermissible limit on commercial speech under the First Amendment; Nevada Comm. on Ethics v. Carrigan - Nevada law requires legislators to recuse themselves from votes in which they have a conflict of interest - here a legislator who was voting on an application by a casino disclosed that his longtime friend and campaign manager was a consultant for the casino but the legislator still took part in the vote - the Ethics Commission subsequently censured him which led to this suit in which he claimed that the statute was overbroad and a prior restraint on his free speech rights; Erica John Fund v. Halliburton Co., which presents the question to the Court of in what stage of a class action lawsuit by shareholders against a company for fraud on the market must the shareholders prove that the alleged fraud caused a drop in the share prices? ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. (10-779) Audio Transcript McNeill v. United States (10-5258) Audio Transcript Nevada Comm. on Ethics v. Carrigan (10-568) Audio Transcript Erica John Fund v. Halliburton Co. (09-1403) Audio Transcript | 4/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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April 28th - This Week's Opinions | This week the Court issued two opinions. We consider both in this segment. The first in United States v. Tohono O'Odham Nation concerns whether an Indian tribe can bring simultaneous lawsuits before the Court of Federal Claims and a U.S. District Court when both lawsuits involve the same set of facts, yet request different types of relief. The second in AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion considers a lawsuit brought by two cellphone subscribers against AT&T for false advertising and decides the issue of whether the unconscionability doctrine may apply to bar the enforcement of a class action suit waiver contained in the contract AT&T provided to its wireless consumers as the California courts held it did. Our coverage of this week’s oral arguments will be released on Saturday (oral argument audio is not released by the Supreme Court until Friday afternoon). OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion (09-893) United States v. Tohono O’odham Nation (09-846) | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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April 22nd - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the Court granted certiorari to one case, issued two opinions, issued a statement regarding a denial of certiorari and heard four cases in oral arguments. We begin with a short review of the courts two sovereign immunity opinions and a statement by four justices regarding the denial of certiorari in Kiyemba v. Obama. We review four oral arguments this week: Tapia v. US, which considers whether it is proper for a federal judge to sentence a defendant to a longer prison sentence for the sole reason that the defendant can take part in a drug rehabilitation program in prison; American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut, which consider whether states and private parties may sue utilities for contributing to global warming under federal law in; US v. Jicarilla Apache Nation, which asks whether the federal government which manages funds as a fiduciary on behalf of the Jicarilla Apache Nation may claim attorney-client privilege in a dispute by the Nation against the federal government for the mismanagement of those funds; and Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership, a 240 million dollar lawsuit against Microsoft which asks the court to decide if Microsoft in defending itself and arguing that the patent it is accused of violating was invalid must prove invalidity of the patent by clear and convincing evidence as the trial court required or some lesser showing as Microsoft would have it. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Sossamon v. Texas (08-1438) Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy v. Stewart (09-529) STATEMENT REGARDING DENIAL OF CERTIORARI (click on case name to download statement) Kiyemba v. Obama (10-775) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Judulang v. Holder (9th Circuit) ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) Tapia v. United States (10-5400) Audio Transcript Microsoft Corp. v. i4i Ltd. Partnership (10-290) Audio Transcript American Elec. Power Co. v. Connecticut (10-174) Audio Transcript United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation (10-382) Audio Transcript | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Notable Oral Arguments - Lawrence v. Texas | This week the Court did not issue any orders or opinions and heard no cases in oral arguments. We, therefore, dip into the Supreme Court’s oral arguments archive and listen to the oral arguments in a 2003 case, Lawrence v. Texas, in which the Supreme Court in a 6-3 ruling struck down a s****y law in Texas that made it a crime for individuals of the same sex to engage in deviant sexual i*********e, which had been interpreted to include both anal and oral sex. RELEVANT CASE MATERIALS (click on case name to download) Lawrence v. Texas Opinion (02-102) Bowers v. Hardwick Opinion (85-140) Bowers v. Hardwick Oral Argument Griswold v. Connecticut Opinion (496) Griswold v. Connecticut Oral Argument | 4/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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April 8th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the Court issued two opinions and granted certiorari to two new cases. We first review the case of Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, which decided whether state taxpayers have standing to challenge a tax credit for donations to private schools, including religious ones, as a violation of the Establishment Clause. We next consider the Court’s opinion in Cullen v. Pinholster, which considered and decided a state prisoner’s petition for federal habeas corpus relief. Lastly, we consider the Court’s grant of certiorari this week in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington, which brings to the Court the issue of whether a jail’s policy of conducting a strip search, including a visual check of body cavities, is constitutional when it is done on individuals arrested for even minor offenses such as a traffic stop or an unpaid warrant. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn (09-987) Cullen v. Pinholster (09-1088) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington (3rd Circuit) | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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April 1st - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the Court granted certiorari to one case, issued three opinions and heard seven cases in oral arguments. We first review the case of Walmart v. Dukes where the Supreme Court must determine whether the largest class action law suit in history--- 500,000 female employees of Wal-Mart retail stores-- can proceed to court based on the claim that Wal-Mart's corporate culture, is the common cause of gender discrimination against all women working for Wal-mart nationwide. We next consider the Court’s opinion in Connick v. Thompson, which considered whether a man who served 18 years in prison, before discovering exculpatory evidence that an assistant district attorney had failed to turn over at trial, may sue the district attorney's office seeking damages for failing to adequately train his assistants on their Brady obligations. We next review the Court’s oral arguments in Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club Pac v. Bennett, considering the constitutionality of Arizona's campaign finance law that offers candidates for state office government funds for their campaigns if they agree not to seek private funding - the purpose of which was to reduce the influence of big money special interests in elections. We next discuss the Court’s grant of certiorari in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC, which concerns the "ministerial exception" to the American with Disabilities Act which generally bars most disability discrimination lawsuits by employees of religious institutions who perform religious functions - the question here is whether the ministerial exception applies to a parochial school teacher who spends most of her time teaching secular classes. Lastly, we review the Court’s oral arguments in Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co., in which the Court considers whether a state public utility commission can require AT&T to provide smaller competitors access to certain parts of their network at reduced rates. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Tolentino v. New York (09-11556) Astra USA, Inc. v. Santa Clara County (09-1273) Connick v. Thompson (09-571) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC (6th Circuit) ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club Pac v. Bennett (10-238) Audio Transcript CSX Transp., Inc. v. McBride (10-235) Audio Transcript Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes (10-277) Audio Transcript Fowler v. United States (10-5443) Audio Transcript Pliva, Inc. v. Mensing (09-993) Audio Transcript Talk America, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Telephone Co. (10-313) Audio Transcript | 4/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mar. 25th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the court granted certiorari to two new cases, issued three opinions, four justices issued a statement concerning a denial of certiorari, and the court heard six cases in oral arguments. We discuss: Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano, which involves the popular cold remedy Zicam, and whether Matrixx Initiatives, the manufacturer of Zicam, violated federal securities law by failing to disclose reports of a possible link between Zicam and the permanent loss of smell; Felkner v. Jackson, which reverses a Ninth Circuit judgment on a Batson claim holding that the trial judge was not unreasonable when he accepted the prosecution's reasoning for dismissing 2 out of 3 black jurors on the jury panel of a black defendant during jury selection; Rehberg v. Paulk, which concerns whether a government official who acts as a “complaining witness” by presenting perjured testimony against an innocent citizen is entitled to absolute immunity from a Section 1983 civil suit for damages; J.D.B. v. North Carolina, which concerns whether juveniles’ age should be a factor in determining when they are in custody for Miranda purposes; and Davis v. US, which considers whether new supreme court precedents which affect the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule should apply retroactively to cases that are not yet final if doing so would work to exclude evidence that at the time of the search was legally obtained. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. Siracusano (09-1156) Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. (09-834) Felkner v. Jackson (10-797) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Maples v. Thomas (11th Circuit) Rehberg v. Paulk (11th Circuit) ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) Davis v. United States (09-11328) Audio Transcript Tolentino v. New York (09-11556) Audio Transcript Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri (09-1476) Audio Transcript Fox v. Vice (10-113) Audio Transcript Turner v. Rogers (10-10) Audio Transcript J.D.B. v. North Carolina (10-11121) Audio Transcript | 3/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mar. 11th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the Court issued three opinions and granted certiorari to one new case. The Court did not hear any cases in oral arguments. We first discuss the Court’s opinion in Milner v. US Navy, which concerns whether the U.S. Navy can withhold information from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request relating to weapons and explosives in Puget Sound by claiming that information therein satisfies an exception to FOIA relating to the internal personnel matters of the Navy. We next discuss the Court’s grant of certiorari in Golan v. Holder, which concerns whether Congress has the power to remove artistic works from the public domain and restore their copyright protection. We next turn to the Court’s opinion in Skinner v. Switzer, which resolves the question of whether a death row inmate may seek DNA evidence to challenge his conviction by way of a §1983 claim, rather than by way of a habeas corpus petition. Finally, we review the Court’s opinion in Wall v. Kholi. which provides answers on how broad one may read the "collateral review" exception tolling the one year statute of limitations for the the filing of a federal habeas corpus petition under the AEDPA. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Milner v. Department of Navy (09-1163) Wall v. Kholi (09-868) Skinner v. Switzer (09-9000) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Golan v. Holder (Tenth Circuit) | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mar. 5th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | The court this week issued six opinions and heard another six cases in oral arguments. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Michigan v. Bryant (09-150) FCC v. AT&T Inc. (09-1279) Staub v. Proctor Hospital (09-400) Henderson v. Shinseki (09-1036) Snyder v. Phelps (09-751) Pepper v. United States (09-6822) ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) DePierre v. United States (09-1533) Audio Transcript Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior Univ. v. Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. (09-1159) Audio Transcript Camreta v. Greene (09-1454) Audio Transcript Schindler Elevator Corp. v. United States ex rel. Kirk (10-188) Audio Transcript Bullcoming v. New Mexico (09-10876) Audio Transcript Ashcroft v. al-Kidd (10-98) Audio Transcript | 3/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Feb. 25th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the Court issued four opinions, granted certiorari to two new cases and heard four cases in oral arguments. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC (09-152) CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Alabama Dept. of Revenue (09-520) Walker v. Martin (09-996) Williamson v. Mazda Motor of America, Inc. (08-1314) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Pacific Operations Offshore, LLP v. Valladolid (Ninth Circuit) Stok & Associates v. Citibank (11th Circuit) ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) Bond v. United States (09-1227) Audio Transcript United States v. Tinklenberg (09-1498) Audio Transcript Freeman v. United States (09-10245) Audio Transcript Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB S.A. (10-6) Audio Transcript | 2/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Profile of Justice Samuel Alito | For the last two weeks the Court has not heard oral arguments or issued any orders or opinions and is not expected to do so until next week when Supreme Podcast will return with regular coverage of the Court. This week, however, we continue with our Profiles of the Justices series, profiling Justice Samuel Alito. You may find our previous profiles of Justices Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Breyer on iTunes or on our website supremepodcast.com. Prior Justice Profiles (click on name below to access episode) Chief Justice John G. Roberts Justice Antonin Scalia Justice Anthony Kennedy Justice Clarence Thomas Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Justice Stephen Breyer | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jan. 28th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the Court issued four opinions and granted certiorari to two new cases. The Court did not hear any cases in oral arguments. On Thursday, Chief Justice John G. Roberts celebrated his fifty-sixth birthday. We begin with the Court's opinion in Thompson v. N. Am. Stainless, wherein a company is accused of firing an employee's husband after the wife filed a sex discrimination case against the company - the issue being whether the husband can maintain a suit against the company under Title 7. We next review the Court's opinion in Chase Bank v. McCoy - which seeks to determine whether a credit card company was required to notify a credit card customer of an interest rate hike under Federal Law prior to the enactment of Truth in Lending legislation. Finally, we consider the Court's grant of certiorari in Howes v. Fields, a case which seeks to determine the boundaries of custody for Miranda purposes. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Thompson v. North American Stainless, LP (09-291) Ortiz v. Jordan (09-737) Chase Bank USA, N. A. v. McCoy (09-329) Swarthout v. Cooke (10-333) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Howes v. Fields (Sixth Circuit) Reynolds v. United States (Third Circuit) | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jan. 22nd - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the Court issued three opinions, granted certiorari to three new cases, and heard five cases in oral arguments. We first review a case the Court heard in oral arguments this week - FCC v. AT&T Inc. - which is a case that seeks to determine whether corporations may avoid disclosure of documents pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request by invoking the "personal privacy" exception under the statute. We next review three cases granted certiorari this week concerning whether cuts in medicaid payments in violation of federal law can be challenged by private individuals and entities in federal court. We then review the Court's opinion in Nasa v. Nelson, which concerns whether the government may require government contractors undergoing a standard background check to report any recent drug use or treatment received for drug use or whether such information is protected from compelled disclosure under the Constitution. Finally, we review the courts opinion in two ineffective assistance of counsel cases - Harrington v. Richter and Premo v. Moore. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) NASA v. Nelson (09-530) Premo v. Moore (09-658) Harrington v. Richter (09-587) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Maxwell-Jolly v. Independ’t Living Center of Southern California (Ninth Circuit) Maxwell-Jolly v. California Pharmacists Association (Ninth Circuit) Maxwell-Jolly v. Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital (Ninth Circuit) ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) General Dynamics Corp. v. United States (09-1298) Audio Transcript Smith v. Bayer Corp. (09-1205) Audio Transcript Stern v. Marshall (10-179) Audio Transcript FCC v. AT&T Inc. (09-1279) Audio Transcript Astra USA, Inc. v. Santa Clara County (09-1273) Audio Transcript | 1/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jan. 15th - This Week at the United States Supreme Court | This week the Court granted certiorari to seven new cases, issued three opinions and decisions, heard six cases in oral arguments, and Justice Thomas joined by Justice Scalia issued one dissenting opinion from a denial of certiorari. We begin with the Court’s opinion in Mayo Foundation for Medical Ed. and Research v. United States which sought to change an IRS rule that medical school residents are full time employees not exempt from income taxes even though their work is educational in nature. We then review a case heard in oral arguments this week - Kentucky v. King, a case which seeks guidance from the Supreme Court on whether cops who enter a home without a warrant may do so when they themselves are responsible for creating the emergency circumstances that would typically justify entering a home without a warrant. We next review the Court's grant of certiorari this week in the case of United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation, a case brought by the Jicarilla Apache Nation attempting to resolve the question of whether the United States is permitted to assert attorney-client privilege to withhold documents relating to transactions on behalf of the Nation in light of the special fiduciary duty and relationship the US Government has assumed with regard to the Nation. We then consider the grant of certiorari in Lafler v. Cooper wherein a defendant argues that even though he received a fair trial his counsel provided him with ineffective counsel at the plea bargaining stage before trial and but for his counsel's erroneous advise he would have accepted a plea which would have resulted in a substantially lower sentence. Finally, we consider the dissenting opinion of Justice Thomas joined by Justice Scalia in Alderman v. United States, a case which challenges Congress's power to make a law preventing former felons from possessing bullet proof vests and other body armor. OPINIONS OF THE COURT (click on case name to download opinion) Madison County v. Oneida Indian Nation of N. Y. (10-72) Mayo Foundation for Medical Ed. and Research v. United States (09-837) Ransom v. FIA Card Services, N. A. (09-907) CASES GRANTED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co. (Fifth Circuit) Lafler v. Cooper (Sixth Circuit) Missouri v. Frye (Missouri) United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation (Federal Circuit) Nevada Commission on Ethics v. Carrigan (Nevada) Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. (Second Circuit) McNeill, Clifton T. v. United States (Fourth Circuit) CASES DENIED CERTIORARI (click on case name to download dissenting Justice’s opinion) Alderman v. United States (09-1555) ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) Matrixx Initiatives v. Siracusano (09-1156) Audio Transcript Montana v. Wyoming (137-Orig.) Audio Transcript J. McIntyre Machinery, Ltd. v. Nicastro (09-1343) Audio Transcript Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations, S.A. v. Brown (10-76) Audio Transcript Sykes v. United States (09-11311) Audio Transcript Kentucky v. King (09-1272) Audio Transcript | 1/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010 Year in Review | This week we review Chief Justice Roberts’ Annual Report on the Federal Judiciary and the major cases the court decided in 2010. 2010 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary (click below to download) Annual Report Corporate Electioneering Rights Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm'n (08-205) Dogfighting Videos and the First Amendment United States v. Stevens (08-769) Juvenile Life Imprisonment Graham v. Florida (08-7412) Employee Privacy Rights in Text Messages Ontario v. Quon (08-1332) Honest Services Fraud Skilling v. United States (08-1394) Black v. United States (08-876) Second Amendment Individual Gun Ownership Rights McDonald v. Chicago (08-1521) Miranda Rights Cases Florida v. Powell (08-1175) Maryland v. Shatzer (08-680) Berghuis v. Thompkins (08-1470) | 1/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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