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Today at the Supreme Court | 1.5.09

Jason Harrow

January 05, 2009 04:36

No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued from the Court today. The Justices will next convene for their private conference on Friday. Oral arguments will resume January 12.No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued...

Does Boumediene reach to Bagram?

Jason Harrow

January 05, 2009 03:35

Since June, and the Supreme Court’s ruling in Boumediene v. Bush, it has been clear that foreign nationals held as terrorism suspects by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have a constitutional right to challenge their captivity in U.S. courts in Washington.  On Tuesday, a federal ...

The Week Ahead

Jason Harrow

January 03, 2009 18:51

No oral arguments are scheduled at the Court this week. The Justices will hold a private conference on Friday, orders from which could be released that afternoon. To view our list of petition’s to watch at Friday’s conference, click here. The petitioner’s merits brief is due...

Academic Roundup

Jason Harrow

January 03, 2009 04:03

For those that haven’t already read or heard about it, Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson has written an essay forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review entitled “Of Guns, Abortion, and the Unraveling of the Rule of Law,” see here.  In the piece, Judge Wilkinson compares ...

New Filing in Level 3 Communications v. City of St. Louis

Jason Harrow

January 02, 2009 22:24

On Wednesday, we filed this reply brief for our petition in Level 3 Communications v. City of St. Louis.  The petition is here and the brief in opposition is available here. The reply brief also appends an amicus brief we filed contemporaneously in a related case Sprint v. County of San Diego.  S...