The petitions of the day are: Sprint Communications Company, LP v. CenturyTel of Chatham, LLC 17-627 Issues: (1) Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit erred by rejecting the Federal Communications Commission’s determination that failure to pay a tariffed charge is not a violation of...
The justices opened their December argument sitting with a pair of patent cases, both raising questions about the inter partes review process that Congress adopted in 2011 as part of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. First up was Oil States Energy Services v. Greene’s Energy...
[Editor’s note: An earlier version of this post ran on September 11, as an introduction to the blog’s symposium on Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, as well as at Howe on the Court, where it was originally published.] Colorado’s anti-discrimination law bars places...
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The transcript in Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund is available on the Supreme Court’s website; the transcript in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers is also available. The post Argument transcripts appeared first on SCOTUSblog....
That’s the issue in today’s U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit decision in Signature Management Team, LLC v. Doe. The question of whether such a “John Doe” defendant should be unmasked usually arises before judgment, while the case is pending; here, it arose...
Without hearing anything from the Internal Revenue Service, a taxpayer destroys business records that show cash receipts, cash outlays and failure to pay income tax or remit withholding tax. Can he be found to have “corruptly” “obstruct[ed] the due administration of” the tax law, which...
iStock My research on Internet libel takedown orders has profited tremendously from the Lumen Database (formerly ChillingEffects.org), a website to which Google and others archive takedown requests. I’ve seen a couple of orders, though, that purport to bar search engines from posting the orders on Lumen. That,...
School officials in Carroll County, Md., have halted school-related trips to Baltimore — including a marching band’s scheduled performance in the Mayor’s Christmas Parade on Sunday — citing “escalating violence” in the city, reports the Baltimore Sun. Schools spokeswoman Carey Gaddis said the order is...
John Elwood reviews Monday’s relists. Just two new relists this week. If you were trying to come up with a case caption that could make complete strangers blanch in horror and dread, this week’s first relist would be hard to beat: It takes a special person...