Here are sketches from three of the five cases argued in the Supreme Court during this first week of the October 2016 term (wish I hadn’t skipped Tuesday’s bank fraud argument, Shaw v. U.S., and missed Justice Breyer’s Kardashian hypothetical ).…
Category: Supreme Court
First Arguments In October
Posted in Arguments, Supreme Court Tagged with: Death Penalty, Double Jeopardy, Insider Trading, SCOTUS
First Monday In October . . .
. . or the all catholic bench. As the first day of Rosh Hashanah this year coincided with the first day of the Supreme Court’s new term no arguments were heard on Monday. Justices Ginsburg, Breyer and Kagan were absent, presumably…
SCOTUS Ends With A Bang, Not A Whimper
It’s been a strange Supreme Court term, like a meal that doesn’t satisfy. With only eight members on the bench after Justice Scalia’s death the odds were good that the last blockbuster opinion of the term would fall to a…
Posted in Opinions, Supreme Court Tagged with: Abortion, Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Alito, Justice Breyer, Texas, Whole Woman's Health
Monday’s Undecisions
The big news of course on Monday was the Supreme Court’s per curiam opinion in Zubik v. Burwell (and other consolidated cases) that decided nothing but encouraged the two sides to reach a compromise. The other case left hanging is…
Posted in Opinions, Supreme Court Tagged with: ACA, Contraception, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Little Sisters of the Poor, RFRA, Spokeo, Zubik
Opinion: Ocasio v. United States
An interesting case, and not just because I live in Baltimore. Majestic Auto Repair was paying up to $300 for each damaged vehicle Baltimore police would steer their way from the scene of an accident. By the time the FBI…
Posted in Opinions, Supreme Court Tagged with: Bribery, Conspiracy, Extortion, Hobbs Act, Justice Alito
Copyright Fee Awards and Patent Law Arguments
The Supreme Court heard their last argument of the term yesterday, an appeal of former Virginia governor McDonnell’s conviction for accepting gifts and favors in exchange for “official acts”. I wasn’t there to sketch it. Instead I was covering the…
Arizona Redistricting Opinion and DUI Argument
On Wednesday the Supreme Court released three opinions, two of which made news, one of which – Harris v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission – I sketched. I would’ve sketched the opinion in Bank Markazi v Peterson, that upheld a law…
Posted in Arguments, Opinions, Supreme Court Tagged with: Arizona, DUI, Justice Breyer, Redistricting, Voting Rights Act
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Admissions To The Bar
iPads and smartphones are not normally permitted in the courtroom but an exception was made for members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Bar Association at the Supreme Court on Tuesday for the swearing in ceremony. American Sign Language…
Deferred Action For Parents Of Americans . . .
. . . and Lawful Permanent Residents, or DAPA, was before the Supreme Court today. A very large crowd supporting the president’s immigration policy was gathered in front of the Court’s plaza. Some had been there since Friday hoping to…
Justice Ginsburg Has The Opinion Of The Court . . .
. . . in Evenwel v. Abbott. Wearing her gold, star-pointy, jabot-like whatchamacallit Ginsburg announced the unanimous decision that “one person, one vote” means Texas may draw voting districts according to total population as it does now, and is not…
Posted in Opinions, Supreme Court Tagged with: Evenwel, Hiroshige, Justice Ginsburg, One Person One Vote, Voting
