Recent Decisions
Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez (June 8, 2020)
The Prison Litigation Reform Act's three-strikes provision refers to any dismissal for failure to state a claim, whether with prejudice or without.
GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC (June 1, 2020)
The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards does not conflict with domestic equitable estoppel doctrines that permit the enforcement of arbitration agreements by nonsignatories.
Thole v. U. S. Bank N. A. (June 1, 2020)
Participants in a defined-benefit retirement plan lack Article III standing to sue, alleging mismanagement of the plan's assets.
Banister v. Davis (June 1, 2020)
A Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e) motion to alter or amend a habeas court’s judgment is not a second or successive habeas petition.
Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Aurelius Investment, LLC (June 1, 2020)
Members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board, created by the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act, which was created by Congress under its Article IV power, are not subject to the Appointments Clause.
Latest Supreme Court News
Texas Inmate Who Spent Nearly 40 Years on Death Row Is Granted Parole
The New York Times,
Bobby Moore, 60, had been the center of a landmark case in which the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his death sentence because he is intellectually disabled.
Opinion analysis: Strike out
SCOTUSblog,
The country is anxiously awaiting many momentous Supreme Court decisions: Can the Trump administration abolish DACA? Is LGBT discrimination illegal under Title VII? And so on. But all we got this morning was a unanimous decision in Lomax v. Ortiz-Marquez, this term’s case about the hastily drafted and much-litigated 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act. Not…
The Supreme Court, Too, Is on the Brink
The New York Times,
The polarization roiling the country has the Supreme Court in its grip.
Opinion analysis: Justices reaffirm distinction between first and second habeas petitions
SCOTUSblog,
One of the most significant changes to federal post-conviction habeas review that Congress adopted in 1996 in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act was the dramatic curtailment of second-or-successive habeas suits by which state and federal prisoners can challenge their confinement. But when a prisoner moves to amend a district court judgment denying his…
The Things That Are Caesar’s
Justia's Verdict,
Cornell law professor Sherry F. Colb comments on the recent oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, which raises the question how broadly to construe the word “minister” within the ministerial exception to anti-discrimination law required by the First Amendment. Colb explains where the ministerial exception doctrine might be headed and suggests that an exemption even for criminal misconduct against ministers might be within the existing doctrine.
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