This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address, among other things, the ability of a court to exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant when the defendant knew its conduct would have in-state effects but the conduct occurred outside the state, the...
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address, among other things, the requirements for a state drug offense to qualify as a “serious drug offense” under the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984; the law a court is required to apply...
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address whether federal preclusion principles limit the what defenses a defendant can raise when a plaintiff asserts new claims and when a state law might be exempt from the dormant commerce clause. The petitions of the...
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address, among other things, whether the time limit for seeking review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit under 5 U.S.C. § 7703(b)(1)(A) can be extended, the constitutional limitation on venue selection...
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address, among other things, the constitutionality of requiring an ultrasound as part of informed consent before an abortion, the standard for establishing that a statement is a true threat unprotected by the First Amendment,...
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address whether Congress abrogated state sovereign immunity through the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act and the framework for evaluating a First Amendment retaliation claim based on an employee’s association with a public-sector union. The petitions of the...
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address, among other things, the proper test for an equal-terms claim under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, the constitutionality of a state’s prohibiting political action committees from transferring money to other political...
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address, among other things, the availability of tribal sovereign immunity in inter partes review, a probate-estate beneficiary’s ability to establish a direct injury for a RICO claim in certain circumstances, and the state subsidies...
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address, among other things, the scrutiny applicable to a government policy of pretrial detainment for misdemeanor and traffic-offense arrestees based solely on their inability to pay a predetermined bail amount, the requirements for a...
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address what a plaintiff must prove to be entitled to patent damages based on the entire market value of a product; the constitutionality of appointing a labor union to represent and speak for nonmember,...
