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BP v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
Can the oil company defendants get the climate change case against them removed to federal court?
Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski
Can Uzuegbunam get nominal relief from his college for restrictive speech policies that the college now removed?
Trump v. New York
Can the Trump administration re-tabulate the census count before determining House apportionment?
Carney v. Adams
Delaware limits positions on several high courts to the two major political parties. Do the limits violate an Independent’s First Amendment rights to free association?
Tanzin v. Tanvir
Can Tanvir and co. get money damages from the federal officers who tried to convince them to be spies?
Facebook v. Duguid
Does the law prohibiting auto-calls cover a device without a random or sequential number generator?
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Dustin Higgs was executed at 1:23 AM, two hours after a majority of the Supreme Court, over sharp dissents, cleared the way. The court relied on a rarely used procedure to issue a decision before an appeals court could weigh in.
Our story on the decision: https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/01/over-sharp-dissents-court-intervenes-to-allow-federal-government-to-execute-13th-person-in-six-months/
The U.S. carried out the final execution of President Trump’s term, the 13th since July and the third this week. https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-approves-last-execution-of-president-trumps-term-11610770914
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows federal government to proceed with the execution of #DustinHiggs tonight, reversing lower courts that had put the execution on hold. Breyer, Sotomayor & Kagan dissent.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20-927_i42k.pdf#page=5
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The Trump administration plans to conduct its final execution tonight, the third this week and the 13th since July. The Justice Department has asked the Supreme Court to lift a stay of execution so that Dustin Higgs may be put to death on schedule.
An inmate with Covid-19 was executed after the Supreme Court rejected claims that the infection could lead to exceptional pain https://on.wsj.com/35EbNN6
Will we see a retirement on the Supreme Court this year?
Listen to the latest SCOTUStalk with our co-founders @AHoweBlogger and @TomGoldsteinSB as they talk about what has happened this past year and what may be in store in the future.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/01/looking-back-and-looking-ahead-during-a-transitional-term-for-the-court/
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This piece about life in Washington these days is crowned with the Supreme Court's new look: The Capitol was attacked last week. But Washingtonians have been reeling for months. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/15/washington-dc-under-siege/
Brief security-related update from the Supreme Court. No paper filings through Inauguration Day.
#SCOTUS announces that for Inauguration-related security reasons, it will not accept paper filings between Jan. 15 & Jan. 20. It also notes that change "does not affect filing deadlines": https://www.supremecourt.gov/deliveryofdocuments.aspx
For security reasons, #SCOTUS won’t accept in-person paper filings through Jan. 20
Yes, the Senate does have the power to try a former president, @RosenJeffrey says in this morning's @playbookplus. And if the Senate agrees, the Supreme Court should not, and likely will not, intervene.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/01/15/how-the-constitution-could-decide-trumps-fate-491425?cid=su_tw_pb
UK Supreme Court hands businesses victory in COVID-19 insurance ruling http://reut.rs/3igpKpy
UPDATED: An inmate with Covid-19 was executed after the Supreme Court rejected claims that the infection could lead to exceptional pain https://www.wsj.com/articles/inmate-with-covid-19-executed-after-supreme-court-clears-way-11610686959?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJ
An inmate with Covid-19 was executed after the Supreme Court cleared the way https://www.wsj.com/articles/inmate-with-covid-19-executed-after-supreme-court-clears-way-11610686959?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJ
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