Full Fifth Circuit won’t hear Texas abortion case
By Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decided Thursday that it won’t give full court review to an appeals panel’s decision last week that allowed restrictions on Texas abortion clinics to…
[US] Justices set date to review same-sex marriage petitions
By Tony Mauro, From The National Law Journal The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday placed the same-sex marriage cases from five states on the agenda for discussion at its private conference Sept. 29. After a flurry of briefing in recent…
The Bewley’s Supreme Court Verdict [on rent payable under a lease]
Article by Diarmuid Mawe and Kevin Harnett From Maples and Calder The Supreme Court, in a decision given on 1 July 2014, has overturned a High Court judgment on the interpretation of the rent payable under a lease of the…
The Aereo saga takes a weird turn, with a possible ally and shades of … Obamacare?
From Forbes When Aereo was arguing the case it ultimately lost before the Supreme Court, it went to great pains to argue it wasn’t a cable company. The Court, for its part, wasn’t having it. In its decision, it called…
Why the Supreme Court cellphone ruling is a really big deal
By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai From Mashable Thanks to a unanimous Supreme Court decision on Wednesday, police officers will no longer be allowed to search your cellphone after an arrest without a warrant — a ruling hailed as “groundbreaking” and “big win…
States cling to life sentences for juvenile offenders
By Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal Colby Smith, 18, left, and Evan Miller, 17, pleaded not guilty to a 2003 capital murder and robbery charge in 2006. The pair are accused of killing a 52-year-old man, robbing him of…
US Supreme Court: Cops can’t search your cell phone without a warrant
By Jacob Siegal From BGR The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that police will now be required to obtain a search warrant before they can access the cell phone of an individual they arrest, barring extreme circumstances such as child…
Argentina Asks Supreme Court to Protect It From ‘Vulture’ Hedge Fund
By Peter Coy From Bloomberg It’s hard to decide which is the less sympathetic party appearing before the U.S. Supreme Court today. Is it Argentina, which has repeatedly defaulted on foreign debt? Or is it a hedge fund controlled by…
Aereo infringes says international associations and copyright scholars to SCOTUS
By Barry Sookman From barrysookman.com On March 3 2014, a number of international and foreign associations and copyright scholars filed an Amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States in the ABC, Inc. et al v. Aereo, Inc…
How to buy a politician: What today’s supreme court ruling means for consumers
By Kate Cox From Consumerist Everyone knows that money talks. But today, the Supreme Court made it official: political donations are speech. Therefore, they ruled, the right to free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment applies to them too. And…
