May 20th: Recently Filed Petitions
To read this Supreme Court petition, click the heading to open this post, then follow the links! Principal Invs., Inc. v. Harrison, filed on May 13, 2016
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May, 2016
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May, 2016
May 13th: Recently Filed Petition
To read this Supreme Court petition, click the heading to open this post, then follow the link! Nev. Rest. Servs., Inc. v. Clark Cnty., filed on May 6, 2016
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May, 2016
Supreme Court May Clarify (or Muddle) “Discretionary Review”
Pending at the U.S. Supreme Court is a “never-before-raised procedural issue,” raised at the Court’s own prompting in “a truly rare move,” that relates to a requirement that everyone filing a petition for certiorari must address every time on the cover. Every petition cover must insert a lower court’s name in the blank in the [...]
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May, 2016
May 6th: Recently Filed Petition
To read this Supreme Court petition, click the heading to open this post, then follow the link! Bldg. Indus. Ass’n of the Bay Area v. U.S. Dep’t of Commerce, filed on May 3, 2016
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Apr, 2016
The Cockle Legal Briefs Proofreading Process
One of the services most valued by attorneys is proofreading. Because our goal is for all briefs to be as clean as possible when finished, at Cockle Legal Briefs, your documents are proofread, word-for-word, by two professionally-trained legal proofreaders. Our legal proofreaders are trained to read documents for misspellings, grammatical errors, improper sentence structure, and [...]
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Apr, 2016
The Making of a Reversal (part 4)
The previous parts of this look at the docket for a major regulatory case that ended with a decision upholding the government tracked the timelines and procedural stages. This final part looks a bit more closely at the several organizations and people who offered their thoughts to the Court without official invitation or direct interest [...]
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Apr, 2016
April 22nd: Recently Filed Petitions
To read any of these Supreme Court petitions, click the heading to open this post, then follow the links! Pauma Band of the Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pauma & Yuima Reservation v. California, filed on April 18, 2016 DiLeo v. U.S., filed on April 18, 2016
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Apr, 2016
The Making of a Reversal (part 3)
Merits Stage: Once the Court granted certiorari in the consolidated cases, moving it from the petition phase to the merits phase, the Court’s focus shifted from whether to decide the dispute to how to resolve it. And that called for a whole new round of briefing from the parties and any old or new “friends.” [...]
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Apr, 2016
The Making of a Reversal (part 2)
Petition Stage: The linked regulatory cases that are the subject of this four-part look at the Supreme Court’s docket began in the typical way for any request for certiorari review, with final decisions at the top of a chain of lower courts. On May 23, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of [...]
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Apr, 2016
The Making of a Reversal (part 1)
If you follow a big U.S. Supreme Court case in the news, you see an occasional milestone – certiorari petition filed, cert. granted, oral argument, and the decision – and you hear from the lead counsel for the two sides, along with all the commentary from talking heads. If you follow it on the Court’s [...]