Legal minds on legal matters and whatever else strikes our fancy.
Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Kurns v. Railroad Friction Products Corp., No. 10-879, on whether the Locomotive Inspection Act preempts state-law tort claims relating to locomotive repairs. I had the honor of previewing the case at SCOTUS Blog today, which you can find here. Attorney David C. Frederick of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, [...]
Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether Government can monitor people through GPS devices without warrants. The case has been covered extensively. Perhaps the most thorough treatment is that from SCOTUS Blog's Lyle Denniston, which can be found here. Orin Kerr over The Volokh Conspiracy also covers both questions: whether the use of a GPS [...]
Lawrence J. Dickson, Ph.D., has filed his Brief of Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners in Florida v. DHHS, No. 11-400, and you can read it here.
We filed two merits briefs this week: Reply Brief for Petitioner in Nat’l Meat Ass’n v. Harris, No. 10-224, filed on November 1, 2011 Brief of Respondents Ctr. for Creative Voices in Media and The Future of Music Coalition in FCC v. Fox, No. 10-1293, filed on November 3, 2011
The Pacific Legal Foundation, Matthew Sissel, Americans for Free Choice in Medicine, and The Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence have filed their Amicus Curiae Brief in Virginia v. Sebelius, No. 11-420, and you can read it here. Timothy Sandefur, counsel of record for the amici and regular contributor to The Cocklebur, has posted his comments on [...]
This morning, Pacific Legal Foundation—joined again by our friends at Americans for Free Choice in Medicine, the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, and our client Matt Sissel—filed this brief in the U.S. Supreme Court urging it to review Virginia’s lawsuit against the Obama Administration’s health care law. This is the second brief PLF filed this week [...]