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Today’s Orders

By Akin Gump Supreme Court Practice Group

A copy of today’s orders list is now available here. Links to all available certiorari-stage filings in the two granted cases are available after the jump.

Docket: 07-588, 07-589, 07-597
Case name: Entergy Corp. v. EPA; PSEG Fossil, LLC v. Riverkeeper, Inc.; Utility Water Act Group v. Riverkeeper
Issue: Whether the Clean Water Act permits the EPA to undergo a cost-benefit analysis in determining the most environmentally friendly technology at cooling water intake structures, and to regulate such structures at existing as well as new facilities.

• Opinion below (2nd Circuit)
• Petition for certiorari (Entergy)
• Petition for certiorari (PSEG)
• Petition for certiorari (Utility Water Act Group)
• Brief in opposition (Federal Government)
• Brief in opposition (Riverkeeper)
• Brief in opposition (Rhode Island)
• Petitioner?s reply (Entergy)
• Petitioner?s reply (PSEG)
• Petitioner?s reply (Utility Water Act Group)
• Amicus brief of Nuclear Energy Institute (in support of the petitioners)
• Amicus brief of Cooling Water Intake Structure Coalition (in support of petitioners)
• Amicus brief of Nebraska (in support of Utility Act Water Group)

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Docket: 07-854
Case name: Van de Kamp v. Goldstein
Issue: Whether district attorney supervisors are entitled to civil immunity from allegations they failed to ensure line prosecutors were aware, and thus able to disclose to the defendant, that a jailhouse informant was to receive benefits in exchange for his testimony.

• Opinion below (9th Circuit)
• Petition for certiorari
• Brief in opposition
• Amicus brief of Los Angeles County (in support of the petitioner)
• Amicus brief of the National District Attorneys Association (in support of the petitioner)

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Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on April 14, 2008 (boomark / email).