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Today’s Orders

By Akin Gump Supreme Court Practice Group

The Order List is available here.

UPDATE: The cert. filings in all four granted cases can be found after the jump.

Docket: 07-513
Case name: Herring v. United States
Issue: Whether the exclusionary rule should apply to evidence seized incident to an arrest unlawful under the Fourth Amendment due to erroneous information negligently provided by another law enforcement agency.

• Opinion below (11th Circuit)
• Petition for certiorari
• Brief in opposition
• Petitioner?s reply

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Docket: 07-581
Case name: 14 Penn Plaza LLC, et al., v. Pyett, et al.
Issue: Whether an arbitration clause in a collective bargaining agreement waiving employees? right to file statutory discrimination claims is enforceable.

• Opinion below (2nd Circuit)
• Petition for certiorari
• Brief in opposition

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Docket: 07-610
Case name: Locke v. Karass
Issue: Whether a public sector union may include in non-members? agency fees costs for litigation outside the bargaining unit.

• Opinion below (1st Circuit)
• Petition for certiorari
• Brief in opposition

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Docket: 07-636
Case name: Kennedy v. Plan Administrator for Dupont Savings and Investment Plan, et al.
Issue: Whether ERISA?s Qualified Domestic Relations Order provision is the only valid way a divorcing spouse can waive her right to receive her ex-husband?s pension benefits under ERISA.

• Petition for certiorari
• Brief in opposition

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Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on February 19, 2008 (boomark / email).