Federal Judiciary

Today at the Court

By Akin Gump Supreme Court Practice Group

Orders from the Justices’ private conference last week are expected at 10 a.m.  To see a list of petitions Tom has deemed to have a reasonable chance of being granted, see our latest edition of Petitions to Watch.

Afterward, the Court will hear oral arguments in two cases:

10 a.m. – The Court will hear the separation-of-powers case Free Enterprise Fund and Beckstead and Watts, LLP v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (08-861), which challenges the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?s creation of an accounting review board.  On Friday, Lyle discussed the issues in the case in his preview for SCOTUSblog.

11 a.m. - At issue in Florida v. Powell (08-1175) is the police duty to expand ?Miranda warnings? before questioning a suspect. Stanford Law School’s Samantha Bateman previewed the case on SCOTUSblog.

For briefs and details in the cases above, click each of their names to visit their pages on SCOTUSwiki.

Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).