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CA1: cert. in Carcieri v. Kempthorne
SCOTUSblog says that Supremes grant cert. in Carcieri v. Kempthorne (our coverage -- 1330 words of it -- is here). Gladys Kravitz says this is all about the casinos.

Supremes deny cert. in AARP-EEOC health benefits case
The Supreme Court on Monday gave employers a green light to reduce health benefits for millions of retirees who turn 65 and become eligible for Medicare. The justices turned away a legal challenge from AARP, the nation's leading senior citizens...

Dawson Update on Supreme Court FMLA Waiver Case
As noted last week, the Solicitor General filed a brief recommending that the government not grant cert. in the FMLA waiver case of Taylor v. Progress Energy, Inc. The case was argued successfully at the appellate level by April Dawson...

Cert. denied in the border fence case
Today the Supreme Court denied cert. in Defenders of Wildlife v. Chertoff, a case that raised some interesting and (in my view at least) important issues about the non-delegation doctrine...

CAFC Theory of First-Sale and Patent Exhaustion Gets Cert.
As if the Supremes hadn’t heard enough patent cases to span a lifetime tenure, now, cert was granted to review Quanta v. LG.  The petitioned argued that the CAFC has been making law rather than following Supreme Court precedent...

The FMLA and Indiana
I was asked a while back if in Indiana is it mandatory for an employer to pay employee while offon medical leave through the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).First, the FMLA is a federal law...