Appellate Law

Court Grants Cert in FCC v. Fox
On Monday, the Supreme Court granted cert and agreed to review the Second Circuit's ruling in Fox v. FCC, 06-1760-ag, that the Commission's policy sanctioning "fleeting expletives" is arbitrary and capricious...

SCOTUS Grants Cert. to Consider Expansion of "Objective Good Faith" Exception to Exclusionary Rule
The U.S. Supreme Court today granted cert. in Herring v. U.S. The question presented in the cert. petition is as follows: Whether the Fourth Amendment requires evidence found during a search incident to an arrest to be suppressed when the...

Supreme Court Grants Cert on an Exclusionary Rule Case
As Kent Scheidegger notes over at Crime and Consequences,the U.S. Supreme Court has granted cert in Herring v. United States, No. 07-513. The Question Presented is:...

Another Right Without a Remedy on the Way: Court Grants Cert in Title IX Preclusion/Peer Sex Harassment Case
SCOTUSblog gives us the heads up (through Live Blog!) that the Supreme Court granted cert. this morning in the Title IX sex-discrimination case of Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee, 07-1125 (opinion below), which grows out of allegations that "paint a...

Supreme Court Grants Cert in Foreign Property Attachment Case
The Federal Civil Practice bulletin has recently added a post, which can be access here, regarding the Supreme Court?s granting of cert. in Ministry of Defense and Support for Armed Forces of Islamic Republic of Iran v...

Supreme Court Grants Cert. in Hulteen Retroactive PDA Case
Following the SG's recommendation, the Supreme Court this morning granted cert. in AT&T Corp. v. Hulteen, 07-543. The case concerns whether Title VII permits an employer, when setting retirement benefits, to discriminate between women who took pregnancy disability leaves before...