The 2010 census brought good news for Texas. In the 10 years since the last census, it had gained nearly four million residents, which translated into four more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Those changes would require the state’s Republican-controlled legislature to draw...
The petitions of the day are: Findlay v. Federal Housing Finance Agency 17-1300 Issues: (1) Whether the Seventh Amendment requires a claim under Section 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act to be tried by a jury when petitioners did not sell the relevant securities and never possessed any proceeds...
Nearly seven years ago, the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether corporations can be sued under the Alien Tort Statute, an 18th-century law that allows foreigners to bring lawsuits in U.S. courts for serious violations of international human-rights laws. The justices ultimately did not resolve...
This morning brought decisions in both of the patent cases argued in November, with the government prevailing on the constitutional question raised in Oil States Energy Services v. Greene’s Energy Group, but losing on the statutory question presented in SAS Institute v. Iancu. Both cases...
Yesterday afternoon the Supreme Court heard argument in Chavez-Meza v. United States to resolve a circuit split about whether the district court must give any explanation for its decision in a sentencing modification proceeding under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), and, if so, how full the...
Pereira v. Sessions, which was argued yesterday morning, implicates two questions, one narrow and one broad. The narrow question is a basic one of statutory interpretation. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, ten years of continuous physical presence, along with certain other factors, must be...