Programming note: This blog will next be updated on Monday night.
Although tomorrow is the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court of the United States will not begin its new Term by hearing oral arguments tomorrow in observance of the Yom Kippur holiday. Rather, the Term’s first oral arguments will occur on Tuesday. My law.com essay previewing this week’s and next week’s Supreme Court oral arguments can be accessed here.
The Supreme Court tomorrow is expected to issue its first Order List of the Term, containing a very large number of certiorari denieds. You can access the Order List, once the Court posts it online at its web site sometime after 10 a.m. eastern time Monday, via this link (or, perhaps, directly by clicking here). Additional coverage may appear tomorrow at “SCOTUSblog.”
The blog “Patent Baristas” is slated to host “Blawg Review #77,” scheduled to appear early tomorrow.
And the brand new installment of my “On Appeal” column for law.com is headlined “How Many Issues Should You Raise on Appeal? Beware the trap of raising too many issues.”
“Business Sector Looks to Court for Help”: The Associated Press provides a report that begins, “The Supreme Court is about to plunge into an agenda laden with issues affecting the business sector. Tobacco companies, the biotech industry and operators of coal-fired power plants have a stake in cases the court will hear in the next month.”
“Group verdict: Judges’ raises are fair; The controversy, subject of a court ruling, is a hot topic at a Phila. Bar Association conference.” This article appears today in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“Filth or Free Speech? Feces porn brings the feds to Orlando — welcome to Bush’s war on obscenity.” The current issue of Orlando Weekly contains this article.
“Profiles in Cowardice: On prisoner abuse and detention, President Bush finds enablers in both parties.” This editorial appears today in The Washington Post.
And today in The Los Angeles Times, Moazzam Begg has an op-ed entitled “No ‘Holiday’ in Guantamo: I never saw Rumsfeld’s volleyball courts during my two years in America’s gulag,” while U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT) has an op-ed entitled “What My Father Saw at Nuremberg: Sixty years ago today, my father watched the U.S. win the battle of ideas; Have we lost our way?”
“Profile in courage: Earl Warren was a staunch Republican who nonetheless forged a progressive social vision as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; How did this happen?” Today in the Sunday Book Review section of The Los Angeles Times, Karl Fleming has this review of Jim Newton’s forthcoming book, “Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made.”
“Where the Rubber Meets Roe: The pro-life case for contraception.” William Saletan has this essay online at Slate.
“High Court Justices Attend Pre-Term Mass”: The AP provides this updated report.
“Retrial of truck driver in deadly smuggling case to begin”: The Associated Press provides a report that begins, “An invalid verdict has given federal prosecutors a second chance to try a truck driver on all the charges he faced for his role in the nation’s deadliest human smuggling attempt, including those that carry the death penalty.”
“Supreme Court Revisits Race, Abortion this Session”: This audio segment (RealPlayer required) appeared on today’s broadcast of NPR‘s “Weekend Edition Sunday.”
“Why Torture Is Still An Option: The compromise terrorism detainee bill limits interrogation abuses-and lets Bush set the limits.” This article will appear in the October 9, 2006 issue of Time magazine.
“Red Mass Offers Guidance for Justice”: The Associated Press provides a report that begins, “With the nation’s highest court set to open a new session, members of Washington’s legal community gather Sunday to seek spiritual guidance for justice in the annual celebration of the Catholic Church’s Red Mass.”
