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Monday, June 15, 2015

“Justices’ Words Are Combed for Clues as Major Decisions Loom at Court”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Posted at 10:44 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justices Uphold Denial of Visa to Afghan Husband of American Woman”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “Justices say it’s enough to cite terrorism in declining visa applicant.”

David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “Fremont woman loses Supreme Court appeal to get visa for Afghan husband.”

Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that “Justices say U.S. citizen cannot appeal Afghan husband’s visa denial.”

Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle reports that “Fremont woman loses bid to learn why husband denied a visa.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Challenges to Spouse’s Visa Denial Curbed by U.S. High Court.”

Lawrence Hurley of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court rejects wife’s challenge to Afghan husband’s visa denial.”

Sam Hananel of The Associated Press has a report headlined “Court: Spouse can’t protest husband’s visa denial.”

And on this evening’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Nina Totenberg had a report titled “High Court Sides With Government On Spousal Visa Denial.”

In commentary, online at Bloomberg View, law professor Noah Feldman has an essay titled “For Now, There’s No Constitutional Right to Marriage.”

Online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick has an essay titled “Supreme Court: American Woman Had No Right to Know Why Her Husband Was Denied a U.S. Visa.” And Mark Joseph Stern has an essay titled “Did Scalia and Roberts Just Reveal How They’ll Vote on Marriage Equality?

And at ThinkProgress, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “Justice Scalia Turns Obscure Immigration Case Into A Proxy War Over Marriage Equality.”

You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Kerry v. Din, No. 13-1402, at this link.

Posted at 10:16 PM by Howard Bashman



In news coverage of today’s U.S. Supreme Court Order List: The Associated Press reports that “Court to rule on tribal courts’ powers over non-Indians” and “Supreme Court won’t revive North Carolina abortion law.”

Lawrence Hurley and Letitia Stein of Reuters report that “U.S. justices refuse to restore North Carolina abortion ultrasound law.” Hurley also has reports headlined “U.S. top court rejects AU Optronics over $500 million price-fixing fine” and “U.S. top court rejects Iraq bid to revive ‘oil-for-food’ lawsuit.”

Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Abortion Curbs Voided as U.S. Supreme Court Rejects North Carolina; Rejecting the state’s appeal, the justices left intact a federal appeals court ruling that said the measure violated doctors’ speech rights.”

And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “A gesture in favor of a woman’s abortion choice.”

Lastly, in Hittson v. Chatman, No. 14-8589, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a concurrence, in which Justice Elena Kagan joined, in the denial of certiorari. Justice Ginsburg’s concurrence suggests that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit may wish to grant rehearing en banc in Wilson v. Warden, No. 14-10681. You can access the pending rehearing petition at this link. The Eleventh Circuit has already issued this order directing a response to the rehearing petition and allowing a reply to the response. Both the response and a reply have since been filed.

Posted at 9:00 PM by Howard Bashman



“Justice Scalia finds out that if you live by the sword, you die by the sword”: Senior U.S. District Judge Richard G. Kopf had this post yesterday at his “Hercules and the umpire” blog.

Posted at 8:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“SCOTUS foreign antitrust cert denials show different tests for civil, criminal cases”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this report today.

Posted at 8:04 PM by Howard Bashman