Sentences with phrase «granted cert»

In January 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court granted cert (meaning that enough of the justices believe the case warrants review) to South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., a case challenging a South Dakota law allowing the state to require that online sellers collect and remit sales tax to the state.

U. S. Supreme Court granted cert on 2/22/05.

Two weeks ago, the Court granted cert in US v. Castleman, which concerns whether a «Tennessee conviction for misdemeanor domestic assault by intentionally or knowingly causing bodily injury to the mother of his child qualifies as a conviction for a «misdemeanor crime of domestic violence» under 18 U.S.C. § 922 (g)(9).»

And though the Justices ended up DIGing Joe Sullivan's case, the majority opinion in Graham used the facts of Joe Sullivan's case to justify its holding; I feel confident that SCOTUS granted cert on this issue in the first instance in large part because of the extraordinary advocacy efforts of EJI and Bryan Stevenson.

This post at SCOTUSblog notes that the Supreme Court has granted cert in relatively few cases for its next Term.

The Supreme Court granted cert in the case in 2011, and heard a first round of arguments in February 2012.

When the Supreme Court granted cert, Lee Nation, then a Kansas City, Mo., public defender, selected Ginsburg as his co-counsel.

Though I won't credit all my whining about the need for the Supreme Court to start addressing all the important issues left unresolved by Blakely and Booker (see, e.g., here and here), I will celebrate the big news coming from Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog that the Court today granted cert in «a significant sequel to its series of rulings on the roles of judges and juries in criminal sentencing» by accepting for review «the issue of whether a violation of the jury's role in sentencing can ever be excused as «harmless error.»»

In addition to the big news that the Supreme Court has granted cert.

The court granted cert in the case of Russell Bucklew, who has a disease called cavernous hemangioma that causes blood - filled tumors around his head, neck and throat.

On the heels of its decision yesterday in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer, the Supreme Court today granted cert to and vacated state supreme court decisions out of Colorado and New Mexico that used Blaine Amendments to exclude religious schools from government aid programs.

When this happens, the lower court decision is upheld but it has no precedential value, almost as if the court had never granted cert or heard the case.

And the Supreme Court granted cert.

Supreme Court grants cert.

The most common basis for granting cert is a «circuit split.»

She even suggests that advocates may go so far as to «game» a case, by writing publicly about it in a blog to spur the Court to grant cert or rule a particular way.

Shedding Some Light: SCOTUS Grants Cert.

«Supreme Court grants cert on applicability of Booker in sentencing modifications!

Blank: By granting cert on two fee shifting cases in one term, the Supreme Court seems eager to tackle the fee - shifting issue.

Granting cert is one thing, but having his mind made up before listening to arguments is completely unacceptable - and even if he has his mind made up, he shouldn't announce it to the world.

(U.S., filed April 23, 2018): Arguing that the Court should grant cert to clarify a clear circuit split.

Now here's something you don't see every day: A criminal challenging an unfavorable decision of the 9th Circuit and the Supreme Court granting cert.

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Or they might grant cert (as ohwilleke points out, it goes to Justice Kennedy and I agree with their bet that he would have granted cert.

««Ohio inmate to get 1 - drug, slower, execution» Main Supreme Court grants cert on applicability of Booker in sentencing modifications!»

Sentencing fans have their SCOTUS cups running over this morning: in addition to the cert grants on a pair of cases dealing with the application of the statutory crack sentences in Dorsey and Hill (basics here), the Supreme Court also grant cert on a long - simmering Apprendi issue: namely whether standard of proof jury trial rights set forth in Apprendi and its progeny apply to the imposition of criminal fines.

NAR, along with other real estate organizations, sent an amicus brief in support of the Court granting cert on the case in 2017.

Not exact matches

I know most bloggers today are consumed with the June avalanche of Supreme Court opinions and cert grants, but something interesting is afoot in the corporate law world (and more importantly the actual world).

The current nominee, for example, might recuse from many cases where cert is granted from the 10th Circuit for a year or two.

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But, as noted by SL&P when cert was granted, this defendant has as good a set of facts as a defendant could hope for, and after being presented with countless similar cases, the Court agreed to take this one.

In other words, if your cert petition isn't cert - worthy, your chances of getting it granted really are less than one percent.

And it's a lot cheaper to figure out up front whether you've got a cert - worthy case, than to simply press forward with drafting and filing a cert petition that has no chance at being granted.

The Supreme Court receives about 10,000 cert petitions each year, and grants only about 75 - 80 of them — which translates to a success rate of less than one percent.

The fact is, they didn't grant Claiborne's cert.

Reuters, the New York Times, Courthouse News Service and Bloomberg News covered the cert grant.

He mentions that unlike most of the Supreme Court justices, he does not participate in the cert pool, where clerks review petitions and recommend to the court whether they should be granted.

(The Am Law Litigation Daily, Class Cert Granted in 23 Cent -LRB-!)

Such a case would permit one to determine whether the view Grant advocated in her cert petition tracks her own view, but the issue does not appear to have come before the court again since that time — at least not in a form that has resulted in a written opinion.

The Supreme Court's decision to grant certiorari is surprising because it previously denied cert in three other cases challenging the constitutionality of AIA trials.

UPDATE: In response to my inquiry, Lyle Denniston has confirmed for me that most of the cert grants so far involve criminal cases.

Denniston writes that a grant of cert is «quite likely» because of conflict between the circuit courts on the meaning of the Second Amendment.

But, while making a cert grant more likely, it is hard to ever assert that a cert grant in a federal criminal case is «probable.»

If you've ever wondered what the court was thinking when denying (or granting) cert in a case you teach, now you can find out.

(U.S. to be filed December 22, 2017): Urging the Court to grant the petition for cert and address whether, at the pleading stage, a compromise of a damages claim can be transformed into a «reverse payment» by focusing solely on the value transferred by the manufacturer to the patent challenger, without considering the value such a compromise provides to the manufacturer.

The order list with the cert grant is here, the Encino Motorcars case page on the Supreme Court website is here, Scotusblog's case page is here with the BIO here.

Cert Search — Search the TBA's database of Discretionary Appeals that have been granted or denied by the Tennessee Supreme Court

UPDATE: Howard Bashman has a nice round - up here of media coverage of the Baze cert grant, including links to a number of local articles examining the possible local impact of the case.