LII Announce

This week the Court hears 4 arguments including one regarding immigrants who were convicted of crimes prior to the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. The Supreme Court’s decision could restrict their ability to travel internationally, possibly affecting their ability to maintain family ties or fulfill religious obligations. Another case of particular interest with tax season upon us involves the possibility of imposing limitations on the time frame in which you can be audited by the IRS.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

• 10-1018 FILARSKY, STEVE A. v. DELIA, NICHOLAS B.
• 11-139 UNITED STATES v. HOME CONCRETE & SUPPLY

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

• 10-1542 HOLDER, ATT’Y GEN. v. GUTIERREZ, CARLOS M.
• 10-1543 HOLDER, ATT’Y GEN. v. SAWYERS, DAMIEN A.

SCOTUS starts the year out with arguments regarding gender discrimination in The Family Medical Leave Act, Nude Scenes and Expletives on TV, and why falling on the ice at work can hurt more than your ego.

This week the Supreme Court hears 6 cases including a couple of health care issues involving drug patents and research, healthcare costs and the generic drug manufacturing industry. Also being discussed will be DNA testing, expert witnesses and the Sixth Amendment’s Confrontation Clause.

This week the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in 6 cases. The topics range from insider trading and Securities Regulation, to the Privacy Act and whether emotional and other noneconomic damages are “actual damages,” raising broad implications for future suits under the Privacy Act.

This week the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in 6 cases. The topics range from immigration, deportation and the IRS, to the largest beef recall in U.S. history, to how citizens can protect themselves from government officials’ possible abuse of new technologies, for instance: when the FBI places GPS  devices on vehicles suspected of drug trafficking.

This week the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in 6 cases. The topics range from the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) to ineffective counsel and whether eyewitness testimony should be allowed as evidence.

It’s a short week for the Supremes this week — Monday is a legal holiday — but they’ll be hearing 5 new cases on Tuesday and Wednesday:

By the way, if you ever have questions about upcoming oral arguments, you can find a complete listing here, with links to docketing information and to the LIIBULLETIN analyses as they become available.

Today is the first day of the new Supreme Court term.  This week the Court hears cases on topics ranging from copyright to habeas corpus and the registration of sex offenders.  Here’s the calendar; as always, you can read our LII Supreme Court Bulletin case analyses by clicking on the name of the case:

Monday, October 3, 2011

• 09-958 MAXWELL-JOLLY, DAVID v. INDEP. LIVING CENTER OF S. CA
• 10-6549REYNOLDS, BILLY J. v. UNITED STATES

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

• 10-1001 MARTINEZ, LUIS M. v. RYAN, DIR., AZ DOC
• 10-63 MAPLES, CORY R. v. MAPLES, INTERIM COMM’R, AL DOC
• 10-680 HOWES, WARDEN v. FIELDS, RANDALL L.

• 10-545 GOLAN, LAWRENCE, ET AL. v. HOLDER, ATT’Y GEN., ET AL.
• 10-553 HOSANNA-TABOR CHURCH v. EEOC, ET AL.
  
  

By now, you may have noticed that the look of the LII site has changed a little bit .   And that’s not all.  Behind the scenes, we’ve made some very ambitious architectural changes, expanded some collections, and added major new things.   We’ll have more surprises over the next couple of weeks; today, we’re just putting up the new skin.

Unfortunately, not all of the surprises will be pleasant ones.  We had to wade through a lot of old stuff and make a lot of changes in very scattered places to get all of this to happen.  We know that there will be intermittent problems with random parts of the site for a while, and — while we’ve done a lot of chasing already – our four engineers will be doing their best to chase down problems as they arise.  Just let us know via our contact form.  Repairs won’t be instantaneous, but we’ll get to them as quickly as we can.  Frankly, with such a small group here, we have to rely on you guys to tell us what’s wrong; we’d have no hope of going through nearly half a million web pages to find all the bugs.

This is our first major makeover in seven years, and the biggest engineering change ever at the LII.  Dave, Wayne, Dan, Brian, and Sara have been pushing hard for more than a year, and we’re almost there.

Wish us luck on the bug hunt, and enjoy the new look.  Soon, we’ll have some things we think you’ll like even better…..

We are conducting scheduled website maintenance on Friday, August 5, 2011, around 6AM to 9AM EST.

Most of the website should be available, but you may experience problems accessing Wex, the Constitution, the Supreme Court collection, and a few other sections of the site tomorrow.

We expect things will be back to normal for most users by the afternoon that same day.

Thanks for your patience,

- The LII Team