{"id":150,"date":"2010-10-04T13:23:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T18:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/10\/04\/new-scotus-term-opens-today\/"},"modified":"2010-10-04T14:46:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T19:46:28","slug":"new-scotus-term-opens-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/10\/04\/new-scotus-term-opens-today\/","title":{"rendered":"New SCOTUS term opens today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first Monday in October is the official start of the U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/\" title=\"supremecourt.gov\">Supreme Court<\/a>\u2019s new term.\u00a0 The nine justices, for the first time including three women, start right in on October 4 with oral arguments: 2 on Monday, 3 on Tuesday, and 2 on Wednesday.\u00a0 The cases on Wednesday focus on very personal stories.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/cert\/09-751\" title=\"LII Supreme Court bulletin\">Snyder v. Phelps<\/a> pits the grieving father of a marine killed in Iraq against infamous Rev. Fred Phelps, whose group displayed hateful signs such as \u201cThank God for Dead Soldiers\u201d near the funeral.\u00a0 In <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/cert\/09-152\" title=\"LII Supreme Court bulletin\">Bruesewitz v. Wyeth<\/a>, the Court will rule on the legal right of parents to sue when their children have been injured by vaccines, such as Hannah Bruesewitz who developed a seizure disorder after getting a vaccine when she was six months old.<\/p>\n<p>A great web site to find all the briefs on the merits and the amicus briefs is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/\" title=\"ABA\">ABA<\/a>\u2019s site for \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/publiced\/preview\/home.html\" title=\"ABA SCOTUS PREVIEW\">PREVIEW<\/a> of United States Supreme Court Cases,\u201d which provides \u201cexpert analysis of the issues, arguments, background, and significance of every case slated for argument.\u201d\u00a0 Another great resource for case previews is the Cornell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/\">Legal Information Institute<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/cert\" title=\"LII Supreme Court bulletin\">Supreme Court Bulletin<\/a>, which provides case summaries and analysis written by Cornell Law students.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t be in Washington this week, you can still find the transcripts and audio of the oral arguments.\u00a0 Check out \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/library.lawschool.cornell.edu\/WhatWeDo\/ResearchGuides\/Supreme-Court-Oral.cfm\" title=\"U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments guide from Cornell Law Library\">U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments: A Research Guide<\/a>\u201d by Cornell Research Attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lawschool.cornell.edu\/WhatWeDo\/Teach\/Matt-Morrison.cfm\" title=\"Matt Morrison bio\">Matt Morrison<\/a> for guidance.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Monday in October is the official start of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s new term.\u00a0 The nine justices, for the first time including three women, start right in on October 4 with oral arguments: 2 on Monday, 3 on Tuesday, and 2 on Wednesday.\u00a0 The cases on Wednesday focus on very personal stories.\u00a0 Snyder <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/10\/04\/new-scotus-term-opens-today\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[306],"tags":[191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}