As Lyle Denniston reported yesterday for this blog, “the Obama administration urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday not to allow two states to sue Colorado directly in the Supreme Court over their claim of cross-border crime traced to their neighbor’s regime of legal sales of marijuana.” Tony Mauro covers the government’s filing for The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required).
Writing for The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required), Tony Mauro reports that a “rare alliance between both houses of Congress and the Obama administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to clear the path for American victims of Iranian-backed terrorism to recover damages from Iran’s central bank” in Bank Markazi v. Peterson, scheduled for oral argument in mid-January. The Citizen’s Guide to the Supreme Court has a podcast on the case and the issues related to it, “including why judgments are the most important part of every civil case, the Court’s view on Separation of Powers issues, whether this is a Bill of Attainder and what is a Bill of Attainder.”
Briefly:
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