Petitions to watch | Conference of March 25

Inits Conferenceof March 25, 2016, the Court will considerpetitions involvingissues such as whetherthe Double Jeopardy Clause permits a district court to retract its judgment of acquittal entered on remand as an interpretation of the court of appeals mandate; whether an occupational licensee who shields himself from regulatory questioning with the Fifth Amendment and suffers licensing consequences can successfully wield the Fifth Amendment as a sword in a Section 1983 action; and whether theSixth Circuit failed to apply either layer of the double deference due on federal habeas review when a state courtsStrickland v. Washingtonanalysis is reviewed through the lens of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act.

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