Monday round-up

By Amy Howe
on Nov 25, 2013 at 8:11 am

Briefly:

• At POLITICO, Josh Gerstein discusses Northover v. Archuleta, in which a clerk who worked at a grocery store on a military base in Alabama is seeking review of a lower court’s ruling that federal employees who are dismissed or demoted for security reasons can’t challenge those actions through the normal civil service channels.   
• At ImmigrationProf Blog, Nancy Morawetz discusses the policy guidance that the federal government recently issued on a provision of the Child Status Protection Act; the Court will be considering the same provision at the December 10 oral arguments in Mayorkas v. Cuellar de Osorio.  At issue in the case are the circumstances in which some non-citizens may qualify as “children” for purposes of obtaining visas or otherwise adjusting their immigration status.
• In the wake of last week’s denial of review in In re Electronic Privacy Information Center, a challenge to an order requiring Verizon to provide the National Security Agency with customer data, Michael Kirkland of UPI reports that, “though that challenge is moribund, there are more on the horizon.”
• Last week the Court named a new legal counsel, Ethan Torrey, to succeed Scott Harris, who became the new Clerk of the Court.  Tony Mauro reports for the Blog of Legal Times.