Petitions to watch | Conference of January 22

By John Ehrett
on Jan 16, 2016 at 11:00 pm

In its Conference of January 22, 2016, the Court will consider petitions considering issues such as whether Congress has created a right to federally funded counsel in state capital post-conviction proceedings before completing federal habeas litigation, and whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act requires a plan’s definition of “normal retirement age” to be based on the typical age at which the employer expects the plan’s participants to retire from working.

This edition of “Petitions to watch” features petitions raising issues that Tom has determined to have a reasonable chance of being granted, although we post them here without consideration of whether they present appropriate vehicles in which to decide those issues.  Our policy is to include and disclose all cases in which Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys contribute to this blog in various capacities, represents either a party or an amicus in the case, with the exception of the rare cases in which Goldstein & Russell represents the respondent(s) but does not appear on the briefs in the case.

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