Petitions to watch | Conference of April 22

Inits Conferenceof April 22, 2016, the Court will considerpetitions involvingissues such as whether a change in state law reducing a prisoners ability to earn future good-time credits based on new or continuing prison misconduct violates the Ex Post Facto Clause as applied to a prisoner who committed his underlying crime before the change in law; the appropriate test to determine when a feature of a useful article is protectable under Section 101 of the Copyright Act; and whether the Court should reconsider, and then overrule or modify, the portion ofWilliamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson Citybarring property owners from filing a federal takings claim in federal court until they exhaust state court remedies.

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