| Name |
Counsel
of Record |
Certiorari To |
DN |
Summary |
Status |
| Winkelman v. Parma City School District | Jean-Claude Andre Ivey, Smith, & Ramirez |
CA6 |
05-983 |
Whether a non-lawyer parent of a
disabled child may
file a lawsuit, without a lawyer, to enforce the child's rights under
the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). (Note: case was CVSG'd; see post here) |
Granted,
10/27 |
| Microsoft v. AT&T | Theodore Olson Gibson Dunn |
CAFC |
05-1056 |
Whether software object code can be a
component of a
patented invention and whether foreign-made copies of such a component
are to
be considered "supplied" from the |
Granted,
10/27 |
| Schmidt v. Van Patten | Christopher Wren Wisc. AG's office |
CA7 |
05-1527 |
Whether a defendant's Sixth Amendment
right to
effective counsel was violated because his counsel participated in a
no-contest
plea hearing by speakerphone. |
GVR |
| Scott v. Harris | Philip Savrin Freeman, Mathis, & Gary |
CA11 |
05-1631 |
Whether a law
enforcement officer violates a fleeing suspect's Fourth Amendment
rights by
using deadly force to terminate a dangerous high-speed pursuit. |
Granted,
10/27 |
| Omar v. Babock | Roy Wason Wason & Assoc. |
CA11 |
06-78 |
Whether the standard for imposing
liability under
section 1983 in child abuse should be the "professional judgment"
standard or
the "deliberate indifference" standard. |
Denied |
| Stolt-Nielsen v. US | Chris Curran White & Case |
CA3 |
06-97 |
Whether federal
courts have authority to enjoin federal prosecutors from breaching a
promise "not to bring any criminal prosecution" against a company and
its executives. (Note: Lyle has
written extensively on previous developments in this case.
Search SCOTUSblog for "Stolt") |
Denied |
| Cox v. DaimlerChrysler | Tom Casey SG of Mich. |
CA6. |
06-273 |
Whether Michigan laws that restrict
inmates to only a
prison bank account impose a burden on a private pension plan when the
plan is
required to send an inmate-pensioner's payments to the prison for
deposit into
the inmate's account. |
CVSG |
| Morse and Juneau School District v. Frederick | Kenneth Starr Kirkland & Ellis |
CA9 |
06-278 |
Whether the First Amendment
allows public schools to prohibit students from displaying messages
promoting the use of illegal substances at school-sponsored,
faculty-supervised events. (Note:
This case will be the lead in the edition of "Conference Call" running
in Legal Times on Monday, 10/23) |
Granted |