| Name |
Counsel
of Record |
Certiorari To |
DN |
Summary of QP |
Status |
| Tilton
v. Buckley |
Noah Hill CA AG's office |
CA9 |
05-1623 |
Whether "clearly established
federal law" requires the California courts to apply state contract law
to a plea bargain claim. |
|
| Doe
v. US |
Robert Van Kirk Williams & Connolly |
CA Fed | 06-808 |
Whether the
Government can deny a person a statutory entitlement based on failure
to satisfy a regulatory requirement that the Government itself
deliberately refused to fulfill. (Also available: BIO,
Reply.
For more on this case, see www.dojclass.com.) |
|
| MHSAA v. Communities for Equity | Maureen Mahoney Latham & Watkins |
CA6 |
06-1038 |
Whether it violates Equal Protection and
Title IX to have different seasons for boys and girls high school
sports. (Also available: BIO,
Reply,
Michigan
High School Tennis Coaches Assoc., et al. amicus, Alabama,
et al. amicus, Nat'l
Federation of State High School Assocations amicus, Michigan
Assoc. of School Boards amicus,
Equity
in Athletics amicus) |
|
| Ayers v. Freitag | Vincent Scally CA AG's office |
CA9 |
06-1085 |
Whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 supports a female prison guard's action for sexual harassment against a state prison when the action is based on an allegedly hostile work environment caused by prisoners' lewd sexual misconduct. (Also available: BIO, Reply) |
|
| Boumediene v.
Bush/ Al Odah v. US |
Seth Waxman Thomas Wilner |
CADC CADC |
06-1195/ 06-1196 |
Whether the Military Commissions Act of
2006, validly stripped federal court jurisdiction over habeas corpus
petitions filed by foreign citizens imprisoned indefinitely at the
United States Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay; whether the petitioners'
habeas corpu petitions demonstrante unlawful confinement requiring the
grant of haveas relief or, at least, a hearing on the merits. The
initial top-side filings in these cases can be found here,
the government's opposition is here,
and the petitioners' replies and Senator Specter's amicus breif are here.
Note that 06-1196, Hamdan v. Gates,
may now also be considered with these (see here). |
|
| Relists |
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| Patrick v. Smith | Kristofer Jorstad Calif. AG's office |
CA9 |
06-523 |
Whether
the deferential standard for habeas corpus review under 28 U.S.C. sec.
2254(d) allows a federal court to grant relief on an
insufficient-evidence claim by accepting the expert testimony of
defense experts over the contrary opinionsof prosecution experts
believed by the jury and found sufficient by the state appellate court.
|
Relisted |