| Name |
Counsel
of Record |
Certiorari To |
DN |
Summary of QP |
Status |
| Dietrich
v. Belleque |
Peter Shepherd Oregon AG's office |
CA9 |
06-1060 |
Whether equitable tolling is
available to permit the filing of an otherwise untimely petition
seeking relief in federal habeas corpus or whether the provisions of 28
U.S.C. sec. 2244(d) fully define and circumscribe the circumstances in
which the AEDPA one-year statute of limitations can be tolled or
extended. |
|
| Hightower
v. Terry |
Mark Whitaker Howrey LLP |
CA11 |
06-1209 |
Whether the appeals court should
have determined whether any or all of a prosecutor's proffered reasons
for striking six black jurors were credible, rather than determining
that they were facially race-neutral. (Petition coming soon) |
|
| Iowa
Network Services v. Qwest |
James Troup Venable |
CA8 |
06-1217 |
Whether the Eighth Circuit
improperly refused to apply a federal tariff deemed lawful by Congress
and the FCC on the basis of a state agency's decision to disregard said
tariff. |
|
| Kidwell
v. City of Union |
Christopher Landau Kirkland & Ellis |
CA6 |
06-1226 |
Whether the government may spend
public funds directly to influence the outcome of an election as long
as the issue presented is directly related to the local government's
"role as governor." (Also available: BIO,
Reply) |
|
| USF-Red
Star Express v. Taylor |
Edward Mazurek Morgan, Lewis |
CA3 |
06-1284 |
Whether, in an action under the
ADA, an instruction to the jury that a "'major life activity' means an
activity that an average person can perform with little or no
difficulty" was consistent with this Court's decision in Toyota Motor Mfg., Kentucky, Inc. v.
Williams, which ruled that "major life activities" are "those
activities that are of central importance to daily life." (Petition
coming soon). |
|
| Amgen
v. Hoechst Marion Roussell |
Roy Englert Robbins, Russell |
CAFed |
06-1291 |
Whether all aspects of a
district court's claim construction are subject to de novo review, as the Federal
Circuit has held, or instead should the court have reviewed the factual
determinations underlying the district court's claim construction
deferentially. (Also available: (BIO,
Reply,
Amici: ABA,
Cross
Medical, FCBA,
SDIPLA) |