| Name |
Counsel
of Record |
Certiorari To |
DN |
Summary of QP |
Status |
| Ayers
v. Daniels |
Steve Oetting Calif. AG's office |
CA9 |
06-1142 |
Whether, when a criminal
defendant refuses to cooperate with his counsel due to his subjective
mistrust of them, (a) he is constructively denied his right to counsel
or (b) his counsel is ineffective within the meaning of Strickland v. Washington. |
|
| G.E.
v. Commissioner, NH Dept. of Rev. Admin. |
Walter Hellerstein Sutherland Asbill & Brennan |
S. Ct. of NH |
06-1210 |
Whether the New Hampshire
business profits tax regime facially discriminates against foreign
commerce by providing a tax deduction for dividends received from
foreign subsidiaries only to the extent that the foreign subsidiary
conducts income-generating business in the State. (Petition coming soon) |
|
| Wyeth
v. Levine |
Bert Rein Wiley Rein |
S. Ct. of
Verm. |
06-1249 |
Whether the prescription drug
labeling judgments imposed on manufacturers by the FDA preempt
state law product liability claims premised on the theory that
different labeling judgments were necessary to make drugs reasonably
safe for use. (Also available: BIO,
Reply,
Amici: PHRMA,
PLAC)
|
|
| US
ex rel. Bly-Magee v. Premo |
David Frederick KHHTEF |
CA9 |
06-1269 |
Whether the bar on hearing a qui tam action based on "the public
disclosure of allegations or transactions...in a congressional,
administrative, or [GAO] report, hearing, audit, or investigation"
encompasses disclosures by state and local governments or refers to
disclosures only by the federal government. (Also available: BIO,
Reply) |