Monday, October 01, 2007
The New Supreme Court Season
The New Supreme Court Season...wish it was pumped as much as the new fall line up on any of the boob tube channels...or Clarence Thomas' new revisionist bio -"My Grandfather's Son http://www.calendarlive.com/books/reviews/cl-et-book1oct01,0,6421435.story?coll=cl-books-reviews.
Linda Greenhouse of the NYT calls the upcoming docket calendar: "polarizing."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/washington/01scotus.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The 19 case docket includes an appeal from an employer on a racial discrimination case which includes retaliation against the employee, a challenge to a state law requiring a photo id in order to vote, the legality of a writ of habeas corpus from a Guantanamo Bay detainee; whether lethal injections in death penalty cases are cruel and unusual, a case concerning federalism among others...
Pay attention!
Linda Greenhouse of the NYT calls the upcoming docket calendar: "polarizing."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/washington/01scotus.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The 19 case docket includes an appeal from an employer on a racial discrimination case which includes retaliation against the employee, a challenge to a state law requiring a photo id in order to vote, the legality of a writ of habeas corpus from a Guantanamo Bay detainee; whether lethal injections in death penalty cases are cruel and unusual, a case concerning federalism among others...
Pay attention!
