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Conference Call
This column seeks to identify cases on the Supreme Court's conference agenda that are leading candidates for Supreme Court review or that raise significant national issues.
Conference Call: Actors Union Asks Court to Take Race Case
Monday, May 12, 2008
An affirmative action director says she was fired after complaining about treatment of black employees.
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Conference Call: In Asylum Case, a Question of Marriage
Monday, May 5, 2008
A Chinese national wants the Supreme Court to grant him asylum, even though his 'traditional' marriage lacks a license.
Conference Call: Companies Want Apartheid Case Tossed
Monday, April 21, 2008
Solicitor General Paul Clement says that litigation involving more than 40 corporations interferes with U.S. policy goals.
Conference Call: Supreme Court Asked to Define Religion Exemption
Monday, April 14, 2008
A fired worker argues that the Jewish Community Center should not be immune from federal employment law.
Conference Call: Prosecutors Ask High Court for Immunity
Monday, April 7, 2008
In a civil rights suit, former Los Angeles prosecutors are accused of failing to keep tabs on their informants.
Conference Call: A Monumental Decision for the High Court
Monday, March 24, 2008
The Supreme Court is asked to hear free speech cases involving efforts by the Summum to erect monuments in public parks.
Conference Call: Congressional Search Case Hits High Court
Monday, March 17, 2008
Prosecutors will challenge the D.C. Circuit's ruling requiring seized 'legislative' material to be returned to Rep. William Jefferson.
Conference Call: Another Detainee Case Heads to High Court
Monday, March 10, 2008
Justices are asked to take the case of prisoners seeking evidence the government used to declare them "enemy combatants."
Conference Call summarizes the roughly 15 percent of all non-pauper petitions that are the most likely candidates for certiorari. The Supreme Court's jurisdiction is almost entirely discretionary, and justices in recent years have annually selected roughly 80 petitions from the approximately 7,500 that are filed.
Conference Call is prepared by the law firms Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Howe & Russell, which together publish the Supreme Court weblog. Tom Goldstein, who is the head of Supreme Court litigation for Akin Gump, selects the petitions from the docket of non-pauper petitions. Various attorneys for the firms then prepare summaries of the cases. If either firm is involved in a case mentioned in this column, that fact will be disclosed.
