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Recent Decisions


January 22, 2018
         
National Assn. of Mfrs. v. Department of Defense (16-299)
Challenges to an Environmental Protection Agency regulation defining the Clean Water Act term “waters of the United States” must be filed in federal district courts.

         
Artis v. District of Columbia (16-460)
Title 28 U. S. C. §1367(d)’s instruction to “toll” a state limitations period while a supplemental state-law claim is pending in federal court means to hold it in abeyance, i.e., to stop the clock.

         
District of Columbia v. Wesby (15-1485)
D. C. police officers had probable cause to arrest partygoers for holding a raucous, late-night party in a house they did not have permission to enter; and, in any event, the officers were entitled qualified immunity.



January 08, 2018
       
Tharpe v. Sellers (17-6075) (Per Curiam)
The Eleventh Circuit erred in basing its refusal to issue a certificate of appealability in petitioner’s habeas corpus case on the ground that jurists of reason could not dispute that the District Court’s ruling on petitioner’s procedurally defaulted juror bias claim was correct.



More Opinions...

Dr. John Rock, Harper's Weekly, February 25, 1865.
Dr. John Rock, Harper’s Weekly, February 25, 1865.
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Did You Know...

First African American Admitted to the Supreme Court Bar


Dr. John Rock, a physician, was the first African American to be admitted to the Supreme Court Bar on February 1, 1865, on the motion of Senator Charles Sumner. Dr. Rock died on December 3, 1866, having never argued a case before the Court.

 

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