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Oral Arguments

Week of Monday, March 1


Monday, March 1
       
United States v. Arthrex, Inc. (19-1434)
       
Smith & Nephew, Inc. v. Arthrex, Inc. (19-1452)
       
Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc. (19-1458)
Consolidated


Tuesday, March 2
       
Brnovich v. DNC (19-1257)
       
Arizona Republican Party v. DNC (19-1258)
Consolidated


Wednesday, March 3
       
Carr v. Saul (19-1442)
       
Davis v. Saul (20-105)
Consolidated


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March 04, 2021
         
United States Fish and Wildlife Serv. v. Sierra Club, Inc. (19-547)
The deliberative process privilege protects from disclosure under FOIA in-house draft biological opinions that are both predecisional and deliberative, even if the drafts reflect the agencies’ last views about a proposal.

         
Pereida v. Wilkinson (19-438)
A nonpermanent resident seeking to cancel a lawful removal order fails to carry his burden of showing that he has not been convicted of a disqualifying offense when the statutory conviction on his record is ambiguous regarding whether a disqualifying offense formed the basis of his conviction.



February 25, 2021
         
Brownback v. King (19-546)
The District Court’s order dismissing King’s Federal Tort Claims Act claims was a judgment on the merits that can trigger the Act’s judgment bar to block his Bivens claims. See 28 U. S. C. §2676; Bivens v. Six Unknown Fed. Narcotics Agents, 403 U. S. 388.



February 03, 2021
         
Republic of Hungary v. Simon (18-1447) (Per Curiam)
Judgment vacated and case remanded to the District of Columbia Circuit for further proceedings consistent with Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp, 592 U. S. ___ (2021).

         
Salinas v. Railroad Retirement Bd. (19-199)
The U. S. Railroad Retirement Board’s denial of a request to reopen a prior benefits determination under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974 and the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act is subject to judicial review.

         
Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp (19-351)
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act’s expropriation exception, 28 U. S. C. §1605(a)(3), incorporates the domestic takings rule, which recognizes that a foreign sovereign’s taking of its own nationals’ property is not a violation of international law.



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Shouting Fire in a Theater


The 1919 case Schenck  v. United States  concerned the enforcement of the Espionage Act of 1917, which prohibited interference with military operations or recruitment. After Charles Schenck and Elizabeth Baer were convicted for distributing leaflets urging opposition to the wartime draft, they argued that the Act unconstitutionally violated their First Amendment rights. Famously noting that freedom of speech did not “protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre,” the Court upheld their convictions and the constitutionality of the Act as an appropriate exercise of Congress’ wartime authority.

 

The White Court, as it was comprised from October 9, 1916 until May 19, 1921. Seated from left are Justices William R. Day and Joseph McKenna, Chief Justice Edward Douglas White, and Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Willis Van Devanter. Standing from left are Justices Louis D. Brandeis, Mahlon Pitney, James C. McReynolds and John H. Clarke.
The White Court, as it was comprised from October 9, 1916 until May 19, 1921.
Seated from left are Justices William R. Day and Joseph McKenna, Chief Justice Edward Douglas White, and Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Willis Van Devanter. Standing from left are Justices Louis D. Brandeis, Mahlon Pitney, James C. McReynolds and John H. Clarke.
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