Supreme Court Starts New Term Today
Monday, October 3, 2011 at 9:11AM* Shift in focus from corporate law to criminal justice and First Amendment cases - and challenge to 2010 health care law, if they decide to hear it (likely) - will be huge, and could decide Obama’s re-election
* Fun stuff to be decided:
* Whether police need a warrant to put a GPS on a car and monitor movements over several weeks?
* Does the First Amendment allow the govt to regulate cursing and nudity on broadcast TV (ie celebs on award shows and yes - all the way back to female buttocks on NYPD Blue)
* Whether a ministerial exception bans suits between religious groups and employees whose work includes religious duties - can you be fired by a church
* Does the Fourth Amendment allow jails to conduct strip searches of all people detained for minor offenses without individualized suspicion?
* Can the missed deadline, the result of a mix up in a law firm’s mailroom, be suspended when the inmate was blameless and a court clerk who received a court order marked “return to sender” did nothing to set things right? Upshot - death row inmate lost chance to appeal decision against him because lawyers missed a filing deadline
* Do eyewitness ids made in suggestive settings require judicial scrutiny when the police were not responsible for the suggestiveness?
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