Summary: This week the court issued three opinions, heard five cases in oral arguments (two of which were consolidated for review) and granted certiorari to three cases. We begin with a review of the Court’s opinion in Perry v. Perez, the Texas Redistricting cases. We next review an order released simultaneously with the Texas redistricting opinion staying an order of a federal court in West Virginia challenging redistricting plans in that state. We then review the court's opinion this week in Maples v. Thomas, concerning an Alabama state prisoner represented pro bono by two attorneys of the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell who subsequently left the firm but had not ensured that other attorneys at the firm would take over the case, causing the Alabama state prisoner to miss his appellate filing deadline. Next, we review the Court's opinion in Golan v. Holder, which resolves the question of whether Congress may restore copyright to millions of potential works that had fallen into the public domain between 1923-1989. We end this week with a report on the grant of certiorari in Cavazos v. Williams, which concerns whether a state court judge violated a defendant's right to trial by jury when he dismissed a hold-out juror in a deadlocked jury based in part on the juror's view of the verdict. OPINIONS (click to download) Perry v. Perez (Texas Redistricting Cases) (11-713) Mims v. Arrow Financial Services, LLC (10-1195) Golan v. Holder (10-545) Maples v. Thomas (10-63) GRANTS OF CERTIORARI (click on case name to download lower court decision) Cavazos v. Williams (Ninth Circuit) United States v. Bormes (Federal Circuit) Kloeckner v. Solis (8th Circuit) ORAL ARGUMENT TRANSCRIPTS AND AUDIO (click to download) United States v. Home Concrete & Supply, LLC (11-139) Audio Transcript Filarsky v. Delia (10-1018) Audio Transcript Holder v. Martinez Gutierrez (10-1542) Audio Transcript Vartelas v. Holder (10-1211) Audio Transcript
