(6 summaries)
Jamie Moon
United States Supreme Court
| Title | Excerpt | Filling Date |
|---|---|---|
| Chafin v. Chafin | Constitutional Law: The return of a child to a foreign country under an International Convention return order does not render an appeal of that order moot. | (02-19-2013) |
United States Supreme Court Certiorari Granted
| Title | Excerpt | Filling Date |
|---|---|---|
| Chadbourne & Parke LLP v. Troice | Preemption: Whether the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act (SLUSA) precludes a state-law class action alleging fraud and misrepresentation in a Ponzi scheme. | (01-18-2013) |
| FTC v. Watson Pharmaceuticals | Patents: Whether reverse-payment agreements between brand-name and generic drug manufacturers are per se lawful or presumptively anticompetative and unlawful. | (12-19-2012) |
| Trevino v. Thaler | Habeas Corpus: Whether a state court procedural defect acts to bar a federal habeas court from hearing a substantial claim of ineffective assistance at trial. | (10-29-2012) |
| Chafin v. Chafin | Standing: Whether an appeal of a ruling on a petition for Return of Children under the Hague Convention becomes moot when the child at issue returns to his or her own country of habitual residence. | (08-13-2012) |
| Chaidez v. United States | Criminal Procedure: Whether the rule announced in [italics]Padilla v. Kentucky[/italics]—that an attorney provides ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment by failing to inform a criminal defendant that a guilty plea carries a risk of deportation—applies retroactively to persons whose convictions were already final. | (04-30-2012) |