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Monday, March 08, 2010

Courts - Attorneys who provide bankruptcy assistance are debt-relief agencies; Action on petitions [Updated]

So ruled the SCOTUS today in Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz, P.A. v. United States. See details here via SCOTUSblog. See Oct. 9, 2009 ILB entry here.

[More] Among the grants today were none of the "of interest to Indiana" cases described here by the ILB on March 4th, but Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog reports on "Court to rule on funeral pickets."

[Updated at 12:19 PM] CBS News has posted a good rundown of the grants today, headed "High Court to Hear Protest, Vaccine Cases: Anti-Gay Westboro Baptist Church Subject of Free Speech Case to Be Heard in Fall; Can Parents Sue Vaccine Makers?" The story concludes:

The justices on Monday turned down an appeal from David Paul Hammer, an inmate on the federal government's death row in Terre Haute, Indiana. Hammer argued that the policy adopted after Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh appeared on a television program in March 2000 is an unconstitutional violation of his free speech rights.

Twenty-three news media organizations also urged the court to hear the case.

Hammer's sentence has been thrown out, but he remains housed with other death-row prisoners while the government decides whether to seek to have him re-sentenced to death.

No mention of the Kentucky sex offender appeal.

[Updated at 7:46 PM] The WSJ Law Blog has posted this entry, headed "Silenced! High Court Upholds Ban on Type of Legal Advice."

Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 8, 2010 10:54 AM
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