Tony Mauro of Legal Times has a good preview of the coming term here. The headline is "Sentencing Tops High Court's New Term: Justices also to tackle disputes over beef ads, wine, marijuana." Some quotes:
The Supreme Court returns to the bench on Oct. 4 [the first Monday in October] and almost immediately will set about cleaning up the chaos it created in the federal sentencing system in June before it left for its summer recess.Professor Douglas Berman, prolific author of the essential blog, Sentencing Law & Policy, has produced a very useful page titled "Resources on Blakely v. Washington."In a rare two-hour afternoon session on Monday, the Court will hear arguments in United States v. Booker and United States v. Fanfan, hastily added to its docket in the aftermath of its June 24 decision in Blakely v. Washington, which struck down a sentencing system similar to the federal one.
Particularly valuable while the Court is in session is Goldstein & Howe's SCOTUSblog. Earlier this year Lyle Denniston, an long-time Supreme Court journalist, began writing for them - his pieces often give a different slant to what is happening.
Two sites I access often are Findlaw's Supreme Court Center and On the Docket, a site for journalists produced by Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.
Posted by Marcia Oddi at September 29, 2004 04:58 PM