Amy Howe

Oct 14 2016

Court issues revised argument calendar

Today the Supreme Court issued a revised argument calendar for its November session, which begins on October 31. Ivy v. Morath, which had originally been scheduled as the second case on Monday, November 7, was removed from the calendar, leaving only one case – National Labor Relations Board v. SW General – on that day.

Ivy was brought by five Texas residents with hearing disabilities, who contended that they could not find driver’s education classes that would provide sign language interpreters for them. The question before the court was whether the individuals could sue a state agency for violations of federal anti-discrimination laws when the driver’s education classes are privately run but licensed by the state. The federal government had advised the justices to stay out of the dispute, but the court nonetheless granted review on June 28.

The court did not give any reason for taking the case off the calendar. However, in a brief filed with the court late last month, the state had urged the justices to dismiss the case as moot, explaining that the five plaintiffs in the case had either taken a driver’s education class or moved out of state.

Amy L Howe
Until September 2016, Amy served as the editor and reporter for SCOTUSblog, a blog devoted to coverage of the Supreme Court of the United States; she continues to serve as an independent contractor and reporter for SCOTUSblog. Before turning to full-time blogging, she served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there. From 2004 until 2011, she co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School; from 2005 until 2013, she co-taught a similar class at Harvard Law School. She has also served as an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law and Vanderbilt Law School. Amy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a master’s degree in Arab Studies and a law degree from Georgetown University.
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