Amy Howe

Nov 17 2017

Justices release January calendar

Today the Supreme Court released the calendar for its January sitting, which begins on January 8. The justices will kick off the new year with not one but two interstate disputes over water: Texas v. New Mexico, involving the apportionment of the waters of the Rio Grande River, and Florida v. Georgia, involving the allocation of the waters of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin. Tuesday, January 9, the second day of the sitting, also features a common theme: the Fourth Amendment. In Byrd v. United States, the justices will consider whether a driver who is not included on a rental-car agreement has a reasonable expectation of privacy in that car, while in Collins v. Virginia they will consider whether the “automobile exception” to the Fourth Amendment allows a police officer to search a car parked on private property without a warrant. And on Wednesday, January 10, the justices will round out the first week of the sitting with Husted v. APRI, a challenge to Ohio’s efforts to keep its voter-registration lists up to date. Husted was originally scheduled for oral argument last week, but the case was rescheduled after one of the attorneys who was slated to argue the case became ill.

The justices resume oral arguments on Tuesday, January 16, after observing the Martin Luther King holiday on Monday, January 15. The four cases scheduled that week are:

Hall v. Hall (January 16): Whether the rule announced in Gelboim v. Bank of America – that a district court’s order dismissing the only claim in a case that is consolidated with other actions for pretrial proceedings in multidistrict litigation is final and appealable – applies to cases consolidated in single-district litigation.

Dalmazzi v. United States (January 16; consolidated with Cox v. United States and Ortiz v. United States): Challenges by servicemembers in the Air Force, who were charged with violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice, to the service by judges on the U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals concurrently with service on the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review.

Encino Motorcars v. Navarro (January 17): Whether service advisors at car dealerships are exempt from the overtime-pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

McCoy v. Louisiana (January 17):  Whether it is unconstitutional for defense counsel to concede an accused’s guilt over the accused’s express objection.

This post was also published on SCOTUSblog.

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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