Amy Howe

Oct 9 2018

Court releases December calendar

Today the Supreme Court released the oral argument calendar for its December sitting, which begins on Monday, November 26. The December sitting contains some of the highest-profile cases granted (at least so far) for this term, including Apple v. Pepper, in which the justices will consider whether customers who purchased iPhone apps from Apple’s App Store can bring an antitrust case against Apple; Timbs v. Indiana, in which the justices will determine whether the Constitution’s ban on excessive fines applies to the states; and Gamble v. United States, in which the court has been asked to overrule the “separate sovereign” exception to the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause, which allows two “separate sovereigns” – for example, the federal government and a state – to prosecute a defendant for the same conduct.

The full schedule for cases to be argued in the December sitting, along with a brief summary of the issues presented in the cases not described above, follows.

Apple v. Pepper (Monday, Nov. 26)

Nieves v. Bartlett (Monday, Nov. 26): Whether probable cause defeats a First Amendment retaliatory-arrest claim under federal civil rights laws

Nutraceutical Corp. v. Lambert (Tuesday, Nov. 27): Whether equitable exceptions apply to mandatory claim-processing rules and therefore excuse a failure to timely file within the deadline set by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f)

Carpenter v. Murphy (Tuesday, Nov. 27): Whether the 1866 territorial boundaries of the Creek Nation within the former Indian territory of eastern Oklahoma constitute an “Indian reservation” today

Timbs v. Indiana (Wednesday, Nov. 28)

Dawson v. Steager (Monday, Dec. 3): Whether the doctrine of intergovernmental tax immunity bars West Virginia from exempting the retirement benefits for some of its own law-enforcement officials from state taxes without providing the same exemption for the retirement benefits of former employees of the U.S. Marshals Service

Lorenzo v. SEC (Monday, Dec. 3): Whether a misstatement claim that does not meet the requirements outlined in the Supreme Court’s cases can instead be pursued as a fraudulent-scheme claim

Biestek v. Berryhill (Tuesday, Dec. 4): Whether a vocational expert’s testimony can constitute substantial evidence of “other work” available to an applicant for social security benefits on the basis of a disability, when the expert does not provide the applicant with the underlying data on which that testimony is premised

Helsinn Healthcare v. Teva Pharmaceuticals (Tuesday, Dec. 4): Whether, under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party that is obligated to keep the invention confidential qualifies as prior art for purposes of determining the patentability of the invention

Gamble v. United States (Wednesday, Dec. 5)

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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