Amy Howe

Nov 4 2019

Justices release additional orders from last week’s conference

This morning the Supreme Court issued more orders from the justices’ private conference last week. As expected, the court did not add any new cases to its merits docket for this term.

The justices denied review in Time Warner Cable v. Sprint Communications, a dispute that arose when Sprint sued Time Warner for patent infringement and obtained $140 million in royalties on Time Warner’s revenues from its Voice over Internet Protocol service. Chief Justice John Roberts was recused from the case.

The justices did not act on the petition for rehearing in Gundy v. United States, last term’s case in which an eight-member court (with Justice Brett Kavanaugh not yet confirmed) declined to resurrect the “nondelegation doctrine,” which bars Congress from giving its power to legislate to another branch of government. The justices also did not act on Google v. Oracle, a dispute over the copyright status of application programming interfaces.

The justices’ next conference is scheduled for Friday, November 8.

This post is 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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