U.S. Supreme Court
Oct. 1, 2008
An Important Term to Come
Guns and Guantanamo are so last term. Here's what's on the horizon for the U.S. Supreme Court's October 2008 term.
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
On Monday, October 6, the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will return from summer recess to face a docket filled with cases directly affecting what lawyers and judges do on a daily basis. About half the new term's docket was set before the justices adjourned for the summer, and at this point it does not appear to include blockbuster cases of last term's magnitude: no cases inva...
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