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Summary of Court Actions This Week

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 4, 2014
News Type: U.S. Supreme Court

During the first week of the U.S. Supreme Court’s November sitting, justices granted one new case dealing with water rights between Florida and Georgia and heard arguments in four. Yesterday, the court waded into the international dispute of whether a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem can list “Israel” as his place of birth on a passport and heard arguments in a securities law case. Today, the court heard arguments in a case testing whether whistleblowers are barred from making disclosures when prohibited by agency regulation, and a case questioning the timing of suits under the Truth in Lending Act. The court will hear two cases tomorrow – one testing the sweep of a law that seeks to protect criminal evidence from being destroyed and another looking at whether possession of a short-barreled shotgun should be treated as a violent felony. On Friday, the justices will consider additional petitions. SCOTUSblog has the ones to watch.

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