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USCA, Ninth Circuit Fields v. Twitter, Case No. 16-17165 Dec 06, 2017

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Civil Procedure: Are social media companies made immune from civil suits brought under the Anti-Terrorism Act by §230 of the Communications Decency Act? - Argued December 6, 2017

USCA, Fourth Circuit United States v. Hamidullin, Case No. 15-4788 Dec 06, 2017

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War Powers: Was a former Taliban commander required to have a military tribunal determine his prisoner of war status before he could be prosecuted in federal court for committing hostile acts against Americans in Afghanistan? - Argued December 5, 2017

USCA, Ninth Circuit United States v. Gartenlaub, Case No. 16-50339 Dec 05, 2017

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Fourth Amendment: Did the government's application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court establish probable cause to believe that appellant was an agent of a foreign power and did the government violate the Fourth Amendment by searching every file on the appellant's computers and seizing child pornography that it found in the course of the search for foreign intelligence information? - Argued December 4, 2017

U.S. Supreme Court Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver Cty. Employees, Case No. 15-1439 Dec 01, 2017

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Civil Procedure: Whether state courts lack subject matter jurisdiction over covered class actions that allege only Securities Act of 1933 claims. - Argued November 28, 2017

U.S. Supreme Court SAS Institute v. Matal, Case No. 16-969 Dec 01, 2017

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Intellectual Property: Does 35 U.S.C. § 318(a), which provides that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in an inter partes review "shall issue a final written decision with respect to the patentability of any patent claim challenged by the petitioner," require that Board to issue a final written decision as to every claim challenged by the petitioner, or does it allow that Board to issue a final written decision with respect to the patentability of only some of the patent claims challenged by the petitioner, as the Federal Circuit held? - Argued November 27, 2017

U.S. Supreme Court Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC, Case No. 16-712 Dec 01, 2017

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Separation of Powers: Whether inter partes review—an adversarial process used by the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to analyze the validity of existing patents—violates the Constitution by extinguishing private property rights through a non-Article III forum without a jury. - Argued November 27, 2017

U.S. Supreme Court Digital Realty Trust v. Somers, Case No. 16-1276 Dec 01, 2017

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Civil Procedure: Whether the anti-retaliation provision for "whistleblowers" in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 extends to individuals who have not reported alleged misconduct to the Securities and Exchange Commission and thus fall outside the Act's definition of a "whistleblower." - Argued November 28, 2017

U.S. Supreme Court Carpenter v. United States, Case No. 16-402 Dec 01, 2017

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Fourth Amendment: Whether the warrantless seizure and search of historical cell phone records revealing the location and movements of a cell phone user over the course of 127 days is permitted by the Fourth Amendment. - Argued November 29, 2017

USCA, Fourth Circuit United States v. Hamidullin, Case No. 15-4788 Nov 27, 2017

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War Powers: Was a captured Taliban commander, charged in federal court with violent crimes against U.S. personnel in Afghanistan, entitled to combatant immunity under the Geneva Conventions? - Argued December 9, 2016

U.S. Supreme Court Merit Management Group v. FTI Consulting, Case No. 16-784 Nov 12, 2017

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Bankruptcy: Whether the safe harbor of 11 U.S.C. § 546(e) prohibits avoidance of a transfer made by or to a financial institution, without regard to whether the institution has a beneficial interest in the property transferred, consistent with decisions from the Second, Third, Sixth, Eighth, and Tenth Circuits, but contrary to decisions from the Eleventh Circuit and now the Seventh Circuit? - Argued November 6, 2017

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