On Monday the Court granted five new cases and called for the views of the Solicitor General in one new case. Lyle reported on those orders. On Tuesday the Court issued two opinions.  Tuesday's live blog is archived here.   On Wednesday the Court issued three opinions. Wednesday's live blog is archived here.  This is the second week of the February sitting.  On Friday, the Justices will meet for their March 7 Conference. Our list of “Petitions to watch” for that Conference  is here.

• Wood v. Moss
  Secret Service agents’ plea for immunity from lawsuit for actions taken against demonstrators who were opposed to the president’s policies.
• Clark v. Rameker
  Whether an Individual Retirement Account that an individual inherited rather than created personally is exempted from a bankruptcy estate
• Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
  Constitutionality of Affordable Care Act contraception mandate
• Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius
  

• Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International
  Whether computer-implemented inventions are patent eligible
• Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
  Constitutionality of Affordable Care Act contraception mandate
• National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning
  Constitutionality of President's recess appointments to NRLB
• McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission
  Constitutionality of limits on aggregate campaign contributions
• Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action
  State constitutional amendment prohibiting affirmative action

Conference of March 7

• Mutual First Federal Credit Union v. Charvat May Congress confer standing to sue when the plaintiff suffers no concrete injury
• Long v. United States Unwritten promises to defendants in exchange for guilty pleas
• Easton Area School District v. B.H. Regulation of lewd expression in the public schools
• Catsimatidis v. Irizarry Whether an individual may be held personally liable for a corporation’s violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act merely because the individual had general control over corporate affairs, but exercised no personal responsibility over the conduct that caused the violation.

More Petitions »

• Mutual First Federal Credit Union v. Charvat
  May Congress confer standing to sue when the plaintiff suffers no concrete injury
• Drake v. Jerejian
  Second Amendment right to carry handguns outside home for self-defense
• Easton Area School District v. B.H.
  Regulation of lewd expression in the public schools
• Elane Photography, LLC v. Willock
  Applicability of public accommodations statute to wedding photographer opposed to same-sex marriage

• Rosemond v. United States Aiding and abetting liability in gun case requires foreknowledge of gun
• Lozano v. Alvarez One-year period to seek child’s return under international child custody convention not subject to equitable tolling
• Lawson v. FMR LLC Whistleblower protection in Sarbanes-Oxley Act includes employees of a public company's private contractors.
• Law v. Siegel Exempt assets not available to pay bankruptcy trustee’s attorney’s fees.

• Abortion regulation symposium
• Affirmative action symposium
• Campaign finance symposium
  
• Legislative prayer symposium