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The 2012 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 1, 2012, and concluded October 6, 2013. The table illustrates which opinion was filed by each justice in each case and which justices joined each opinion.
There was no dispute that Arizona's preclusion rule barring "successive petitions" was an independent and adequate state ground; federal courts would have no jurisdiction to hear the ineffective assistance claim unless the defendant showed cause for the default. [4] [5] The Arizona Supreme Court dismissed the petition. Martinez then petitioned ...
The 2012 term of the Supreme Court of the United States began October 1, 2012, and concluded October 6, 2013. This was the twenty-seventh term of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia's tenure on the Court.
Rule 8(c) requires that the defendant's answer must state any affirmative defenses. Rule 8(d) maintains that each allegation be "simple, concise, and direct" but allows "2 or more statements of a claim or defense alternatively or hypothetically." If a party makes alternative statements, the pleading is sufficient if any one of them is sufficient.
A federal appeals court blocked Nasdaq rules to increase boardroom diversity, saying that the Securities and Exchange Commission did not have the authority to approve them.. Wednesday’s ruling ...
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012), is a landmark [2] [3] [4] United States Supreme Court decision in which the Court upheld Congress's power to enact most provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly called Obamacare, [5] [6] and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA), including a requirement for most ...
California policymakers and environmentalists view recent Supreme Court actions on state vehicle emission rules as a temporary victory for clean air, but they worry about future legal challenges ...
The full set, denominated the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, then took effect on March 21, 1946. [7] Under the Sumners Courts Act, the U.S. Attorney General was given the responsibility of transmitting amendments of the rules to Congress, though this was amended in 1949 to give that duty to the Chief Justice. The turn-around period for ...