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OT2023’s last grants?

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.

At last week’s conference, the Supreme Court had 472 petitions and applications before it – including three new relists, which yielded (so far) zero grants. On Monday the court denied review in the relisted climate change case, but all of last week’s other relists are back again this week.

This week’s conference is … Read the rest

Supreme Court

Court grants review in federal employee’s filing deadlines case

The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon agreed to take up another case exploring the distinction between deadlines that are jurisdictional – so that courts cannot hear a case if they are not met – and those that are instead simply a limitations period that can be waived or extended.

The justices granted review in Harrow v. Department of Defense, the case of a federal government employee who challenged his 2013 furlough. The case was the only grant on a … Read the rest

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Court grants review in new batch of cases, including dispute on religious rights of employees

The Supreme Court will review how employers must accommodate their employees’ religious practices, how courts should decide whether threatening statements are protected by the First Amendment, and whether a local government violated the Constitution when it confiscated and sold a $ 40,000 home based on the owner’s failure to pay $ 15,000 in property taxes.

Those issues are among a slew of new disputes that the justices added to their docket on Friday afternoon in an order list from … Read the rest

Criminal Law

DOJ Commits Nearly $50M to Violence Against Women Grants For Survivors

The Department of Justice has announced a new commitment of $ 49.85 in funding for the Office on Violence Against Women for grants to provide survivors of gender-based violence with access to legal services and improve interactions with the justice system that impact victims and their families.

Over $ 35 million was awarded to 59 grantees through the Legal Assistance for Victims Program.

Earlier this month, the Office on Violence Against Women’s Justice for Families Program awarded over $ 14 … Read the rest

Criminal Law

DOJ Announces $35M in Grants to Help Sex Assault Survivors

Too many victims of sexual violence fear reporting crimes because they risk losing a job or being deported, the acting director of the federal Office on Violence against Women (OVW) says.

“Many survivors refrained from reporting assaults or entering the legal system because the intersections of sexual violence with immigration and socioeconomic status coalesced into very real fears of being deported, fired from a job, or losing their children to a broken child welfare system,” said Allison Randall in remarks … Read the rest