Supreme Court declines to hear immigration and Redskins cases
Source: Washington Post
Supreme Court declines to hear immigration and Redskins cases
By Robert Barnes
https://twitter.com/scotusreporter
October 3 at 10:54 AM
The Supreme Court will not reconsider President Obama’s plan to shield undocumented immigrants from deportation and denied the Washington Redskins’ bid to get its trademark case on this term’s docket.
With oral arguments postponed for a day because of the Rosh Hashana Jewish holiday, the first Monday in October that marks the beginning of the new Supreme Court term became a day of rejection. The court issued a thick stack of cases that had accumulated over the summer that the justices decided not to hear.
Among the other losers: the NCAA, which had asked the court to review an appeals court ruling about its policies involving the amateur status of college football and basketball players. The issue remains alive in other court proceedings.
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The Washington football team’s request was something of a Hail Mary pass, as well. The club’s decades-old registration of its iconic nickname was canceled by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office, which said it violated the ban on disparaging trademarks. ... But the team has appealed that and a lower court’s agreement to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. The Supreme Court does not usually grant cases before proceedings in the lower court are completed. ... The issue, though, will be covered in the court’s current term. The justices last week said it would consider the similar case of an Asian American rock band called The Slants who were denied trademark registration.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-immigration-and-redskins-cases/2016/10/03/142eeb60-8973-11e6-b24f-a7f89eb68887_story.html
It's the first Monday in October, and a new session begins. I don't think it's because of anything here:
Article Three, U.S. Constitution
(And please, let's have no contumacy, shall we?)
A Term of the Supreme Court begins, by statute, on the first Monday in October. Usually Court sessions continue until late June or early July. The Term is divided between "sittings," when the Justices hear cases and deliver opinions, and intervening "recesses," when they consider the business before the Court and write opinions. Sittings and recesses alternate at approximately two-week intervals.
Posted by Olivia on September 29, 2012 in In The News - Comments Off on Why Does the Supreme Court Start on the First Monday in October?
The Court is scheduled to open its term on Monday October 1st. However, the traditional start date for the Supreme Court has not always been on the first Monday in October. Originally, the Court had two separate terms as set forth in the Judiciary Act of 1789; the first beginning on the first Monday in February and the second on the first Monday in August. The reasoning behind those dates had to due with the extensive traveling requirements for the justices, long before the era of trains, automobiles, or airplanes. At that time, the justices were required to travel a “circuit,” during times that the Supreme Court was not in session, sitting on local federal courts. The Judiciary Act of 1801, however, expanded the number of District or Circuit courts, which then limited the amount of travel. Of note, all circuit responsibilities for Supreme Court justices were not fully eliminated until 1911. In 1844, the Court began on the first Monday in December. In 1873, the start date was moved to the second Monday in October. Due to the growing number of cases on the docket, in 1917, the official beginning of the term was moved back to the first Monday in October, where it has remained ever since. As is also tradition, the opening session will start with the marshall of the Court calling out “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!” derived from Anglo-Norman and French, and meaning “hear ye.” With the term about to begin, TeenJury reminds all Americans that observing oral arguments at the Supreme Court is a tremendous opportunity to see our government in action. Within seconds, you feel the power of our Constitution and see the wisdom of our founding fathers. “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court.”
Here we go:
The Supreme Court shall hold at the seat of government a term of court commencing on the first Monday in October of each year and may hold such adjourned or special terms as may be necessary.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 869.)
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