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Case of the Day: Smith v. Garland
The case of the day is Smith v. Garland (9th Cir. 2024). Smith was a citizen of Guyana. He had immigrated legally as a child in 1982, but in 2018, he was convicted of possession of methamphetamines with intent to distribute and was sentenced to a long prison term, which he is still serving. The……
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Case of the Day: Moriarty v. Jordan
The case of the day is Moriarty v. Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (D.D.C. 2024). In 2016, a Jordanian soldier, Ma’arek Al-Tawayha, known as Abu Tayeh, shot and killed three American soldiers stationed at Jordan’s King Faisal Airbase. Abu Tayeh was convicted of manslaughter and military offenses in Jordan and is serving a life sentence there.……
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Case of the Day: Bunce v. Glock, Inc.
The case of the day is Bunce v. Glock, Inc. (D. Vt. 2024). The case arose out of a tragedy: in 2021, the plaintiffs’ three-year-old son accidentally shot himself in the face with a Glock pistol. The claim was that the “product,” the gun, had been defectively designed. The defendants were Glock, Inc., a Georgia……
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Case of the Day: Coinbase v. Suski
The case of the day is Coinbase, Inc. v. Suski (S. Ct. 2024). Cases about arbitration can get very abstract very quickly. I like the way Justice Jackson categorized arbitration disputes in her new opinion. The most straightforward cases are decisions on the merits of a dispute. At the next level of abstraction, the question……
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Case of the Day: Fuld v. PLO
The case of the day is Fuld v. PLO (2d Cir. 2024). It’s a denial of a petition for an en banc rehearing in an important personal jurisdiction case, and since the Second Circuit is so stingy with en banc rehearings, the decision isn’t a surprise. There are, though, two interesting opinions, one a concurrence……