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Busy Week at the Supreme Court

Posted: February 24, 2010 | Author: Shon R. Hopwood| Filed under: Supreme Court | Leave a comment
The Court began the week with a flurry granting two cert petitions on Monday in Los Angeles County v. Humphries, No. 09-350 and Harrington v. Richter, No. 09-587.   In Humprhies, the Court was asked to rectify a circuit split on whether a plaintiff, in a request for declaratory relief, must demonstrate that the constitutional violation was [...]

New York Times Article on Shon Hopwood

Posted: February 9, 2010 | Author: Andy Cockle| Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment
On several occasions we have had attorneys question how Shon is so knowledgeable about the Supreme Court, but yet, is not an attorney.  An article in today’s New York Times answers that question.  The article can be viewed here. Both Cockle and Shon want to say thank you to all the Cockle clients who have [...]

Quon Topside Brief Filed

Posted: February 5, 2010 | Author: Shon R. Hopwood| Filed under: Brief Printings | Leave a comment
Today, the Petitioner’s Brief and Joint Appendix were filed in City of Ontario, et al. v. Quon, et al., No. 08-1332.  The Quon case involves the issue of whether the search of a government-issued text-messaging pager used by a SWAT member to send and receive hundreds of personal messages violates the Fourth Amendment right to unreasonable searches [...]
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