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Timestamp: 2019-04-21 16:13:30+00:00

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Thursday’s coverage of the Court largely focused on the opinions it released earlier this week.
Tuesday’s opinion in Missouri v. McNeely, in which the Court held that in drunk-driving investigations, the natural dissipation of alcohol in the bloodstream does not inevitably constitute an exigency sufficient to justify conducting a blood test without a warrant, similarly continues to attract attention. Coverage of the opinion comes from David Savage at the Los Angeles Times and Brandon Gatto at JURIST.
The Court also heard oral argument this week in several cases. At Patent Docs, Kevin Noonan comments on Monday’s oral argument in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, in which it is considering the patent-eligibility of human genes. Noonan predicts that the government’s “‘compromise’ position” regarding the patent-eligibility of cDNA but not genomic DNA has the best chance of prevailing in the case.
On Monday, the Court also heard argument in United States v. Davila, in which it is considering whether any degree of judicial participation in plea negotiations, in violation of Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11(c)(1), automatically requires vacatur of a defendant’s guilty plea, irrespective of whether the error was prejudicial. Rory Little reports on the argument in what he refers to as “[t]his little-noticed case” for this blog.
Also for this blog, Miriam Seifter reports on Tuesday’s oral arguments in American Trucking Associations, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles, in which the Court is considering whether the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act contains an unexpressed “market participant” exception permitting a municipal government to take action that would otherwise conflict with the Act’s express preemption clause, at least under specified circumstances. Michael Piraino, writing at the Huffington Post, weighs in on Tuesday’s other oral argument, in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, in which the Court is considering whether a non-custodial parent of a child can invoke the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 to block an adoption by a non-Indian parent.
Writing at the Brennan Center for Justice, Sidney Rosdeitcher and Katriana Roh preview next week’s oral arguments in Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, in which the Court will consider whether a law requiring an organization to maintain a policy explicitly opposing prostitution in order to receive federal funding to provide HIV and AIDS programs overseas violates the First Amendment.
At the New York Review of Books, David Cole has an essay remembering the path-breaking reporting and writing about the Court by Anthony Lewis, who passed away in late March.
Both Geoffrey Stone at the Huffington Post and Jeremy Leaming at ACSblog comment on a speech given by Justice Scalia earlier this week. Conor and Cormac have already rounded up earlier coverage of the event.

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