Opinion analysis: Justices toe hard line in affirming reservation status for eastern Oklahoma

Ronald J. Mann | July 10, 2020 | American Indian Law

This article was originally posted on SCOTUSblog.com on July 9, 2020.  The first thing we learned this morning with the announcement of the decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma was that Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t manage to be in the majority in every single 5-4...

Argument Analysis: For the Second Time in Two Terms, Justices Consider Reservation Status of Eastern Oklahoma

Ronald J. Mann | May 14, 2020 | American Indian Law

This article was originally published on SCOTUSblog.com on May 12, 2020. McGirt v. Oklahoma asks whether the eastern half of Oklahoma is an Indian reservation, exempt in important ways from the control of state and local authorities. It would be the most populous...

Argument Preview: Justices to Hear Second Set of Arguments on Reservation Status of Eastern Oklahoma

Ronald J. Mann | May 8, 2020 | American Indian Law

This article was originally published on SCOTUSblog.com on April 30, 2020. McGirt v. Oklahoma will bring the justices a pronounced sense of déjà vu, as they hear argument for the second time in two years about whether the eastern half of Oklahoma is an Indian...

Opinion analysis: Sharply divided bench rejects Georgia’s copyright in annotations of Georgia statutes

Ronald J. Mann | April 27, 2020 | Copyright

This article was originally posted on SCOTUSblog.com on April 27, 2020.   The decision this morning in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org resolves a technical question of copyright law, the extent to which governmental authorities can copyright (and profit from) the...

Argument Analysis: Justices Debate Ability of Business That Did Not Sign Arbitration Agreement to Compel Arbitration

Ronald J. Mann | January 23, 2020 | International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration

This article was originally published on SCOTUSblog.com on Jan. 22, 2020.As noted in my preview last week, GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA is the Supreme Court’s first arbitration case of the 2019 term. For observers familiar with the...