On Monday, September 12, 2011, the 10th Circuit Court held a hearing on the constitutionality challenge to the Oklahoma state constitutional amendment, passed overwhelmingly in November of 2010, to prevent courts in Oklahoma from using international law or shariah law in their decisions.
Not only do Federal Circuit judges spend all their time hearing arguments from patent attorneys, but some of them are former patent attorneys themselves.
At a hearing yesterday, a three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals appeared unlikely to grant Wal-Mart's request to dismiss the class action.
But Luttig is seen as much more controversial, both because of his record of written opinions and because he ran Clarence Thomas' confirmation hearing in 1991 after he'd been confirmed as a judge on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and that's raised some questions among legal ethics experts.
But the Ninth Circuit decided to take the case "en banc" with 11 of its 29 judges hearing the case together and held by a vote of 8-3 that reasonable suspicion was necessary.
Malvo is awaiting a preliminary hearing in juvenile court next week, but his case is widely expected to be moved to circuit court for trial later this year or 2004.