A Seat at the Sitting - October 2021

Streamed live on September 30, 2021

Join us for the inaugural episode of the Federalist Society’s Supreme Court Show: A Seat at the Sitting. Each month, a panel of constitutional experts will convene to discuss the Court’s upcoming docket and debrief oral arguments from the previous month. During the first two weeks of October, the Justices will hear eight oral arguments on cases ranging from national security and civil procedure to criminal law and water law. The case names, issues, and dates of argument are listed below:

• Mississippi v. Tennessee – water law and original jurisdiction – October 4
• Wooden v. United States – the Armed Career Criminal Act – October 4
• Brown v. Davenport – Federal habeas petitions under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 – October 5
• Hemphill v. New York – the Federal Rules of Evidence and the Confrontation Clause – October 5
• United States v. Zubaydah – the CIA and the state secret’s privilege – October 6
• Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center – state civil procedure and abortion – October 12
• Thompson v. Clark – procedure for civil claims for deprivation of rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 – October 12
• United States v. Tsarnaev – challenges to the capital conviction of the Boston marathon bomber – October 13
• Babcock v. Kijakazi – civil service pensions and the Social Security Act – October 13

Featuring:
-- Sarah Harris, Partner, Williams & Connolly
-- Jonathan Adler, Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director, Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
-- Kate Comerford Todd, Former Deupty White House Counsel