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February 2019 oral arguments

6 cases across 5 argument daysArguments begin at 10 a.m. Eastern
Five argument days, February 19 to February 27, 2019. One of them has more than one case.

1 case
Government challenges to patentsReturn Mail, Inc. v. Postal ServiceWhether the government is a "person" who may petition to institute review proceedings under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.Decided 17-1594

1 case
Trademark licenses in bankruptcyMission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLCWhether, under §365 of the Bankruptcy Code, a debtor-licensor's "rejection" of a license agreement which "constitutes a breach of such contract," 11 U.S.C. §365(g)-terminates rights of the licensee that would survive the licensor's breach under applicable non-bankruptcy law.Decided 17-1657

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Private groups and free speechManhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck1. Whether the Second Circuit erred in rejecting this Court's state actor tests and instead creating a per se rule that private operators of public access channels are state actors subject to constitutional liability. 2. Whether the Second Circuit erred in holding- contrary to the Sixth and D.C. Circuits- that private entities operating public access television stations are state actors for constitutional purposes where the state has no control over the private entity's board or operations.Decided 17-1702

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United States v. HaymondWhether the court of appeals erred in holding "unconstitutional and unenforceable" the portions of 18 U.S.C. 3583(k) that required the district court to revoke respondent's ten-year term of supervised release, and to impose five years of reimprisonment, following its finding by a preponderance of the evidence that respondent violated the conditions of his release by knowingly possessing child pornography.Decided 17-1672Supervised release during detentionMont v. United States1. Whether a statute directed to the administration of imprisoned individuals serves as authority to alter or suspend the running of a criminal sentence of supervised release, when such "tolling'' is without judicial action, and requires the term "imprisonment" as used in the administrative statute, to include pretrial detention prior to an adjudication of guilt. 2. Is a district court required to exercise its jurisdiction in order to suspend the running of a supervised release sentence as directed under 18 U.S.C. §3583(i) prior to expiration of the term of supervised release, when a supervised releasee is in pretrial detention, or does 18 U.S.C. §3624 (e) toll the running of supervised release while in pretrial detention?Decided 17-8995

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Cross-shaped war memorialsAmerican Legion v. American Humanist Assn.1. Whether a 93-year-old memorial to the fallen of World War I is unconstitutional merely because it is shaped like a cross? 2. Whether the constitutionality of a passive display incorporating religious symbolism should be assessed under the tests articulated in Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971), Van Orden v. Perry, 545 U.S. 677 (2005), Town of Greece v. Galloway, 134 S. Ct. 1811 (2014), or some other test? 3. Whether, if the test from Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971), is applied, the memorial violates that test?Decided 17-1717