Federal Judiciary

Petition of the day

By Conor McEvily

Today?s first petition of the day is:

Title: Missouri v. Kruse
Docket: 10-264
Issue(s): Under the Fourth Amendment, is it reasonable for police officers to make a limited entry onto an individual's curtilage for the purposes of covering the rear exit of the home, while other officers conduct a "knock and talk" at the front door to investigate their probable-cause belief that the subject of an active arrest warrant is inside the home?

Certiorari-Stage Documents

• Opinion below (Court of Appeals of Missouri, Western District)
• Petition for certiorari

Today’s second petition of the day is:

Title: City of Colton v. American Promotional Events, Inc.-West
Docket: 10-284
Issue(s): Whether the declaratory judgment provision of § 113(g)(2) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA") preempts the Declaratory Judgment Act as applied in the CERCLA context, thereby precluding CERCLA plaintiffs from asserting declaratory relief claims for future cleanup costs if they cannot recover past cleanup costs.

Certiorari-Stage Documents

• Opinion below (9th Circuit)
• Petition for certiorari

Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on September 24, 2010 (boomark / email).