When the justices of the US supreme court take their seats on Tuesday morning for the first set of oral arguments of their 2016-2017 session, many court-watchers will have their eyes more on the makeup of the court than the cases themselves. “But it was maybe changing the way that those decisions were communicated.”Split happens: deadlocks rarely occur in the supreme court. The state of Texas later admitted before the supreme court that Quijano’s testimony was prejudicial. (In most other federal districts, these suits can be heard in federal court first.) If the supreme court sides with Manuel, it would become easier for everyone in Illinois – including in the city of Chicago, which faces a variety of allegations of police misconduct – to sue for relief in federal court.

Source: The Guardian October 03, 2016 11:00 UTC