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Thu Oct 1, 2015, 09:37 PM Oct 2015

SCOTUSblog details the 13 new cases the Supreme Court has accepted for review..

Taking on a new case that tests Congress’s power over the courts, but also gets into a sensitive question of U.S.-Iran dealings, the Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to review a legislative mandate on legal rights at issue in a case filed by victims of terrorism.

The case filed by Iran’s central bank, Bank Markazi v. Peterson, was one of thirteen new cases that the Justices accepted for review in the new Term that formally opens next Monday. It is likely that the Court will hear oral arguments in the new cases in January and February.

Other newly accepted cases will deal with the duty of a state judge to stay out of a death penalty case after having pursued it previously as a prosecutor, a criminal case that tests the constitutional status of Puerto Rico (a U.S. commonwealth), and a return to an issue the Court has considered before: the power of U.S. courts to decide claims of business misconduct that occurred overseas.

The Iran case is a thoroughly modern dispute over paying for deaths and injuries caused by terrorists, but it will take the Court back to a precedent that dates from the Civil War era dealing with the question of disloyalty of Confederate sympathizers. That 1872 ruling, in the case of United States v. Klein, laid down the principle that Congress acts unconstitutionally when it directs a federal court on how a pending case should be decided.

Read the rest at: http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/10/court-to-rule-on-congresss-power-over-courts

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