Vallejos v Commissioner of Registration
Justice Johnson Lam Man-hon of the CFI had been expected to rule on the case on 29 September 2011. However, the Hong Kong Observatory raised tropical cyclone warning signal No. 8 due to the approach of Typhoon Nesat early that morning, meaning that government offices closed for the day. The next morning, the weather had returned to normal, and Lam announced his ruling that the relevant provision of the Immigration Ordinance was inconsistent with the Basic Law. Vallejos herself did not attend court that day, as she was at work.
Quill Corp. v. North Dakota
South Dakota was the first state to complete its bill and establish the need for a Supreme Court judicial review. In October 2017, the state of South Dakota filed a petition for "certiorari" in the U.S. Supreme Court urging it to "abrogate "Quill"s sales-tax-only, physical-presence requirement". In the petition for "certiorari", under the case name "South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.", South Dakota noted that advances in computer technology have made it easier to determine appropriate sales tax based on the purchaser's location and requiring such "poses a minimal obstacle" in an era where retailers can easily tailor their online marketing based on customers' IP addresses. South Dakota argued that "Quill" should be overturned and that the case satisfied the Supreme Court's criteria for declining to overturn its previous ruling under the doctrine of "stare decisis". The Court agreed to hear the case in January 2018, with arguments heard in April 2018. The Court ruled in June 2018 on a 5-4 decision that the physical presence aspect of "Quill" was "unsound and incorrect" with the state of current technology, and overturned "Quill" along with the remaining parts of "National Bellas Hess".