Live blog of opinions - June 30, 2020
We live-blogged on Tuesday, June 30, as the court released opinions in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com and Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. SCOTUSblog is sponsored by Casetext: making litigation more efficient with A.I. and machine learning technology.
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Good Tuesday Opinion morning, all! Quick question- in “Ordinary Time” the Chief announces on the penultimate day that the next sitting will be the final day of the term. With everything being electronic at the moment are we expecting some similar announcement or just sort of waiting for all of the opinions to be released? (Of course it needs noted that until said announcement we don’t know if it’s the penultimate day!) Thanks!
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The justices have nine/ten decisions left to release, depending on exactly how it plays out. I have an updated list of them here: http://amylhowe.com/2020/06/29/and-then-there-were-nine-the-terms-remaining-decisions/
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And we are delighted to have you here, but in case we aren't answering your questions, there is a list of FAQs here: https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/06/faqs-announcements-of-orders-and-opinions-4/
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I am about to crack open my last can of Coke Zero. Which is a real moral dilemma because (in this pandemic world) I am constantly telling my kids that we can't run to the grocery store every time we run out of something non-essential. But Coke Zero is arguably essential while the Court is issuing opinions, right?
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I'm biased because I'm a SCOTUSnerd, but if the world thinks the last week of opinions was impactful, wait until Oklahoma is released and 2.5 million people living in eastern Oklahoma, including Tulsa, are told by Justice Gorsuch that they now live on Creek Nation reservation land ... we've been discussing this case for nearly two years and the media barely covers it. Yet the impact is extraordinary.
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There are usually questions about how scotus decides who writes opinions, but how does scotusblog decide who writes the analysis? Did Amy volunteer for cases months ago out of interest or work division and it was just poor luck that yesterday all 3 were her picks? Pick them out of a hat? Dart board?
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Quick question: when McGirt v Oklahoma is decided, the Court then has to dispense of Royal v Murphy from the OT18 term. In this era of digital-only announcements, does Royal get out in an orders list, or would they publish it like they publish this term's opinions? I assume "Miscellaneous Orders" the same day as McGirt opinion?
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One observation from this term: The most reliable four-justice grouping in an "important" case is RBG, SB, SS, EK.
It is quite remarkable, isn't it, that the Ginsburg-Breyer-Sotomayor-Kagan, JJ., bloc is yet to have a single justice depart from her philosophically left leaning colleagues, without exception in a major case this term.
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