Live blog of opinions | February 21, 2018
This live blog features discussion of the four cases decided on this day: Murphy v. Smith, Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, Class v. United States, and Digital Realty Trust v. Somers. We also revealed the true size of the Supreme Court's opinion boxes.
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The Court holds that Dodd-Frank's anti-retaliation provision does not extend to an individual, like the petitioner in this case, who has not reported a violation of the securities law to the SEC. Somers reported potential securities-law violations to the company and was then fired.
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That is apparently the final decision of the day. The justices will hold their private conference on Friday, and we are likely to get orders from that conference on Monday morning at 9:30 am. No way to know yet whether we will get opinions next week, but if we do they would likely be Tuesday and/or Wednesday at 10 am.