Five minute buzzer just sounded. Getting closer. We have three boxes!
For comparison, we had two yesterday.
If it's three boxes, four opinions, I'm claiming 50% of infinite glory.
Okay, time to go in to wait. Back ssoon.
We have the first case, from Gorsuch. It is Currier v. Virginia, and it is affirmed.
In Parts I and II of the ruling, the court holds that because Currier agreed to have the charges tried separately, his trial and conviction on the felon-in-possession charge did not violate the Double Jeopardy Clause.
That takes Gorsuch out of February, which suggests again that Alito has Janus.
In Part III, which is Gorsuch joined by the Chief Justice and Thomas and Alito, the Court concludes that civil issue preclusion principles cannot be imported into the criminal law through the Double Jeopardy Clause. Kennedy concluded that they didn't need to reach this issue.
Ginsburg dissents, joined by Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan.
Okay, heading back in. Returning shortly.
We have the next opinion. It is from Kagan, it is Ortiz/Dalmazzi v. United States. The decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces is affirmed.
Only dissenters are Alito, joined by Gorsuch. Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor join in full.
Court holds first that the court has jurisdiction to review a decision by the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
This is a rare case in which a non-government (and non-appointed-by-the-Court) amicus was permitted to participate in oral argument.
Thomas’s concurrence is about the original understanding of the public v. private rights distinction as it relates to Article III.
Court then holds that the simultaneous service on the court of criminal appeals and the CMCR was lawful.
Breyer is going to have the Florida v. Georgia decision. That's all I have to say about that.
In a footnote, the court dismisses the two other cases -- Dalmazzi v. US and Cox v. US -- as improvidently granted.
Going back in to wait for the next decision. Apparently we are down to one box now. Under normal opinion announcement rules, we could still hear from everyone but Gorsuch.
We have the next (but not last) opinion in WesternGeco v. ION Geophysical. It is by Justice Thomas, and the lower court decision was reversed and remanded.
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