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Opinion analysis: Justices narrow bankrupts’ power to rescind contracts in bankruptcy – Ronald Mann

Opinion analysis: Clarity on “clear evidence” of drug pre-emption? – Elizabeth McCuskey

Opinion analysis: Court rejects issue preclusion in affirming Crow Tribe’s treaty hunting right – Gregory Ablavsky

Live blog of opinions | June 26, 2018 (with SCOTUS Map and First Mondays)

Live blog of opinions | June 26, 2018 (with SCOTUS Map and First Mondays)

We live-blogged as the Supreme Court released its opinions in Trump v. Hawaii and National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra. Dan Epps and Leah Litman of First Mondays and Victoria Kwan of SCOTUS Map joined us on the live blog.

We live-blogged as the Supreme Court released its opinions in Trump v. Hawaii and National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra. Dan Epps and Leah Litman of First Mondays and Victoria Kwan of SCOTUS Map joined us on the live blog.

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To the question on CVSGs, the Court grants cert in 34% of cases in which it calls for the views of the SG. www.law.com

by Dr. Shake Shack 6/26/2018 1:28:01 PM
Any way we could get a description of RBG’s collar at the start of each morning’s liveblog to help predict what the day will look like?

by UnionThug 6/26/2018 1:28:06 PM
I know conventional wisdom says that Janus will be a win for the challengers. Aside from the assumption that Gorsuch will side with the "conservative" Justices, though, what's the basis for this prediction? Gorsuch was silent during oral argument.

by Dave 6/26/2018 1:29:17 PM
This has probably been asked before but do the Justices keep the same office throughout their tenure and do new Justices always move into the vacant office? For example: is Gorsuch now in Scalia's old office and Kagan in Steven's? When a vacancy happens could a sitting Justice say, "hey I've always wanted that office can I relocate there?"

by MattimeoDory 6/26/2018 1:29:23 PM
Who’s left to write decisions?

by Ken P 6/26/2018 1:29:39 PM
Couldn't one sort of "punt" on the travel ban be that the Court rules for Trump on the statutory questions and remand on the constitutional question, since AFAIK the lower court didn't base its decision on the constitutional claim?

by Shashakiro 6/26/2018 1:30:07 PM
@victoria J. Breyer seems by far the most worldly--is that typical or just this summer?

by wustl-bears 6/26/2018 1:30:15 PM
may be CJ Roberts can give scotusblog a shout out at the beginning of a session one day?

by drew 6/26/2018 1:31:00 PM
Are any of you aware of whether the court has given consideration to how they will docket cases in the year 2070? They cannot use 70-xxxx because that will repeat dockets from 1970. My datasets are already a mess with this pre-1970 docketing system where no year reference is used, and I have anxiety thinking about re-normalizing everything in a mere 52 years!

by QuantumCatBox 6/26/2018 1:31:13 PM
RBG: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be in Rome for Loyola University Chicago’s summer law program. Ginsburg will talk about the court and Constitution, while her daughter and law professor Jane Ginsburg will participate in the program’s international art law course.

by lrflw 6/26/2018 1:31:26 PM
Why so many days to announce decisions? Why not release all on one day?

by OTB 6/26/2018 1:31:27 PM
What's the chance we get NIFLA today?

by 3L New Yorker 6/26/2018 1:31:59 PM
Is there an order list for today?

by hdcb 6/26/2018 1:32:06 PM
For someone new, could someone explain RGB's collar?

by DavidFagan 6/26/2018 1:32:49 PM
Is it true that Gorsuch remained silent during Janus only because he is friends with the union's advocate? If so, it begs the question whether friendship overrides ideology or vice versa....

by The Endless Term 6/26/2018 1:33:27 PM
Are the chambers busy today? The rest of the week?

by EKNY 6/26/2018 1:33:44 PM
I had several dreams last night about the Court releasing opinions in some of these pending cases. Interestingly enough, I think the same result was reached in each dream. I may have to change my name to either Entirely interested or Overly interested.

by Simply interested 6/26/2018 1:34:28 PM
Is it true Gorsuch is a vampire?

by EKNY 6/26/2018 1:34:37 PM
I think Roberts will write Janus and Alito will do travel ban. Chief will take up First Amwndment issue.

by Kim 6/26/2018 1:35:19 PM
If a Justice is late (e.g. traffic), does the Court delay the start of proceedings or just go on without them?

by oxwof 6/26/2018 1:35:23 PM
Once they Break for Summer, why don't they regularly release orders? Rather than Waiting until October's Pile Up?

by DeanO 6/26/2018 1:35:33 PM
When will arguments OT2018 cases be scheduled?

by Chris 6/26/2018 1:35:37 PM
Is Carpenter the most import decision of the term?

by EKNY 6/26/2018 1:36:23 PM
I have never quite understood the reasoning behind this: Why does Thomas not speak at oral argument? Given how much he writes, he is certainly not shy about sharing an opinion.

by Aladin 6/26/2018 1:36:25 PM
Do you think the Court is dragging out these decisions simply to prevent recent grads from studying for the bar?

by Anna 6/26/2018 1:36:38 PM
Scotus Map has Justices Gorsuch and Kennedy "co-teaching" courses in Europe this Summer. Are these 2 day seminars or are these Justices really teaching summer school and grading papers?

by dan 6/26/2018 1:37:07 PM
I think Janus is the most important decision of the term. They're about to upend tends of thousands of labor contracts. Get ready for massive labor uprisings throughout fair-share states.

by Drew 6/26/2018 1:38:17 PM
Speaking of case numbers, what happens to the numbering system if filings increase beyond 9,999 per term? We're already up past 9,500 this term. Will SCOTUS switch to a five-digit system like some courts of appeals have?

by JVB 6/26/2018 1:38:25 PM
What's the temperature like in the court house?

by Jaston 6/26/2018 1:38:47 PM
What do you think it would take for the Court to start hearing more cases again?

by Justin Pearson 6/26/2018 1:39:42 PM
I may be in the minority here, but I think the frequent questioning from the judges detracts from oral arguments

by Tyler 6/26/2018 1:40:11 PM
Is it my imagination, or does the Court hold the biggest cases for the very end for dramatic effect?

by Steve 6/26/2018 1:40:29 PM
Any intel on where Lazarus and Roberts are planning on "working" this summer?

by Bobby Tables 6/26/2018 1:40:48 PM
So: Four opinions today, or do we come back tomorrow?

by Jay Michaelson 6/26/2018 1:41:43 PM
Very important question: what do the justices wear under their robes?

by Dan 6/26/2018 1:41:56 PM
Can the Court grant more cert petitions during next term to fill up its calendar?

by Hank 6/26/2018 1:42:13 PM
If the Chief wants to avoid drama they shouldn’t have had Carpenter, Janus, and Trump/Hawaii all come out in the same week!

by Jim 6/26/2018 1:42:23 PM
Is it more likely than normal someone dissents from the bench in Janus or Trump v. Hawaii? Assuming they come down how I anticipate, I imagine some of the minority might feel so compelled.

by Jim 6/26/2018 1:42:27 PM
Apropos of the question about justices being late for oral arguments or opinion announcements, Mark Walsh reminds me that not only was Justice Scalia late one day, but he was supposed to announce an opinion, so the Chief had to do it for him.

by Amy Howe 6/26/2018 1:43:00 PM
Can you explain the process once a decision has been finalised and the opinion written.

Who gets to see it next after the Justices? Is there someone to proofread or double check references or to reformat it?

by ChrisInEngland 6/26/2018 1:43:56 PM
While it is true that time is consumed by the questioning during oral arguments, is it also not true that many of these questions are really being posed from one ideological side of the bench to the other, enabling them to argue with one another (with the lawyer being a proxy)? If so, isn't that an important function of the oral arguments themselves?

by The Worrier 6/26/2018 1:44:24 PM
Amy, what do the boxes look like? I always imagine super ornate chests being presented to the reporters. Or are they boring cardboard boxes?

by cbrown 6/26/2018 1:44:31 PM
Who gets the revenue (quarters) generated by the lockers at the court?

by EKNY 6/26/2018 1:44:39 PM
Any chance Janus will be held over until fall? Maybe because someone’s dissent isn’t finished? (Fingers crossed)

by Minnesota Union Atty 6/26/2018 1:45:08 PM
As an institution, how many cases per year is the Court really equipped to handle?

by cwgivens21 6/26/2018 1:45:28 PM

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On Monday, the justices released their opinions in Mission Product Holdings Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC, Herrera v. Wyoming and Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Albrecht.
On Thursday, the justices meet for their May 23 conference.
Major Cases
- Department of Commerce v. New York
  (1) Whether the district court erred in enjoining the secretary of the Department of Commerce from reinstating a question about citizenship to the 2020 decennial census on the ground that the secretary’s decision violated the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 U.S.C. 701 et seq; (2) whether, in an action seeking to set aside agency action under the APA, a district court may order discovery outside the administrative record to probe the mental processes of the agency decisionmaker -- including by compelling the testimony of high-ranking executive branch officials -- without a strong showing that the decisionmaker disbelieved the objective reasons in the administrative record, irreversibly prejudged the issue, or acted on a legally forbidden basis; and (3) whether the secretary’s decision to add a citizenship question to the decennial census violated the enumeration clause of the U.S. Constitution.
- Lamone v. Benisek
  In case in which the plaintiffs allege that a Maryland congressional district was gerrymandered to retaliate against them for their political views: (1) whether the various legal claims articulated by the three-judge district court are unmanageable; (2) whether the three-judge district court erred when, in granting plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment, it resolved disputes of material fact as to multiple elements of plaintiffs’ claims, failed to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the non-moving party, and treated as “undisputed” evidence that is the subject of still-unresolved hearsay and other evidentiary objections; and (3) whether the three-judge district court abused its discretion in entering an injunction despite the plaintiffs’ years-long delay in seeking injunctive relief, rendering the remedy applicable to at most one election before the next decennial census necessitates another redistricting.
- Kisor v. Wilkie
  Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Auer v. Robbins and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., which direct courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of its own ambiguous regulation.
- Rucho v. Common Cause
  (1) Whether plaintiffs have standing to press their partisan gerrymandering claims; (2) whether plaintiffs’ partisan gerrymandering claims are justiciable; and (3) whether North Carolina’s 2016 congressional map is, in fact, an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
- The American Legion v. American Humanist Association
  (1) Whether a 93-year-old memorial to the fallen of World War I is unconstitutional merely because it is shaped like a cross; (2) whether the constitutionality of a passive display incorporating religious symbolism should be assessed under the tests articulated in Lemon v. Kurtzman, Van Orden v. Perry, Town of Greece v. Galloway or some other test; and (3) whether, if the test from Lemon v. Kurtzman applies, the expenditure of funds for the routine upkeep and maintenance of a cross-shaped war memorial, without more, amounts to an excessive entanglement with religion in violation of the First Amendment.
- Gamble v. United States
  Whether the Supreme Court should overrule the “separate sovereigns” exception to the double jeopardy clause.
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Recent Decisions
- Herrera v. Wyoming Wyoming’s statehood did not abrogate the Crow Tribe’s 1868 federal treaty right to hunt on the “unoccupied lands of the United States”; the lands of the Bighorn National Forest did not become categorically “occupied” when the forest was created.
- Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. v. Albrecht “Clear evidence” that the Food and Drug Administration would not have approved a change to a drug’s label – thus pre-empting a state-law failure-to-warn claim – is evidence showing that the drug manufacturer fully informed the FDA of the justifications for the warning required by state law and that the FDA, in turn, informed the drug manufacturer that the FDA would not approve a change to the drug’s label to include that warning; the question of agency disapproval is primarily one of law for a judge to decide.
- Mission Product Holdings Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC A bankruptcy debtor’s rejection of an executory contract under 11 U.S.C. §365 has the same effect as a breach of that contract outside bankruptcy; such an act thus cannot rescind rights that the contract previously granted.
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Current Relists
- al-Alwi v. Trump (1) Whether the government’s statutory authority to detain Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi has unraveled; (2) whether, alternatively, the government’s statutory authority to detain al-Alwi has expired because the conflict in which he was captured has ended; and (3) whether the Authorization for Use of Military Force authorizes, and the Constitution permits, detention of an individual who was not “engaged in an armed conflict against the United States” in Afghanistan prior to his capture.
- Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc. (1) Whether a state may require health-care facilities to dispose of fetal remains in the same manner as other human remains, i.e., by burial or cremation; and (2) whether a state may prohibit abortions motivated solely by the race, sex or disability of the fetus and require abortion doctors to inform patients of the prohibition.
- Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc. Whether a state, consistent with the 14th Amendment, may require an ultrasound as part of informed consent at least 18 hours before an abortion.
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