Good morning and welcome to our live blog.
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our live blog, sponsored by Casetext.
Thanks for joining us. I am not at the court today (spring break, baby!) but am delighted to be here with you to see what opinions we'll be getting. And as is almost always the case, we don't know what opinions we'll be getting or how many.
We are only waiting on one case from the October sitting now: Gundy v. United States. Justice Sotomayor is the only justice who hasn't written from that sitting yet, so she is almost certainly writing in Gundy. November still has three cases undecided, but everyone but Gorsuch has written (I believe) AND Frank v. Gaos was not signed, so it's going to be very difficult to game out who is writing what.
Also, as predicted, my apologies for "ghosting" you yesterday. Justice Alito's summary of the decision in the Sudan v. Harrison case was literally just a sentence or two, so I had to scramble to get upstairs for the start of the partisan gerrymandering cases.
We have the first (and, according to Kimberly Robinson of BNA, only) opinion of the day, in Lorenzo v. SEC.
The DC Circuit is affirmed.
It is by Breyer, and the vote is 6-2 (Kavanaugh did not participate).
Thomas dissents, joined by Gorsuch.
The court holds that the dissemination of false or misleading statements with intent to defraud can fall within the scope of federal securities fraud laws and regulations, even if the person who disseminates them did not "make" the statements and therefore falls outside the scope of a federal securities rule.
And that is all the opinions for today. The Lorenzo case is from the court's December sitting, so we are going to have to wait until next week (at least) to see whether we get Gundy v. US and any of the November cases.
Okay, that is all for today. Hopefully we will be back next Monday from the court for opinions again. We'll have a note on the blog later this week once we can confirm that there will indeed be opinions on Monday, April 1. Thanks for joining us, and have a good week, wherever you are!
Thank you for joining us! Today we will have Amy's analysis of the argument in Kisor v. Wilkie, as well as opinion analyses from Sandi Zellmer for yesterday's Sturgeon v. Frost and from Ronald Mann for today's Lorenzo v. SEC. Plus maybe Relist Watch and other content. Hope to be back with you Monday or next opinion day!
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