Live blog of orders and opinions | June 18, 2018 (with First Mondays)
We live-blogged as the Supreme Court released orders from the June 14 conference and opinions in argued cases. The justices granted certiorari in five cases: Sturgeon v. Frost, Garza v. Idaho, Lorenzo v. SEC, Timbs v. Indiana and Apple v. Pepper. The justices released their decisions in Rosales-Mireles v. United States, Chavez-Meza v. United States, Lozman v. Riviera Beach, Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone.
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If CJ Roberts rules in favor of Carpenter, I will sing:
On the day that you were born the angels got together
And decided to create a dream come true
So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair of gold and starlight in your eyes of blue.
From:
(They Long to Be) Close to You
by Burt Bacharach & Hal David -
Just wondering if you all have any thoughts on what might be happening with Bormuth v. Jackson County and Rowan County v. Lund, the two cases from the en banc Fourth and Sixth Circuits about legislative prayer. The two lower court decisions seem to be in pretty clear conflict, but both cert petitions have been repeatedly rescheduled (Lund since January; Bormuth since March). That sort of repeat rescheduling rather than relisting isn't really something I've seen before (and there doesn't seem to be any case in the pipeline that they might be waiting for), so I'd love to get your take on what might be happening. Thanks!!
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If the Chief has Gil (as most suspect), then we must be looking at a decision on standing, and not the merits, right? If we assume that J. Kennedy is still keeping the door open on partisan gerrymandering claims, then I don't see 5 votes for a merits decision. But, please, tell me otherwise.
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I’m honestly curious, and I know you mentioned it on the podcasts and I’ve listened and read it elsewhere, but there have been few if any grants in new cases for next years term for a while. I saw there was a CVSG. Any theories as to the slow pace of granting new cases?
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To address some of the questions in the queue about who might be writing what, I had a post last week at my blog addressing this very topic:
Reading the tea leaves: June 15 edition
Amy HoweThe Supreme Court issued six new rulings in argued cases this week: four on Monday, and two more yesterday. The new opinions mean that 19 cases now remain undecided, but they did not shed a lot of new light on who might be writing those outstanding opinions. Here’s what we do know. There is still... Read More -
When the opinions are announced, how do outsiders (ie. people not physically in the courtroom) get this info? Is it released to the scotus website or scotusblog at the same time? Are members of the media livetweeting? Are they allowed their phones in (since members of the general public aren't)? Do the interns really just run that fast?
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We are expecting orders from last week's conference in a few minutes. The big cert petition before the justices last week was, once again, Arlene's Flowers v. Washington, involving florists but otherwise a very similar fact pattern to Masterpiece Cakeshop. Also, a big antitrust case involving something near and dear to many of our hearts : Apple v. Pepper, involving the sale of apps in Apple's App Store.
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We'll be getting orders in a few minutes. What are orders? Actions that the court took at its most recent conference -- Amy Howe with this and other answers to frequently asked questions in this post.
FAQs: Announcements of orders and opinions - SCOTUSblog
SCOTUSblogThis post — which is an updated version of posts that we have published in earlier terms — addresses some of the questions about orders and opinion announcements that we have commonly received during our live blogs. If you have a question that you don’t see answered here, please feel free to ask it
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