Live blog of orders and opinions | June 24, 2019
We live-blogged as the Supreme Court released orders and opinions. The justices released their opinions in four argued cases: United States v. Davis, Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, Iancu v. Brunetti and The Dutra Group v. Batterton. SCOTUSblog is sponsored by Casetext: A more intelligent way to search the law.
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Re: Banister, that's actually kind of a big deal. Pro se parties sometimes file several motions with various labels or claims and courts often struggle with that to do with them, how to construe them, and whether to warn the petitioner about AEDPA habeas provisions. What SCOTUS says will directly affect how courts operate.
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@AmyHowe regarding Georgia v. Public Resource - what's the argument for granting cert in this case? It would seem to me that the laws of a state and the interpretations of those laws made by courts would be in the public domain, as the 11CA indicated - similarly to the "Constitution, Annotated" prepared by the CRS.
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In about 10 minutes we'll be getting opinions in argued cases. We don't know exactly which ones are coming today, but in general Tom Goldstein and Sarah Harrington are participating in a webinar on Friday to review the whole term. More at this link: https://info.casetext.com/supreme-court-review-registration/
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A little bit left-field....any idea on how long between when the Court Reporter gets the finished opinion for the purpose of writing the syllabus (which I assume takes a bit of time to do) and when the opinion actually gets released? It seems like there is a gap period between when an opinion is done and when it is released, during which the Reporter reads and analyzes.
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One more time before opinions come down: Here are Amy's answers to "frequently asked questions": https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/06/faqs-announcements-of-orders-and-opinions-3/
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Here's the opinion in US v. Davis. Leah Litman will have our analysis:
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This will go down as another split between Gorsuch and Kavanaugh in terms of their tendency to side with the Court's liberal wing, but I think this is not remotely surprising to Court watchers. Gorsuch has channeled this aspect of Justice Scalia's jurisprudence (as many have noted) while Kavanaugh has -- throughout his career -- generally been a law-and-order conservative on issues like this one.
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Responding to a question from Friday about who is the lest known Justice, that would be Justice Breyer. A C-SPAN poll last year found that more than half of Americans cannot name ANY Justice currently on the court. Those who could were most likely to name Ginsburg. Breyer was least likely to be named, narrowly beating out Scalia (who died two years earlier), Kavanaugh (who was not yet confirmed), and Kennedy (who had retired).
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This is a case about the interpretation of Exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act, which allows the government to withhold “confidential” commercial or financial records submitted to administrative agencies. The case centers on whether the government should withhold any commercial or financial information that is not publicly disseminated, or whether the entity opposing the disclosure of information must show that the disclosure would likely cause substantial competitive harm.
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Here's the opinion in Food Marketing in Argus Leader Media. Mark Fenster will have our analysis:
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Here's the opinion in Iancu v. Brunetti. Megan Carpenter will have our analysis: