Supreme Court

The morning read for Tuesday, Nov. 19

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

U.S. Supreme Court will not review St. Clair capital murder case (Ralph Chapoco, Alabama Reflector)
US Supreme Court rejects appeal over patent validity in Postal Service case (Blake Brittain, Reuters)
Would Trump’s Justices Approve His Recess Appointments? (Jed Rubenfeld, The Wall Street Journal)
FDR’s Compliant Justices (Jed S. Rakoff, The New York Review of Books)
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The morning read for Friday, Nov. 15

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:

Lawyer who argued for Trump’s immunity at Supreme Court is tapped for solicitor general (Josh Gerstein, Politico)
Trump picks lawyer who won his presidential immunity case for solicitor general (Alex Swoyer, The Washington Times)
Supreme Court Wary of Big Ruling in Nvidia Shareholder Case (Greg Stohr, Bloomberg)
Supreme Court Justices Discuss Peanut the Squirrel’s Death (James Bickerton,

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Trump taps lawyer who argued his immunity case for solicitor general

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he intends to nominate D. John Sauer, who successfully argued in the Supreme Court earlier this year that Trump is entitled to broad immunity from prosecution, to serve as the solicitor general of the United States.

Trump made the announcement in a statement on Thursday evening, calling Sauer a “deeply accomplished, masterful appellate attorney.”

The 50-year-old Sauer has many of the credentials associated with others who have served as the country’s top … Read the rest

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The morning read for Wednesday, Nov. 13

The world’s most valuable company is before the justices today for oral arguments in NVIDIA Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:

Sparks fly as justices spar with feds over deportation deadlines (Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News Service)
Mafia Case Tests Supreme Court on Crime of Violence Limits (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law)
US Supreme Court turns away

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Wisconsin parents challenge school support plan for transgender students

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.

The Supreme Court continues to whittle down its backlog of relisted cases. At the last conference, the court disposed of four. It noted probable jurisdiction (the arcane term for when the court decides to review one of the few types of cases over which it has mandatory appellate jurisdiction) in a case involving … Read the rest

Supreme Court

The morning read for Friday, Nov. 8

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:

US Supreme Court mulls Facebook bid to escape securities fraud suit (John Kruzel, Reuters)
Trump will name more conservative judges. He may even pick a majority of the Supreme Court. (Sahil Kapur & Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
As Trump grasps unprecedented power, the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity looms large (John Fritze, CNN)
Keep the Nine

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Justices skeptical about Facebook’s data breach disclosure to investors

The justices heard arguments Wednesday in Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank, their first securities case of the year. The case involves the 2015 Cambridge Analytica-Facebook data breach, and considers whether Facebook’s disclosures to investors before the breach was public improperly downplayed the risks that data breaches posed to the company and its stock price.

Shareholders sued Facebook in 2018 after they learned that Cambridge Analytica had obtained the personal data of 30 million Facebook users. The shareholders conted that … Read the rest

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The morning read for Tuesday, Nov. 5

The court is still in session on Election Day with oral arguments this morning in Advocate Christ Medical Center v. Becerra and E.M.D. Sales v. Carrera. Security has been increased around the building. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

SCOTUS punts on review of standard that helped mentally disabled man avoid death penalty (Ryan Knappenberger & Kelsey Reichmann, Courthouse News Service)
Billions

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