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The morning read for Friday, Dec. 16

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

Here’s the Friday morning read:

Tech groups ask Supreme Court to rule on hot-button Texas social media law (Brian Fung, CNN)
Student Loan Forgiveness Update: Here’s The Latest Supreme Court Timeline (Adam S. Minsky, Forbes)
Judicial security measure clears U.S. Congress as part of defense bill (Nate Raymond

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The morning read for Wednesday, Dec. 14

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

Here’s the Wednesday morning read:

U.S. Supreme Court to review murder-for-hire conviction (Nate Raymond, Reuters)
Military interests parachute into Supreme Court cases on LGBTQ rights, elections (John Fritze, USA Today)
A notorious Trump judge just fired the first shot against birth control (Ian Millhiser, Vox)
DOJ says

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Court will resume opinion announcements from the bench, but won’t provide live audio

The Supreme Court will resume its pre-pandemic practice of announcing opinions from the bench, the court’s Public Information Office said on Monday afternoon. But although the justices now provide live audio of oral arguments, the opinion announcements will not be livestreamed. Instead, consistent with the court’s pre-pandemic practice, the audio of opinion announcements will not be available until the beginning of the following term.

The resumption of in-person opinion announcements marks another step in the court’s slow return to … Read the rest

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The morning read for Thursday, Dec. 8

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

Here’s the Thursday morning read:

Takeaways from Moore v. Harper, the historic Supreme Court arguments on election rules (Tierney Sneed & Ariane de Vogue, CNN)
A Conservative Theory Too Extreme Even for This Supreme Court (Noah Feldman, Bloomberg)
What Difference Would It Make If the

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Justices probe government’s authority to dismiss False Claims Act lawsuits

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in the case of Dr. Jesse Polansky, a whistleblower who had filed a claim on behalf of the government under the False Claims Act’s qui tam provision. The Department of Justice had initially allowed Polansky to proceed with the lawsuit against a company he accused of causing millions of dollars in false Medicare bills to the government, but after several years of litigation sought to force dismissal of the case. At … Read the rest

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A bungled house sale, a bankrupt couple, and a statutory puzzle involving debts incurred through fraud

The court will hear its second bankruptcy case of the week next Tuesday, with Bartenwerfer v. Buckley following close on the heels of the Monday argument in MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC. The cases could hardly be more different. MOAC Mall Holdings involves the assignment of a shopping-center lease in a large corporate reorganization. Bartenwerfer presents a single impecunious debtor attempting to discharge a debt incurred through the fraud of her husband.

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Justices asked again to consider the consequence of biased jurors

The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the seating of a biased juror can violate the constitutional right to an impartial jury. It has stopped short, however, of holding that the violation is so stark as to constitute a “structural error” requiring automatic reversal under the Sixth Amendment, and state courts … Read the rest

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What mental state is required for making a prohibited “true threat”?

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.

It will be a short installment this week, because at their last conference, the justices disposed of only one relist, and added only one. The court dismissed the appeal in Brooks v. Abbott, involving a Texas state legislative redistricting dispute. Because the court had mandatory appellate jurisdiction over that matter, that likely … Read the rest