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It’s a crisp morning here as Washington’s famous cherry blossoms are holding on to their leaves and color a good eight days after they reached an unexpectedly early peak bloom. The court has some of the trees right on its grounds, and they will be a backdrop to much expressive activity over today’s lone case — Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, about the agency’s 2016 and 2021 actions easing access to the abortion drug … Read the rest
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Wednesday’s oral argument in Coinbase v. Suski was the court’s second case in February under the Federal Arbitration Act, and by all accounts this one will be a lot easier for them to resolve than Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries. Coinbase is a technical dispute about the “delegation clause” in an arbitration agreement, which “delegates” to the arbitrator not only the job of resolving the dispute between the parties, but also the threshold question whether any particular dispute falls … Read the rest
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The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Dec. 4 in the challenge to the legality of the bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of the highly addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin. The argument in the Purdue Pharma case is one of eight cases scheduled for seven hours of oral argument in the court’s December argument calendar, which was released on Thursday morning.
The justices had indicated in August that the Purdue Pharma case would be slated for argument … Read the rest
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It’s the second week of the new term, with two otherwise garden-variety cases set for argument on Tuesday, but with each having some noteworthy highlights.
Meanwhile, this is the third week of the new season of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s favorite TV show, “Survivor.” She raved about the CBS show during a commencement address to American University’s law school last spring, so much so that when another CBS show, “The Price is Right at Night” had an episode last … Read the rest