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Larger March calendar includes high-stakes COVID insurance case

At the Lectern

The Supreme Court yesterday announced it will hear six oral arguments in March, the biggest calendar of the term. With four more calendars after March, the court is now on pace to issue 42 or 43 opinions for the term, a higher pace than previously, but still at an historic low (see here ). 5th 93; see here.) More about the case here.

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Argument analysis: Justices doubt FTC’s authority to compel monetary relief

SCOTUSBlog

Justice Samuel Alito – not the biggest fan of legislative history – read a lengthy statement from David Fitzgerald, who served as a litigation attorney for the FTC during the 1970 and 1980s. It seems that what you’re doing here is using it for something that has already happened.”

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