“Supreme Court to Hear Case That Could Block Democrats’ Plans to Tax the Rich; Ruling on constitutional challenge to 2017 tax could lead to large corporate refunds”: Richard Rubin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
And Tuesday’s edition of that newspaper will contain an editorial titled “A Wealth-Tax Watershed for the Supreme Court; The Justices will hear Moore v. U.S., which asks if ‘income’ under the law can be an unrealized gain.”
“Supreme Court Declines to Hear Closely Watched Case on Charter Schools”: Mark Walsh of Education Week has this report.
“Justices Who Benefited From Affirmative Action May Decide Its Fate; Supreme Court’s Thomas and Sotomayor were aided by such programs and look back on them very differently”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
“The Timing of Alito’s Private Jet Scandal Couldn’t Be More Damning; Cast in light of a recent ruling, the justice’s self-serving duplicity looks even worse”: Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“The Liberal Giant Who Doomed Roe: His work underpins the Dobbs decision; His legacy matters enormously to what’s next for constitutional law.” Caitlin B. Tully has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
“In Isolated Guam, Abortion Is Legal. And Nearly Impossible to Get. The tiny U.S. territory in the western Pacific Ocean is thousands of miles from the nearest state, and has no resident doctors who perform abortions. Court decisions could cut access to pills, the only legal option left.” David W. Chen of The New York Times has this report.
“DC Circ. Judge Tatel To Join Hogan Lovells’ Litigation Practice”: Katie Buehler of Law360 has this report.
And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Jonathan H. Adler has a post titled “Judge Dave Retires from the Bench; The Honorable David B. Sentelle has heard his last case.”
“Coinbase Holds that §16 Appeals Require a Stay; The Supreme Court held that the filing of a §16 appeal from the denial of arbitration requires staying district court proceedings”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog.
“Behind the Scenes of Justice Alito’s Unprecedented Wall Street Journal Pre-buttal: The Journal editorial page accused ProPublica of misleading readers in a story that hadn’t yet been published.” Jesse Eisinger and Stephen Engelberg of ProPublica have this report.
“Conservative Fifth Circuit Is Stumbling at US Supreme Court”: Lydia Wheeler and Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law have this report.
“Why the Supreme Court Really Killed Roe v. Wade: Don’t blame partisan judges. The real problem is ‘movement’ judges.” Law professors Robert L. Tsai and Mary Ziegler have this essay online at Politico Magazine.
“Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has vast power and life tenure. So what’s his problem?” Law professors Leah Litman and Melissa Murray have this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.
And online at MSNBC, columnist Richard W. Painter has an essay titled “I did Alito’s ethics prep for his confirmation hearing. His new excuses are nonsense. Nearly 20 years later, I must ask: What happened?“
“A son died, his parents tried to sue. How U.S. courts protect Big Pharma. Merck’s best-selling asthma medicine, Singulair, has been linked for years to suicides and psychiatric problems, often in children. But lawsuits over the drug are stymied by one of Corporate America’s most effective liability shields: the doctrine of federal preemption.” Dan Levine, Robin Respaut, Kristina Cooke, Mike Spector, and Benjamin Lesser of Reuters have this special report.
“Fighting for trust: The painful journey of the Supreme Court after Dobbs; Threats abounded as the high court faced constant security challenges, a blistering leak investigation and wounding ethics scandals while struggling to find a new balance.” Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report.
Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in two cases.
And in Waleski v. Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, No. 22-914, Justice Clarence Thomas issued a dissent, in which Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett joined, from the denial of certiorari.