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In a historic term, momentum to move the law often came from the five justices to the chief’s right

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The decision was noteworthy not only because it struck down the New York law, which mirrored similar restrictions in California, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, but for its methodology. Instead, the court simply interpreted the two statutes at issue by looking primarily at the statutes’ text and structure.

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