Justices to consider standards for special-education discrimination suits

The court will hear oral argument in two cases this morning. The justices will hear A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, a dispute over the standard for awarding damages when a school district fails to provide an adequate education to a child with a disability. And in Soto v. U.S., the court will consider a technical question relating to compensation for veterans.

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:

• Disabled child’s fight for fair treatment could help others – or raise bar for discrimination claims (Maureen Groppe, USA Today)
• The FBI mistakenly raided their Atlanta home. Now the Supreme Court will hear their lawsuit (Sudhin Thanawala & Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press)
• I Wrote the Book on Charter Schools. This Supreme Court Case Could Inadvertently Destroy Them. (Richard D. Kahlenberg, Slate)
• Trump says he’s ‘not defying the Supreme Court’ amid standoff over wrongly deported man (Amanda Friedman, Politico)
• Amy Coney Barrett Recuses Herself as Supreme Court to Hear Religious Charter School Case (Brody Carter, The Christian Broadcasting Network)

Coming up: On Tuesday, April 29, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. Well be live at 9:45 a.m. EDT.

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.

The Supreme Court made short work of two of last week’s first-time relists. The court granted review in United States Postal Service v. Konan to determine whether the Federal Tort Claims Act provision exempting claims arising from “the loss” or “miscarriage” of letters or postal matter extends to claims that the Post Office deliberately refused to deliver mail to an address. But the court denied review of landlord Lebene Konan’s cross-petition claiming that Postal Service employees conspired to deny her civil rights.

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:

• Do weekends count? Not when tolling immigration timelines, U.S. Supreme Court decides in Colorado man’s case (Allison Sherry, CPR News)
• Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow transgender military ban (Lawrence Hurley & Jo Yurcaba, NBC News)
• Supreme Court to Weigh Discrimination Standard for Some Special Education Cases (Mark Walsh, Education Week)
• Oklahoma is asking the Supreme Court to ignore history (Adam Laats, The Atlantic)
• This Supreme Court case could stall the charter school movement (George F. Will, The Washington Post)

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:

• Justices Imply Narrow Fuel Maker Win in Auto Emissions Suit (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson, Bloomberg Law)
• A forthcoming Supreme Court decision could limit agencies’ duty to consider environmental harms (Akielly Hu, Grist)
• Trump administration moved Venezuelan to Texas for possible deportation despite judge’s order (Luc Cohen, Reuters)
• One of the Most Complex Cases of the Supreme Court Term Is Also One of the Most Straightforward (Robyn Nicole Sanders, Slate)
• How (We Think) Emergency Applications Work (Steve Vladeck, One First)

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