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OPINION ANALYSIS

Court rules for property owner in building fee dispute

at 1:56 p.m.

In a narrow and unanimous opinion on Friday the justices ruled in favor of California homeowner George Sheetz in his challenge to the “traffic impact mitigation fees” he was required to pay to build his home, which he said were unconstitutional. Conditions on building permits should be subject to heightened scrutiny, the court said, even if they were authorized by legislation.

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George Sheetz at his home in El Dorado County, Calif. (Pacific Legal Foundation)

CASE PREVIEW

Jan. 6 defendant asks court to throw out obstruction charge

 at 10: 16 a.m.

The justices will hear Joseph Fischer’s request to throw out a charge that he obstructed an official proceeding when he entered the U.S. Capitol as Congress attempted to certify election results during the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks. Fischer argues that the law used against him, enacted in the wake of the Enron scandal, is only meant to apply to evidence tampering.

SCOTUS NEWS

Court declines to intervene in lawsuit against Black Lives Matter organizer

 at 11:35 a.m.

The justices on Monday declined to take up a dispute over whether DeRay Mckesson, a leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, can be held responsible for a police officer’s injuries when Mckesson caused no direct harm but organized the protest at which the officer was hurt. The court also declined to hear two death penalty cases from Louisiana and Texas.

OPINION ANALYSIS

Justices exempt bakery-truck drivers from arbitration requirement

 at 4:50 p.m.

In Friday’s decision in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., the court unanimously held that drivers of trucks carrying baked goods are exempt from the mandatory arbitration requirement of the Federal Arbitration Act as transportation workers, even though their employers are not in the transportation industry.

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