Tuesday round-up

EDITH ROBERTS AUG 6, 2019 6:50 AM

Kevin Daley reports at The Daily Caller that “[t]he Supreme Court will confront a range of gun rights cases in the coming months”:  “Matters now pending before the justices include a dispute over New York City’s gun transportation regulations, challenges to permitting laws in Massachusetts and New Jersey, and a lawsuit victims of the Sandy Hook massacre brought against gun giant Remington Arms.” At CNN, Ariane de Vogue reports that “[s]ince issuing landmark opinions in 2008 guaranteeing an individual right to have a gun, and a follow on opinion in 2010, the Supreme Court has largely dodged petitions testing the scope of the holding.”

Briefly:

• At Dorf on Law, Michael Dorf explains why Arizona’s attempt “to sue members of the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma in the US Supreme Court … in the first instance is problematic.”
• At the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (subscription required), Daniel Cotter looks at the court’s recent order in Trump v. Sierra Club allowing the government to spend funds originally allocated to the Pentagon on construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
• At Empirical SCOTUS, Adam Feldman analyzes the Supreme Court’s class-action docket between the 2010 and 2018 terms.

We rely on our readers to send us links for our round-up. If you have or know of a recent (published in the last two or three days) article, post, podcast or op-ed relating to the Supreme Court that you’d like us to consider for inclusion in the round-up, please send it to roundup [at] scotusblog.com. Thank you!

CLICK HERE FOR FULL VERSION OF THIS STORY