Court allows lawsuits by U.S. victims of overseas terrorist attacks to move forward

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

• Supreme Court ruling scrambles battle for transgender care (Brooke Migdon, The Hill)
• Supreme Court Predictions (Ed Whelan, National Review)
• Court blocks Louisiana law requiring schools to post Ten Commandments in classrooms (The Associated Press, NPR)
• Why Is Elena Kagan Suddenly Siding With the Conservatives? (Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)
• Killing Us Softly With Its Words; Maybe a little understatement from the Supreme Court is OK (Reynolds Holding, Better Judgment)

Coming up: On Thursday, June 26, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT that day for the opinion(s).

On Friday, June 20, the Supreme Court also released the following opinions:

— In Esteras v. United States, the justices considered whether courts weighing a revocation of supervised release should address certain sentencing factors, such as retribution, that are not listed in the law concerning supervised release but that are part of the law governing sentencing. 

We’re expecting one or more opinions from the court at 10 a.m. EDT. Join us for the live blog, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

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

• Potential 2028 Dems quiet after Supreme Court upholds ban on care for some transgender minors (Sarah D. Wire, USA Today)
• A Legal Gamble (Adam B. Kushner, The New York Times)
• With transgender care ruling, Chief Justice Roberts tries to avoid extremes (Joan Biskupic, CNN)
• Amy Coney Barrett’s surprise Supreme Court move (Khaleda Rahman, Newsweek)
• Supreme Court’s Clean Air Ruling Poses Enforcement Divide Risk (Taylor Mills, Bloomberg Law)

Coming up: On Thursday, June 26, the court expects to issue one or more opinions from the current term. We’ll be live at 9:30 a.m. EDT that day for the opinion(s).

On Friday, June 20, we were live as the court released opinions in FDA v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co., Esteras v. United States, McLaughlin Chiropractic Associates, Inc. v. McKesson Corp., Diamond Alternative Energy, LLC v. EPA, Stanley v. City of Stanford, and Fuld v. Palestine Liberation Organization. 

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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 end of the Supreme Court’s term is in sight – the court is down to its last undecided merits cases and its last regularly scheduled conference will be held next week. While there is usually one impromptu mop-up conference after that to resolve all the unfinished cert-stage business, we’re close to the end. And the court is doing its part by clearing out all the unresolved relists before the term draws to a close. This week, the court cleared out two returning relists by granting review for next term. We had eight-time relist First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v. Platkin, previewed here, involving whether a group of faith-based pregnancy centers can go to federal court to resolve their claim that their First Amendment rights were chilled by a state’s civil investigative demand into their fundraising practices, or rather if they must address their claim through ongoing state proceedings. I suspect that one of the justices was writing an opinion dissenting from denial of cert and it was persuasive enough to dislodge enough votes to grant review. And the court also granted review in two-time relist Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, previewed here, addressing whether state-court suits Louisiana parishes brought against oil companies for coastal restoration belong in federal court because some of the damage from oil exploration was done at the request of federal officials during World War II. With those cases cleared out, now just two returning relists remain.