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Court conflicted over Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan that shields Sacklers

Justices dismiss “civil rights tester” case

Major OxyContin case headlines December session

Court grants review in federal employee’s filing deadlines case

The morning read for Friday, December 8

The limits of Title VII protection with Madeline Meth

The opioid crisis and bankruptcy law with Carl Cecere

The morning read for Thursday, December 7

Court conflicted over Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan that shields Sacklers

Justices dismiss “civil rights tester” case

Major OxyContin case headlines December session

Court grants review in federal employee’s filing deadlines case

The morning read for Friday, December 8

The limits of Title VII protection with Madeline Meth

The opioid crisis and bankruptcy law with Carl Cecere

The morning read for Thursday, December 7

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By Amy Howe on Dec. 5 at 4:04 p.m.

The government’s argument on Tuesday that a ruling to throw out a contested provision of a 2017 corporate tax reform law could upend the tax code and cost “several trillion dollars” seemed to draw support from most of the justices. Comments from the justices suggested a narrow ruling in Moore v. United States.

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The justices heard oral argument in Moore v. United States on Tuesday. (Thomas Hawk via Flickr)

By Amy Howe on Dec. 4 at 4:42 p.m.

At oral argument on Monday, the justices appeared divided over whether to allow Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy plan to move forward. The case before the court is a dispute over a provision of the plan that would release the Sackler family, the owners of the company, from future civil liability in exchange for payment to creditors and victims of the opioid epidemic.

By Amy Howe on Dec. 5 at 4:08 p.m.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning threw out a dispute over whether a self-appointed “civil rights tester” has a right to sue hotels she does not plan to visit, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, for failing to provide information about accessibility on their websites. The tester had dismissed her lawsuit in lower court.

By Amy Howe on Nov. 22 at 1:58 p.m.

The justices will be back in the courtroom on Nov. 27. The seven cases scheduled for the December session include disputes over federal immigration law, taxation, and the power of administrative agencies. On Dec. 4, the justices will hear one of the highest-profile bankruptcy cases in recent memory, a case which stems from thousands of lawsuits against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma.

Since 2017, the Supreme Court has significantly increased its use of the process by which the justices hear and resolves emergency appeals, sometimes known as the shadow docket. Professor Stephen Vladeck has closely tracked that change in recent years and joins Amy to discuss his new book The Shadow Docket.

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By Amy Howe on Dec 08, 2023 at 4:38 pm

The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon agreed to take up another case exploring the distinction between deadlines that are jurisdictional – so that courts cannot hear a case if they are not met – and those that are instead simply a limitations period that can be waived or extended.

The justices granted review in Harrow v. Department of Defense, the case of a federal government employee who challenged his 2013 furlough. The case was the only grant on a list of orders released from the justices’ private conference earlier on Friday.

By Ellena Erskine on Dec 08, 2023 at 8:31 am

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

Supreme Court justices to discuss whether to hear abortion pill showdown (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
Elon Musk appeals dispute over SEC consent decree to US Supreme Court (John Kruzel, Reuters)
Texas Judge Grants Woman’s Request for Abortion, in Rare Post-Roe Case (J. David Goodman, The New York Times)
Gorsuch and Kavanaugh Fiercely Defended Workers’ Rights. There’s an Ulterior Motive. (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate)
How Would This Supreme Court Rule on Book Banning? (Fabio Bertoni, The New Yorker)

By Amy Howe on Dec 07, 2023 at 12:21 pm

In this video, Nate Mowry interviews Madeline Meth of Boston University School of Law, one of the lawyers representing a police sergeant in her employment discrimination case against the city of St. Louis.

By Amy Howe on Dec 07, 2023 at 12:11 pm

In this installment of our new video series on advocates in merits cases at the court, Nate Mowry interviews Carl Cecere, who represents a group of Canadian municipalities and First Nations in the bankruptcy case Harrington v. Purdue Pharma, in which the justices heard oral argument on Monday.

By Ellena Erskine on Dec 07, 2023 at 8:17 am

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

Supreme Court appears likely to ease process for workplace discrimination claims (Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post)
Supreme Court Leans Toward Police Officer in Job Bias Case (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
From the Boy Scouts to the Catholic Church, an upcoming Supreme Court ruling may mean some victims won’t see their day in court (Samantha Delouya, CNN)
Not just the Supreme Court: Ethics troubles plague state high courts, too (Aaron Mendelson, USA Today)
Justice O’Connor’s Complexities (Steve Vladeck, One First)

December 2022

January 2023

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
1	2 New Year's Day (observed) holidays	3	4	5	6 Conference private_conferences	7
8	9 In re Grand Jury (21-1397) oral_arguments The Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. Federal Labor Relations Authority (21-1454) oral_arguments Orders orders	10 Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters (21-1449) oral_arguments	11 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. (22-96) oral_arguments	12	13 Conference private_conferences	14
15	16 Martin Luther King Jr. Day holidays	17 Santos-Zacaria v. Garland (21-1436) oral_arguments Turkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. United States (21-1450) oral_arguments Orders orders	18 Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools (21-887) oral_arguments	19	20 Conference private_conferences	21
22	23 Orders orders Opinions opinions	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	31

February 2023

March 2023

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
			1 New York v. New Jersey (22O156) oral_arguments	2	3 Conference private_conferences	4
5	6 Orders orders	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17 Conference private_conferences	18
19	20 Orders orders Arizona v. Navajo Nation (21-1484) oral_arguments	21 Opinions opinions Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic Int’l, Inc. (21-1043) oral_arguments Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski (22-105) oral_arguments	22 Jack Daniel’s Properties v. Vip Products (22-148) oral_arguments	23	24 Conference private_conferences	25
26	27 Orders orders Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi (21-757) oral_arguments United States v. Hansen (22-179) oral_arguments	28 Opinions opinions Smith v. United States (21-1576) oral_arguments Lora v. United States (22-49) oral_arguments	29 Samia v. United States (22-196) oral_arguments Polselli v. IRS (21-1599) oral_arguments	30	31 Conference private_conferences

April 2023

May 2023

June 2023

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
				1 Conference private_conferences	2	3
4	5 Orders orders	6	7	8 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	9	10
11	12 Orders orders	13	14	15 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	16 Opinions opinions	17
18	19 Juneteenth holidays	20 Orders orders	21	22 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	23 Opinions opinions	24
25	26 Orders orders	27 Opinions opinions	28	29 Opinions opinions	30 Opinions opinions

July 2023

August 2023

September 2023

October 2023

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
1	2 Pulsifer v. United States (22-340) oral_arguments	3 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited (22-448) oral_arguments	4 Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer (22-429) oral_arguments	5	6 Conference private_conferences	7
8	9 Columbus Day holidays	10 Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC (22-660) oral_arguments Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC (22-500) oral_arguments	11 Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP (22-807) oral_arguments	12	13 Conference private_conferences	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27 Conference private_conferences	28
29	30 Culley v. Marshall (22-585) oral_arguments	31 O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier (22-324) oral_arguments Lindke v. Freed (22-611) oral_arguments

November 2023

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
			1	2	3 Conference private_conferences	4
5	6 Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. Kirtz (22-846) oral_arguments	7 U.S. v. Rahimi (22-915) oral_arguments	8 Rudisill v. McDonough (22-888) oral_arguments	9 Conference private_conferences	10 Veterans Day holidays	11
12	13 Orders orders	14	15	16	17 Conference private_conferences	18
19	20 Orders orders	21	22	23 Thanksgiving Day holidays	24	25
26	27 Brown v. U.S. (22-6389) oral_arguments	28 McElrath v. Georgia (22-721) oral_arguments Wilkinson v. Garland (22-666) oral_arguments	29 Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy (22-859) oral_arguments	30

December 2023

January 2024

February 2024

March 2024

April 2024

2
Conference
private_conferences

5
303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (21-476)
oral_arguments
MOAC Mall Holdings LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC (21-1270)
oral_arguments
Orders
orders

6
United States, ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, Inc. (21-1052)
oral_arguments
Bartenwerfer v. Buckley (21-908)
oral_arguments

7
Moore v. Harper (21-1271)
oral_arguments

9
Conference
private_conferences

12
Orders
orders

26
Christmas Day (observed)
holidays