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In major immigration case, both sides look to academia to untangle three knotty questions

Justices clear the way for House committee to obtain Trump’s tax returns

Court won’t block execution of Missouri man who says conviction was tainted by racial bias

The morning read for Wednesday, Nov. 23

Cecilia “Cissy” Marshall, widow of Thurgood Marshall, dies at 94

The morning read for Tuesday, Nov. 22

Justices fetch new case on trademark law and parody

The morning read for Monday, Nov. 21

In major immigration case, both sides look to academia to untangle three knotty questions

Justices clear the way for House committee to obtain Trump’s tax returns

Court won’t block execution of Missouri man who says conviction was tainted by racial bias

The morning read for Wednesday, Nov. 23

Cecilia “Cissy” Marshall, widow of Thurgood Marshall, dies at 94

The morning read for Tuesday, Nov. 22

Justices fetch new case on trademark law and parody

The morning read for Monday, Nov. 21

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Starting at 10 a.m. EST, the court will hear oral arguments in Percoco v. United States and Ciminelli v. United States. Tune in for live audio here.

By Amy Howe on Nov. 27 at 2:06 p.m.

In Percoco v. United States, the justices will decide whether an individual who is not a government employee can nonetheless be convicted of accepting a bribe.

man in suit stands behind lectern and points index finger at camera

On Monday, the court will hear two public-corruption cases that arose in New York under former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (seen here speaking in 2016). (Metropolitan Transportation Authority via Wikimedia Commons)

By David Kwok on Nov. 25 at 3:21 p.m.

In Ciminelli v. United States, the court will consider whether a bid-rigging scandal in Buffalo, New York, rises to the level of federal fraud.

By Amanda Frost on Nov. 23 at 1:16 p.m.

Scholarship on immigration law, administrative law, and standing may inform how the justices approach United States v. Texas.

By Amy Howe on Nov. 22 at 3:13 p.m.

In a brief order with no noted dissents, the court rejected the former president’s bid to block the IRS from handing over six years’ of tax records to the Ways and Means Committee..

By Amy Howe on Nov. 23 at 11:46 a.m.

The justices rejected Kevin Johnson’s bid for a stay of his execution, which is scheduled for Nov. 29.

On Dec. 5 the justices will hear oral argument in 303 Creative v. Elenis, a clash between free speech rights and LGBTQ rights. Bloomberg News Supreme Court reporter Greg Stohr joins Amy to explain the case and what to expect at oral argument.

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By SCOTUSblog on Nov 23, 2022 at 9:27 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

Here’s the Wednesday morning read:

Cecilia ‘Cissy’ Marshall, keeper of Thurgood Marshall’s legacy, dies at 94 (Bart Barnes, The Washington Post)
The Stench of Corruption Is Growing Stronger Around the Supreme Court (Elie Mystal, The Nation)
The Real Problem With the Second Alleged Leak at the Court (Dahlia Lithwick, Slate)
The Supreme Court’s New Second Amendment Test Is Off to a Wild Start (Matt Ford, The New Republic)
The Conservative Case Against the Independent State Legislature Doctrine (Paul Rosenzweig, The Bulwark)

By Amy Howe on Nov 23, 2022 at 9:06 am

Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat Marshall, the widow of the late Justice Thurgood Marshall, who was the first Black justice to serve on the Supreme Court, died on Tuesday in Falls Church, Virginia, the court announced. She was 94.

Cissy Marshall was born in Hawaii. After World War II, she moved to New York City, where she took classes in stenography. In 1948, she went to work for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. At the NAACP, she met her future husband, a civil rights lawyer, who won 29 of the 32 civil rights cases he argued before the Supreme Court. Cissy Marshall assisted Thurgood Marshall, whom she married in 1955, on Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark decision prohibiting racial segregation in public schools.

By SCOTUSblog on Nov 22, 2022 at 10:04 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

Here’s the Tuesday morning read:

U.S. Supreme Court rejects challenge to Republican-drawn Texas electoral district (Andrew Chung, Reuters)
The Case for Supreme Court Term Limits Just Got a Lot Better (Jamelle Bouie, The New York Times)
Alito’s Alleged 2014 Leak Fits Right Into the Anti-Abortion Playbook (Mary Ziegler, Slate)
How Panic on the Left Could Spark a Constitutional Crisis (Matthew A. Seligman, POLITICO)
Peeling Layers: The Onion’s Head Writer Dishes on Satire and the World’s Funniest Amicus Brief (Andrew Cohen, Berkeley Law)

By James Romoser on Nov 21, 2022 at 5:49 pm

In a term already packed with intellectual-property fights, the justices now have another one to chew on: a trademark scuffle over a squeaking dog toy.

The court agreed on Monday to hear a dispute between the maker of Jack Daniel’s whiskey and a company that manufacturers dog toys resembling the Tennessee distillery’s iconic bottle.

By SCOTUSblog on Nov 21, 2022 at 9:15 am

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.

Here’s the Monday morning read:

Allegation of Supreme Court Breach Prompts Calls for Inquiry and Ethics Code (Jodi Kantor, The New York Times)
Senior Democratic lawmakers demand answers on alleged Supreme Court leak (Josh Gerstein, POLITICO)
An Influence Scheme, Claims of Another Leak Roil Supreme Court (Marcia Coyle, The National Law Journal)
John Roberts’s Early Supreme Court Agenda: A Study in Disappointment (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
Justices asked to hear dog toy dispute. Will they bite? (Jessica Gresko, Associated Press)

November 2021

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	1 United States v. Texas (21-588) oral_arguments	2 Houston Community College Sys. v. Wilson (20-804) oral_arguments Badgerow v. Walters (20-1143) oral_arguments	3 New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn. v. Bruen (20-843) oral_arguments	4	5 Conference private_conferences	6
7	8 Orders orders FBI v. Fazaga (20-828) oral_arguments Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, L.P. (20-915) oral_arguments	9 United States v. Vaello-Madero (20-303) oral_arguments Ramirez v. Collier (21-5592) oral_arguments	10 Austin v. Reagan National Advertising (20-1029) oral_arguments	11 Veterans Day holidays	12 Conference private_conferences	13
14	15 Orders orders	16	17	18	19 Conference private_conferences	20
21	22 Orders orders Opinions opinions	23	24	25 Thanksgiving Day holidays	26	27
28	29 Becerra v. Empire Health Fund (20-1312) oral_arguments	30 Cummings v. Premier Rehab (20-219) oral_arguments American Hospital Assn. v. Becerra (20-1114) oral_arguments

December 2021

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February 2022

March 2022

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
		1 Marietta Memorial Hospital v. Davita Inc. (20-1641) oral_arguments	2 Egbert v. Boule (21-147) oral_arguments	3 Opinions opinions	4 Conference private_conferences Opinions opinions	5
6	7 today_at_the_court On Monday, the court will issue one or more opinions in argued cases from the current term starting at 10 a.m. Orders orders Opinions opinions	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18 Conference private_conferences	19
20	21 Orders orders Morgan V. Sundance, Inc. (21-328) oral_arguments Berger v. North Carolina State Conf. of NAACP (21-248) oral_arguments	22 Golan v. Saada (20-1034) oral_arguments	23 ZF Automotives US, Inc. V. Luxshare, Ltd. (21-401) oral_arguments	24 today_at_the_court On Thursday, the court will issue one or more opinions in argued cases from the current term starting at 10 a.m. Opinions opinions	25 Conference private_conferences	26
27	28 Orders orders Ledure v. Union Pacific Railroad Co. (20-807) oral_arguments Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon (21-309) oral_arguments	29 Ledure v. Union Pacific Railroad Co. (20-807) oral_arguments Torres v. Texas Dept. of Public Safety (20-603) oral_arguments	30 Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana (20-1573) oral_arguments	31 Opinions opinions

April 2022

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
					1 Conference private_conferences	2
3	4 Orders orders Opinions opinions	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14 Conference private_conferences	15	16
17	18 Orders orders United States v. Washington (21-404) oral_arguments Siegel v. Fitzgerald (21-441) oral_arguments	19 George v. McDonough (21-234) oral_arguments Kemp v. United States (21-5726) oral_arguments	20 Vega v. Tech (21-499) oral_arguments	21 Opinions opinions	22 Conference private_conferences	23
24	25 Orders orders Kennedy v. Bremerton School Dept. (21-418) oral_arguments Nance v. Ward (21-439) oral_arguments	26 Biden v. Texas (21-954) oral_arguments Shoop v. Twyford (21-511) oral_arguments	27 Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta (21-429) oral_arguments	28 Opinions opinions	29 Conference private_conferences	30

May 2022

June 2022

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

July 2022

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October 2022

November 2022

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
		1 Cruz v. Arizona (21-846) oral_arguments	2 Bittner v. United States (21-1195) oral_arguments	3	4 Conference private_conferences	5
6	7 Orders orders Axon Enterprise v. FTC (21-86) oral_arguments SEC v. Cochran (21-1239) oral_arguments	8 Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. (21-1168) oral_arguments Health and Hospital Corp. v. Talevski (21-806) oral_arguments	9 Haaland v. Brackeen (21-376) oral_arguments	10 Conference private_conferences	11 Veterans Day holidays	12
13	14 Orders orders	15	16	17	18 Conference private_conferences	19
20	21 Orders orders	22	23	24 Thanksgiving Day holidays	25	26
27	28 Percoco v. United States (21-1158) oral_arguments Ciminelli v. United States (21-1170) oral_arguments	29 United States v. Texas (22-58) oral_arguments	30 Wilkins v. United States (21-1164) oral_arguments

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	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	18 Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools (21-887) oral_arguments	19	20 Conference private_conferences	21
22	23 Orders orders	24	25	26	27	28
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Cecilia (Cissy) Suyat Marshall, the widow of Thurgood Marshall, died this morning at 94. Here is the court's announcement.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court REJECTS Trump's bid to prevent the House Ways & Means Committee from obtaining his tax returns. No noted dissents.

The brief order may end years of litigation over the committee's efforts to review the tax records of Trump and his businesses.

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JUST IN: Whisky, dog toys... and trademark law.

SCOTUS has agreed to hear a dispute between Jack Daniel's and a company that makes squeaking "Bad Spaniels" dog toys. The case will have implications for the tension between parody & intellectual property. https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/112122zr_e1p3.pdf

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In a quiet Monday morning order list, SCOTUS adds no new cases to its docket. The court will not hear Brooks v. Abbott, a challenge to an alleged racial gerrymander of a state senate district in Texas. Here's the full order list: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/112122zor_7lhn.pdf

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JUST IN: The Biden administration, as expected, asks the Supreme Court to revive Biden's student-loan relief plan. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit blocked the government from implementing the plan; Biden wants SCOTUS to lift that ruling. https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/22A444-2.pdf

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JUST IN: The Supreme Court DENIES Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward's bid to block the Jan. 6 committee from reviewing her phone records. Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissent from the court's brief, unexplained order denying Ward's request.

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NEW: Another fight on the shadow docket over a subpoena seeking information about election interference. Arizona GOP chairwoman Kelli Ward is asking SCOTUS to block the Jan. 6 committee's subpoena for her phone records. Here's Ward's filing: https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/22A350.pdf

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