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Supreme Court rulings dropping at the top of the hour. Getting closer to the end of term.
27 cases left for the term. High-profile decisions tend to come down closer to the end of June. Rulings drop every Monday, with extra days likely to be added as the month progresses.
More than one decision coming today. I'm following the livefeed here: live.scotusblog.com/Event/Live_blo…
Here's a chart of all the cases from this term: Outstanding cases have a white background, major cases listed in red. scotusblog.com/statistics/
Today's first ruling is a unanimous decision clarifying the definition of the term "burglary" for the purposes of federal sentencing rules. supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
Second case addresses whether the federal government is "a person" under the provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act. SCOTUS rules it isn't! supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
(I like to livetweet cases like this sometimes just as a reminder that most of the work of the Court is stuff that's very different from the stuff that most of us are (appropriately) obsessed with.)
Third and final case of the day addresses the circumstances in which state law governs adjudication of claims under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. Another unanimous ruling. supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
Each of today's rulings was a matter of statutory rather than constitutional interpretation—figuring out what disputed terms used in obscure federal laws are supposed to mean.
These kinds of cases can have huge implications for those directly connected to them, and for the particular realms of law in which they apply, but they almost never have much broader constitutional or cultural significance.
Twenty-four cases left, including six that @SCOTUSblog describes as "major." all are likely come down in the next three weeks.
There's Gamble, which is concerned with the question of how and whether Double Jeopardy applies when someone is charged with both a federal and state crime. scotusblog.com/case-files/cas…
American Legion, which is about arguably religious monuments on public property. scotusblog.com/case-files/cas…
Rucho and Benisek are the partisan gerrymandering cases. (Not sure why, but @SCOTUSblog doesn't have Bethune-Hill, the racial gerrymandering case, listed as "major" on its chart.) scotusblog.com/case-files/cas…
Kisor is a case that turns on the question of when and whether federal agencies' interpretations of regulations that pertain to them deserve deference from the courts. scotusblog.com/2019/03/argume…
And Commerce is the census citizenship question case. scotusblog.com/case-files/cas…
Double jeopardy, public monuments, partisan gerrymandering, racial gerrymandering, agency deference, and the census citizenship question. Those and seventeen others are coming down this month.
As we get close to the end of the term, SCOTUS tends to add decision days, but they've announced that there won't be any more this week. Next decisions come down next Monday at 10AM.
