Supreme Court opinion(s) at 10 a.m.! Who's excited?!
The first decision (there will be more) is a victory for @deepakguptalaw—and justice—in an important personal jurisdiction case, Ford Motor v. Montana. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Here is the breakdown. Gorsuch, Thomas, and maybe Alito want to blow up International Shoe, the lodestar of personal jurisdiction jurisprudence, though it's not clear to me that he has a viable replacement. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf… 
The second and final opinion of the day in Torres v. Madrid is an excellent 5–3 decision holding that police who shoot a suspect with intent to restrain him have committed a seizure under the Fourth Amendment even if the suspect escapes. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Gorsuch, joined by Thomas and Alito in dissent, writes that law enforcement has NOT committed a Fourth Amendment seizure when they shoot a fleeing suspect who manages to escape, which is an atrocious view and I'm glad he lost. Here's the breakdown. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Note: The five-justice majority opinions in both of today's decisions were joined by Roberts, Kavanaugh, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan.
Looks like we have a new coalition?!
(Barrett did not participate because the cases were argued before she joined the court.)
Looks like we have a new coalition?!
(Barrett did not participate because the cases were argued before she joined the court.)
John Roberts writes excellent intros supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
I was once paging through Justice Brennan's files at the Library of Congress and found an interesting series of drafts of Texas v. Johnson, the flag-burning decision, in which he debated whether to reveal the holding in his intro. He ultimately did. supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/…
I think that was the right call. Some justices like to keep readers in suspense by posing the question presented in the intro but withholding the court's answer until later on. But I like Roberts' style of "question/answer" upfront, even if it lacks drama.
https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1375090902016925703?s=20
Roberts brings that juicy historical trivia you didn't know you needed. Where's the Netflix series about Isabel
Holcroft, Countess of Rutland?!
Holcroft, Countess of Rutland?!
From Gorsuch's dissent—it's pretty funny to see the Supreme Court's chief advocate of nondelegation doctrine write these words. slate.com/news-and-polit…
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