“Detroit Students Have a Constitutional Right to Literacy, Court Rules; A major ruling in a lawsuit involving the Detroit public schools comes at a time when school shutdowns are expected to affect poor children most adversely”: Dana Goldstein of The New York Times has this report.
My earlier coverage of last Thursday’s Sixth Circuit ruling can be accessed here.
“Businesses Suing Over Covid-19 Shutdowns May Have a Case; States should have to justify which businesses are nonessential”: Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
“Faith, Family, and Judge Justin Walker”: Thomas M. Johnson Jr. has this post at the “Bench Memos” blog of National Review.
“Workplace Misconduct And The Federal Courts”: Today’s new installment of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast features hosts Jaime Santos and law professor Leah Litman and their guests, Deeva Shah (from Law Clerks for Workplace Accountability) and Sejal Singh and Emma Janger (from People’s Parity Project).
“Courts Begin to Consider Guidelines for Reopening”: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued this news release today.
“New York City Thwarts the Second Amendment Revolution; But Brett Kavanaugh is itching to expand the right to bear arms ASAP”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “A historic Second Amendment showdown in the Supreme Court dies with a whimper; Gun rights groups are still likely to win a big Supreme Court victory, but they won’t win it this term.”
“Judges Discover a Constitutional Right to Literacy; An appellate ruling opens the door to more judicial legislating”: The Wall Street Journal has published this editorial.
“I’m the Judge Who Won in Wisconsin. This Principle Is More Important Than Winning. We must get away from a partisan view of the law.” Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice-elect Jill J. Karofsky has this essay online at The New York Times.
“Courtroom access: Legislative efforts to allow cameras in Supreme Court chamber.” Edith Roberts has this post at “SCOTUSblog.”
“Judge Cory Wilson — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.”
Access today’s rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court in argued cases: The Court issued rulings in three argued cases.
1. Justice Sonia Sotomayor delivered the opinion of the Court in Maine Community Health Options v. United States, No. 18-1023. And Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. issued a dissenting opinion. You can access the oral argument via this link.
2. Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. delivered the opinion of the Court in Georgia v. Public Resource.Org, Inc., No. 18-1150. Justice Clarence Thomas issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Alito joined in full and Justice Stephen G. Breyer joined in large measure. And Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Breyer joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.
3. And the Court issued a per curiam decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. City of New York, No. 18-280. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh issued a concurring opinion. And Justice Alito issued a lengthy dissenting opinion, in which Justice Neil M. Gorsuch joined in full and Justice Thomas joined in large measure. You can access the oral argument via this link.
Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court did not grant review in any new cases.