“Live-Streamed and Teleconferenced, the Supreme Court Enters the Coronavirus Era; After canceling its scheduled arguments in March and April, the court agreed to hear 10 of those cases remotely over the next two weeks”: Jess Bravin and Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal have this report.
And Todd Ruger of Roll Call reports that “Live and online: Supreme Court breaks new ground this week; Justices will hold oral arguments via telephone for the first time.”
Access today’s Order List of the U.S. Supreme Court: At this link. The Court granted review in two new cases.
“Major Blue Insurer to Get Nearly $2 Billion in ACA Payouts, Report Says; A Supreme Court decision cleared the way for industry to get the money it claimed, but the timing is unclear”: Anna Wilde Mathews of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
“Unexpected outcome in Wisconsin: Tens of thousands of ballots that arrived after Election Day were counted, thanks to court decisions.” Amy Gardner, Dan Simmons, and Robert Barnes of The Washington Post have this report.
“Virus Pushes a Staid Supreme Court Into Revolutionary Changes; The court is set to depart from history twice on Monday: The justices will hear arguments by conference call, and the public will be able to listen in.” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.
Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko of The Associated Press have a report headlined “Black robes or bathrobes? Virus alters high court traditions.”
And Pete Williams of NBC News reports that “Supreme Court justices to hear oral arguments in history-making phone call; On the docket are cases involving President Donald Trump’s taxes and the so-called faithless elector.”
“Trump nominee, once a Supreme Court clerk, still unhappy at how Obamacare ruling played out”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has a report that begins, “Judge Justin Walker, now nominated to a powerful federal court dubbed ‘the second highest’ in the nation, remains bitter that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act eight years ago.”
“It’s going to be an unusual May in the Supreme Court”: Law professor Erwin Chemerinsky has this essay online at ABA Journal.
“Phoning it in: Pandemic forces Supreme Court to hear cases in a new way.” Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung of Reuters have this report.
Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News reports that “Supreme Court Bows to the Moment With First Streaming Arguments.”
And Nina Totenberg of NPR has a report headlined “Listen Live: Supreme Court Arguments Begin Monday.”
“A Citizen’s Guide to SCOTUS Live: America’s new reality show begins Monday.” Law professor Garrett Epps has this essay online at The Atlantic.
“9/11 Prisoners May Get Video Chats to Bridge the Coronavirus Divide; With the Sept. 11 hearings delayed, prosecutors and defenders are looking for ways to let lawyers talk with the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay”: Carol Rosenberg of The New York Times has this report.
“Supreme Court ruling not win, loss; it offered clarity”: Maui County Mayor Michael Victorino, who also happens to be former Major League Baseball player Shane Victorino‘s father, has this essay online at The Maui News.
“Wisconsin strip clubs suing for coronavirus relief win preliminary injunction”: Elliot Hughes of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report.
And Joe Kelly of Courthouse News Service reports that “Judge Clears Paycheck Protection Loans for Wisconsin Strip Clubs.”
You can access yesterday’s ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin at this link.
“Wisconsin Supreme Court agrees to review stay-at-home order as coronavirus cases rise”: Gina Barton and Patrick Marley have this front page article in today’s edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Riley Vetterkind of The Wisconsin State Journal reports that “Supreme Court to take up case challenging stay-at-home order.”
And Shawn Johnson of Wisconsin Public Radio reports that “Wisconsin Supreme Court Will Hear GOP Challenge To ‘Safer At Home’; Justices Scheduled Oral Arguments For Tuesday.”
“Why US businesses are opining on a Supreme Court case about contraception”: Ephrat Livni of Quartz has this report.
“The Supreme Court Confronts Trump’s Challenge to the Separation of Powers”: Law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen has this post online at The New Yorker.
“Judge Justin Walker, a deserving nominee to the US Court of Appeals”: Michael R. Davis and David Feder have this essay online at Fox News.
“Supreme Court livestreams are high stakes test for justices, public; Millions will get first opportunity to hear justices working, in real time”: Devin Dwyer of ABC News has this report.
“D.C. judge: U.S. courts’ administrative agency can’t bar employees’ political speech.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post.
“771 lawsuits — and counting: Wave of virus litigation hits businesses across the U.S.” Shayna Jacobs of The Washington Post has this report.
“Opioid Update: Judge Kethledge Reclaims Solitude — and Civil Procedure.” Benjamin Beaton has this post at the “Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog.”
The post contains a link to Sixth Circuit Judge Raymond M. Kethledge‘s recent TEDx Talk at the University of Michigan titled “Reclaim Solitude.”
“At long last, the Supreme Court is going live on air”: Bruce Collins, general counsel for C-SPAN, has this essay online at The Washington Post.
And online at Freedom Forum, Tony Mauro has an interview with Collins titled “C-SPAN and the Supreme Court’s Big Step Toward Live Broadcast of Arguments.”
“The Futility of Originalist Analysis in Second Amendment Cases”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.”
“The Supreme Court Could Cripple America’s Pandemic-Fighting Capacity, Part II”: Simon Lazarus has this guest post at the “Balkinization” blog.
“On nonunanimous jury issue, Supreme Court sends Jace Crehan murder case to appeals court”: Joe Gyan Jr. of The Advocate of Baton Rouge, Louisiana has this report.
“If Adrian Vermeule Didn’t Exist, Would Originalists Have to Invent Him?” Mike Rappaport has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.
“The latest on the national injunction at the Supreme Court; SCOTUS amici versus John Harrison”: Samuel Bray has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.”
“SCOTUS Could Take Up 2 Mass. Gun Laws”: Kimberly Atkins of WBUR in Boston has this report.
“High court poised to set ground rules for next round in quarantine fight”: Online at The Detroit Free Press, columnist Brian Dickerson has an essay that begins, “It’s been six weeks since the seven members of Michigan’s highest court met in the flesh, and so far they have watched the pandemic’s advance the same way most of us have, from the security and isolation of their own kitchens, family rooms and home offices.”
The Guardian (UK) has published additional articles in its ongoing series titled “Trump’s court takeover”: Tom McCarthy has an article headlined “How Trump has tipped the scales in America’s most powerful courts; How three appeals courts are becoming more conservative with the arrival of judges picked by Trump — and what that means for cases on issues like voting rights.”
Victoria Bekiempis has an article headlined “Meet some of Trump’s most conservative judicial picks; The Trump administration has appointed record numbers of judges to the federal courts, and progressive activists say some exemplify a strong conservatism that puts social protections at risk.”
David Smith has an article headlined “Trump is seizing the courts — only a Democratic win in November can stop him; Trump’s transformation of the federal judiciary means the stakes have never been higher in an election than they are for Democrats.”
And Mona Chalabi has an item titled “Datablog: Trump’s courts takeover is male and white; Progress towards more diversity stalled under Trump as some 85% of his picks were white and 76% were men.”
