Legal News

The morning read for Tuesday, Feb. 20

The justices will hear oral argument this morning in Corner Post v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St., LLC. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other n

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Justices decline to intervene in another dispute over race and school admissions

Less than a year after its decision striking down the admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina as unconstitutional on the ground that they explicitly considered an applicant’s race as part of their admissions process, the Suprem

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Court to hear argument in appeals to halt “Good Neighbor” ozone regulation

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in a group of challenges to ozone regulation that came to the justices on their so-called “shadow docket” – that is, as emergency appeals. Three states, along with several companies and trade associa

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Justices debate arbitration exemption for transportation workers

As I explain in my preview, the question in Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St. is whether the workers here – truck drivers for the company that makes Wonder Bread – count as transportation workers exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act. The key lang

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