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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Kimberly Robinson |Lydia Wheeler
Junior justice takes aim at textualismAccuses justices of favoring rich partiesJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson called textualism “incessantly malleable” and accused her colleagues of giving the perception that the Supreme Court favors moneyed interests over ordinary citizens in one of two pointed dissents issued Friday. In both cases, the court’s junior justice, appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022, was writing only for herself. In Stanley v.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Kimberly Robinson |Lydia Wheeler |Seth Stern
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called textualism “incessantly malleable” and accused her colleagues of giving the perception that the Supreme Court favors moneyed interests over ordinary citizens in two pointed dissents issued Friday. In both cases, the court’s junior justice, appointed by President Joe Biden in 2022, was writing only for herself. In Stanley v.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Lydia Wheeler |Kimberly Robinson
The US Supreme Court decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender affirming care for transgender minors is not a total loss, LGBTQ+ advocates said. The court’s conservative majority applied a more lenient test to scrutinize the law, which it said carved out people based on age and medical use, rather than their transgender status. In doing so, the decision left open the possibility that other laws might require a tougher analysis when challenged for discriminating against transgender people.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Lydia Wheeler |Kimberly Robinson
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reported making over $2 million off her memoir last year, according to her financial disclosure released Tuesday. The extra income is in addition to the $893,750 advance she reported earning in 2023 for “Lovely One,” which Penguin Random House published in September. As an associate justice, Jackson received a salary of $298,500 in 2024, according to the Federal Judicial Center.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Lydia Wheeler |Kimberly Robinson
Court has 21 argued cases left to decide Software malfunction causes early alertsThe Supreme Court is chipping away at the mound of argued cases it has to decide before the justices break for summer. Listen here and subscribe to Cases and Controversies on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Megaphone, or Audible. The court has 21 cases left after releasing its latest batch of opinions.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Lydia Wheeler |Kimberly Robinson
Court upheld rules for ghost gunsJustices narrowly rule for gun manufacturersBoth sides of the gun debate agree that the Supreme Court’s actions this term were a mixed bag, but gun control advocates are claiming a small victory. The justices upheld federal regulations for build at-home ghost gun kits, refused to give gun manufacturers broad immunity from civil suits, and turned away constitutional challenges to state bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Kimberly Robinson |Lydia Wheeler |Seth Stern
Both sides of the gun debate agree that the Supreme Court’s actions this term were a mixed bag, but gun control advocates are claiming a small victory. The justices upheld federal regulations for build at-home ghost gun kits, refused to give gun manufacturers broad immunity from civil suits, and turned away constitutional challenges to state bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Kimberly Robinson |Lydia Wheeler
Justices think they shouldn’t have taken casePattern emerges in class actions this termThe US Supreme Court agreed to hear several cases corporate America brought seeking to rein in class actions this term only to later say they shouldn’t have taken the appeals. In an unsigned opinion on Thursday, the justices “dismissed as improvidently granted” Labcorp’s bid to limit who can join a class action that accuses the health-care company of discriminating against blind people.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Lydia Wheeler |Jacqueline Thomsen
President Donald Trump’s anger at the courts is extending to judges he nominated even as his policies fare better among his appointees. At least nine rulings in Trump’s favor have come from judges he appointed during his first term, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis. No other cohort of judges appointed by another president has issued this many decisions that cut Trump’s way, even as challengers to the administration tend to file in federal courts with more Democratic appointees.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Ryan Autullo |Jacqueline Thomsen |Lydia Wheeler
Two weeks before he was hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit, former Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone was in a Dallas conference room with some of the state’s brightest legal minds interviewing candidates to become federal judges.
