Waiting In Wings For The Supreme Court: Cases To Watch
From Law.com
Significant challenges that involve abortion, solitary confinement, insider trading and other contentious questions await the justices’ decisions on whether to add them to the new term of the U.S. Supreme Court.
A year ago, conventional wisdom seemed to indicate that the justices would grant review at least to one of seven petitions on same-sex marriage pending on that year’s so-called long conference on the summer influx of cases. But the high court denied review in all seven shortly after the conference.
The denials, however, only meant that those cases were not the right cases at the right time. Nearly four months after the conference, the justices, in the wake of a circuit split, agreed to review same-sex marriage cases from four states.
Conventional wisdom this fall holds that the justices will add an abortion-clinic case to their decision docket and once again take up controversy surrounding the federal Affordable Care Act—this time religious nonprofits’ objections to contraceptive health coverage. The only question is when, court watchers and others said.
“This is a court that doesn’t shy away from tackling big stuff,” said constitutional law scholar Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina School of Law. “Anything that seems to be controversial these days, the court seems ready to take, as long as the plaintiff has standing.”
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From Law.com
Significant challenges that involve abortion, solitary confinement, insider trading and other contentious questions await the justices’ decisions on whether to add them to the new term of the U.S. Supreme Court.
A year ago, conventional wisdom seemed to indicate that the justices would grant review at least to one of seven petitions on same-sex marriage pending on that year’s so-called long conference on the summer influx of cases. But the high court denied review in all seven shortly after the conference.
The denials, however, only meant that those cases were not the right cases at the right time. Nearly four months after the conference, the justices, in the wake of a circuit split, agreed to review same-sex marriage cases from four states.
Conventional wisdom this fall holds that the justices will add an abortion-clinic case to their decision docket and once again take up controversy surrounding the federal Affordable Care Act—this time religious nonprofits’ objections to contraceptive health coverage. The only question is when, court watchers and others said.
“This is a court that doesn’t shy away from tackling big stuff,” said constitutional law scholar Michael Gerhardt of the University of North Carolina School of Law. “Anything that seems to be controversial these days, the court seems ready to take, as long as the plaintiff has standing.”
Read more in our daily News Update...