Four More Decisions Continue Busy SCOTUS Term
Four more decisions came down from the United States Supreme Court, which still leaves quite a few headline-making cases to come.
From SCOTUSBlog:
The court grants a group of states’ request to put the EPA’s “good neighbor plan” on hold in Ohio v. Environmental Protection Agency. The rule was issued to reduce air pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities based on the EPA’s interpretation of a provision of the Clean Air Act, which requires “upwind” states to reduce emissions that affect the air quality in “downwind” states.
The court rules in Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P. that the bankruptcy code does not authorize a multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma, the maker of the highly addictive opioid painkiller OxyContin, that would release members of the Sackler family, which owned the company but did not declare bankruptcy, from any future liability for claims against them.
In SEC v. Jarkesy, the court rules that when the SEC seeks civil penalties against a defendant for securities fraud, the Seventh Amendment entitles the defendant to a jury trial.
The court dismisses Moyle v. United States, allowing doctors in Idaho to continue providing abortions in emergency medical situations.
Which means some big ticket items still remain for the Court to release, starting tomorrow morning, as detailed by Amy Howe:
Just to be clear, we are finished for today. We are now down to six or seven cases remaining (again, depending on whether the court issues one or two opinions for the social media cases) to go, and they are almost all big ones: Relentless and Loper-Bright, the Chevron cases; Corner Post v. Federal Reserve, on the statute of limitations for challenging a federal agency action; the social media cases; Grants Pass v. Johnson, the homelessness case; Fischer v. United States, the Jan. 6 case; and Trump v. US, the presidential immunity case.