Are there any hot-button Supreme Court decisions coming this final week before recess?

[Polybius]

Most of the decisions coming lately have been pretty mild and unconfrontational, many of which were unanimous. One exception was Obamacare being saved. Any others?

[dsc]

1. There is a potentially huge VRA case coming

and I think a gun case as well.

[Polybius]

2. The gun case that I know of is next term

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/990846329/supreme-court-to-take-up-first-major-gun-rights-case-in-more-than-a-decade

Is the VRA case this term?

[Poiuyt]

3. What does VRA mean?

[Polybius]

4. Voting Rights Act

Had to look it up myself.

[Poiuyt]

10. Thanks!

[Hortensis]

5. Not a huge one, but SCOTUS just ruled narrowly for NCAA athletes.

Unanimous decision, "narrow but potentially transformative."

The NCAA "seeks immunity from the normal operation of the antitrust laws," Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the court. But he added the court declines this request because "this suit involves admitted horizontal price fixing in a market where the defendants exercise monopoly control."

This is from Scum Kavanaugh's concurrent opinion that refutes various justifications the NCAA argued in plain terms.

"The NCAA's business model would be flatly illegal in almost any other industry in America," he wrote.

"All of the restaurants in a region cannot come together to cut cooks' wages on the theory that 'customers prefer' to eat food from low-paid cooks.

Law firms cannot conspire to cabin lawyers' salaries in the name of providing legal services out of a 'love of the law.'

Hospitals cannot agree to cap nurses' income in order to create a 'purer' form of helping the sick.

News organizations cannot join forces to curtail pay to reporters to preserve a 'tradition' of public-minded journalism.

Movie studios cannot collude to slash benefits to camera crews to kindle a 'spirit of amateurism' in Hollywood.

Price-fixing labor is price-fixing labor. And price-fixing labor is ordinarily a textbook antitrust problem because it extinguishes the free market in which individuals can otherwise obtain fair compensation for their work."

[Polybius]

6. Thanks, but I saw that one this morning

I'm mostly interested in divided rulings that will attract 100 comments. I'm trying to figure out the remaining cases. The term ends the end of June.

[Hortensis]

8. Okay. I'll be watching for the OP.

[NYC Liberal]

7. Two that I'm aware of that should be coming:

Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee

At issue are bans imposed by Arizona on so-called “ballot harvesting” (third-party collection of sealed mail ballots) and on counting votes cast in the wrong precinct. But the stakes could be bigger if the Court’s conservative majority chooses to raise the bar for challenges to voter-suppression practices under Section Two of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to more or less require a showing of racist intent as well as racist results.

Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.

Many schools and educators, supported by President Joe Biden’s administration, have argued that ending their authority over students at the schoolhouse gates could make it harder to curb bullying, racism, cheating, and invasions of privacy — all frequently occurring online.

The American Civil Liberties Union, representing Levy, has argued that students need protection from censorship and monitoring of their beliefs.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/the-biggest-supreme-court-decisions-coming-this-term.html

[Polybius]

9. To answer my own post, here's another from today:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142759133