SCOTUSblog: LIVE Announcement of opinions for Monday, June 27, 2022

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They're done with Dobbs, but there are more decisions to deliver.

The blog goes live at 9:30, and the announcements begin at 10:00. Expect over 20,000 listeners online as the SCOTUSbloggers deliver the news.

LIVE

Announcement of orders and opinions for Monday, June 27

By Angie Gou
on Jun 27, 2022 at 12:00 am

On Monday, June 27, we will be live blogging as the court releases orders from the June 23 conference and opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term.

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Recommended Citation: Angie Gou, Announcement of orders and opinions for Monday, June 27, SCOTUSblog (Jun. 27, 2022, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/06/announcement-of-orders-and-opinions-for-monday-june-27/

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[Takket]

1. Great! What other rights do they get to declare we can't have anymore?

[PA Democrat]

2. The right to have the EPA take action against climate change.

Ruling on West Virginia v EPA is expected this week.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. And they're off.

16 minutes ago

Here's the link to today's orders: https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/062722zor_b97d.pdf

Ellena Erskine

13 minutes ago
The Court has declined to take up Coral Ridge Ministries v. SPLC, the case asking them to overrule NYT v. Sullivan.

Amy Howe

14 minutes ago
Justice Thomas dissents from the denial of review.

Amy Howe

13 minutes ago
Thomas writes that he would grant review to revisit the Sullivan "actual malice" standard for defamation. "This case," he writes, "is one of many showing how NYT and its progeny have allowed media organizations and interest groups 'to cast false aspersions on public figures with near impunity."

Amy Howe

15 minutes ago
This was a case in which a Christian non-profit group sued the Southern Poverty Law Center for designating it as an anti-LGBT hate group, and AmazonSmile excluded Coral Ridge from participating in the program based on that designation.

Amy Howe

[Sympthsical]

5. Given Thomas is an originalist

I'm amazed he's unaware of how much worse the media was in the Founders' time. They basically had entire newspapers devoted to calling each other goat fuckers.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. With the order list under our belts, here's a list of the seven as-yet-undecided cases

11 minutes ago
With the order list under our belts, I have time to post my list of the seven as-yet-undecided cases:

Justices enter the last week of June with seven cases to go

Amy Howe

The Supreme Court issued two decisions on Friday, including its landmark decision overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. But the justices still have seven more cases left to release before they leave for their summer recess, involving important issues such as religion, the “major questions” doctrine and whether the Biden administration must... Read More

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Here's the link for the next opinion, Concepcion:

3 minutes ago
Here's the link for the next opinion, Concepcion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1650_3dq3.pdf

Ellena Erskine

3 minutes ago

Sotomayor writes, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch? What weird spellcasting witchery is this?

SCOTUSBlog Groupie

3 minutes ago

Interesting lineup! SOTOMAYOR, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which THOMAS,
BREYER, KAGAN, and GORSUCH, JJ., joined.

Michael H

4 minutes ago

Thomas, Breyer, Kagan and Gorsuch join the majority.

Amy Howe

3 minutes ago

A pro se motion making it all the way to the Supreme Court, wow;

"In 2019, Concepcion filed a pro se motion for a sentence reduction under the First Step Act. He argued that he was serving a sentence for a “covered offense” because §2 of the Fair Sentencing Act “modified” the statutory penalties for his conviction under 21 U. S. C. §841(a)(1). Concepcion contended that retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act lowered his Guidelines range from 262 to 327 months to 188 to 235 months."

Grant Ellis

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. The next opinion is Ruan v. US.

5 minutes ago

We are now down to five decisions left for the term. WV v. EPA, Ruan v. US, Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety, Biden v. Texas, and Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta.

Amy Howe

5 minutes ago

The next opinion is Ruan v. US.

Amy Howe

2 minutes ago

The petitioner in the case is Xiulu Ruan, an Alabama doctor who specialized in pain management. The government contended that Ruan had prescribed medicine outside the standard of care – for example, prescribing opioids when physical therapy or a detox facility would have been more appropriate. Ruan countered that he had always acted in good faith, making individual assessments of what each patient needed.

Amy Howe

Third, and last, #SCOTUS opinion is Ruan: Justice Breyer writes that, under controlled substances act prosecutions, the federal government must show that doctors knew they were acting (or intended to act) in an unauthorized manner https://supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1410_1an2.pdf

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. No EPA or American Axle today

a few seconds ago

I'm surprised that we are still waiting on WV v. EPA. Does anyone have any thoughts / speculation on why we are waiting to the very last on that case?

Marianne