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mahatmakanejeeves

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Fri Jun 14, 2024, 09:12 AM Jun 2024

SCOTUSblog: Announcement of opinions for Friday, June 14

Last edited Fri Jun 14, 2024, 10:13 AM - Edit history (4)

Hat tip, {redacted}. Also check:

Thu Jun 13, 2024: SCROTUS to issue more decisions tomorrow.

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Announcement of opinions for Friday, June 14

By SCOTUSblog
on Jun 14, 2024 at 5:51 am



On Friday, June 14, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term.

Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements.

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Amy Howe
Mod
9:49 AM

Looking at some of the opinions left, we are now waiting on just one opinion from November: US v. Rahimi, the gun rights case.

Amy Howe
Mod
9:50 AM

There are three big cases left from December: SEC v. Jarkesy, Moore v. US, and Harrington v. Purdue Pharma.

Amy HoweMod replied Russ Bleemer
9:56 AM

No order on yesterday's conference: Are we expecting later today or will it be Monday 9:30? Or do we have no idea yet? Thanks.
We will get orders from yesterday's conference on Monday at 9:30 am. And so far the court has announced opinions next week on Thursday, although I would expect them to add at least one more day (Friday?) next week. As I mentioned yesterday, it won't be Wednesday, because Wednesday is a federal holiday.

Amy Howe
Mod
10:01 AM

We have the first opinion. It is Office of the US Trustee v. JohnQ Hammons Fall 2006. It is by Justice Jackson.
The 10th Circuit is reversed.

Ellena Erskine
Mod
10:02 AM

Here's the first opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-1238_i426.pdf

{snip}

Amy Howe
Mod
10:07 AM

{snip}

We have the third and final ruling of the day, in Garland v. Cargill, the bumpstock case. It is by Justice Thomas, and the vote is 6-3. Sotomayor dissents, joined by Kagan and Jackson.

Nina Howe-Goldstein
Mod
10:09 AM

Bump stocks opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-976_e29g.pdf

Amy Howe
Mod
10:09 AM

The question in this case is whether a bumpstock (an accessory for a semi-automatic rifle that allows the shooter to rapidly reengage the trigger to fire very quickly) converts the rifle into a machinegun. The court holds that it does not.

This is *not* a Second Amendment case, but instead a statutory interpretation case -- whether a bumpstock meets the statutory definition of a machinegun. The ATF in 2018 issued a rule, contrary to its earlier guidance that bumpstocks did not qualify as machineguns, defining bumpstocks as machineguns and ordering owners of bumpstocks to destroy them or turn them over to the ATF within 90 days.
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SCOTUSblog: Announcement of opinions for Friday, June 14 (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 OP
I loathe the way this is done Johnny2X2X Jun 2024 #1
How would you have it done? onenote Jun 2024 #2

Johnny2X2X

(21,417 posts)
1. I loathe the way this is done
Fri Jun 14, 2024, 09:34 AM
Jun 2024

I realize this is the way it's been occurring for a long time. But the way these are released just stinks of royalty making decrees that affect the lives of their lowly subjects. And I am sure the justices get off on it, that they don't tell people when to expect things, they just hold them out and drop them whenever they feel like it. Just contributes to the narrative that the justices are our rulers and have absolute power and we'll get the decisions that effect all of our lives whenever they see fit. Like we're children and tghey're our parents.

onenote

(44,202 posts)
2. How would you have it done?
Fri Jun 14, 2024, 09:39 AM
Jun 2024

It's not just the Supreme Court that doesn't announce in advance when an opinion is going to be released.

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