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Posted on 05/22/2025 6:46:42 AM PDT by CFW
The Supreme Court will be releasing Opinions from the October 2024 term at 10:00 a.m. today.
Scotusblog will be liveblogging the Opinion release and we will be following along and trying to make sense of the Court's opinions.
Once released, the Court's Opinion can be read on the Supreme Court's website at SCOTUS Opinions.
All cases from the Court's October and November sittings have been resolved.
There are three cases remaining from the December sitting, one being Skrmetti which is the challenge to Tennessee Senate Bill 1, which prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow "a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex". We may get that Opinion today. There are numerous cases remaining undecided from the January, February, March, and April sittings.
There are also multiple cases pending on the Court's "Emergency Docket". Those are the cases filed against various Trump agencies in response to their implementation of Trump's promised agenda. Those cases can be found at Emergency Docket.
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SCOTUS ping!
One box of opinions today, so likely one or two opinions to be released.
We have the first opinion, and it is Kousisis v. United States.
Issue(s): (1) Whether deception to induce a commercial exchange can constitute mail or wire fraud, even if inflicting economic harm on the alleged victim was not the object of the scheme; (2) whether a sovereign’s statutory, regulatory, or policy interest is a property interest when compliance is a material term of payment for goods or services; and (3) whether all contract rights are “property.”
The opinion is at :
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-909_f2q3.pdf
It is by Justice Barrett and the vote is mostly unanimous on first glance.
This is a case about whether the federal wire fraud laws apply to cases in which the defendant uses deception to enter into a transaction that does not harm the victim financially.
The defendants in this case were government contractors in the Philadelphia area who were convicted on fraud charges after they did not comply with a contract provision intended to promote diversity. They countered that there was no economic harm to the government because there was no scheme to harm the government financially – the government got what it bargained for, which was painting services.
The court upholds the Third Circuit’s decision in the federal government’s favor.
Gorsuch has an opinion concurring in part and in the judgment.
Big news. The court has affirmed the judgement of the Oklahoma Supreme Court in the Oklahoma charter school case.
The vote was 4-4 with Justice Barrett recused.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-394_9p6b.pdf
The Oklahoma Supreme Court found that the state’s approval of a religious public charter school was unlawful and unconstitutional. SCOTUS just upheld that ruling.
This means that the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s ruling against the effort to establish the country’s first religious charter school will remain in place.
I wasn’t expecting this one.
Well, things didn’t go well for Mr. Benjamin Ritchie...
WOULD ALL THESE JUSTICES LIKE TO HAVE BRAIN SURGERY FROM A DEI SURGEON????
Even in this case, with no malum in se only malum prohibitum, they all want the full force of Federal fraud statutes brought to bear. Disgusting.
Have you noticed what a circus the Supreme Court has become since they put four broads on board. Now they’ve got “deadlocked” decisions. Geeez.
WOULD ALL THESE JUSTICES LIKE TO HAVE BRAIN SURGERY FROM A DEI SURGEON????
I think we should give it a try and see how it works.
That’s all the Opinions for today. I think there is another Opinion day already scheduled for next Thursday.
Funding a religious school where attendance is voluntary is not an establishment of religion. Funding a religious school where attendance is mandatory would be.
I WOULD NEVER SIGN SUCH A CONTRACT.
NOT AT ANY PRICE
“Have you noticed what a circus the Supreme Court has become since they put four broads on board. Now they’ve got “deadlocked” decisions. Geeez.”
I think everyone has noticed. I’m a female, but I really don’t think women work well as judges. We have a tendency to think emotionally rather than logically. LOL.
I WOULD NEVER SIGN SUCH A CONTRACT.
NOT AT ANY PRICE
Me neither. Just think. Your company gets a contract to paint buildings for the federal government. You have a crew of hard-working painters that have been with your company for years and they do an excellent job. But, to comply with the contract, or risk severe civil and criminal penalties, you have to fire half of your employees and hire DEI employees that may or may not know how to prep and paint a building.
No thanks!
I’ve got to wonder if Katanji is even legal now that other unknown communists were doing Joe Biden”s (*) President In Name Only, job because he was either napping all day at home or at the beach. I’ll bet some unknown swamp RAT was running the “autopen”.
But we wouldn’t want those freaks in Minnesota to launch a public Muslim school, either.
Its been their habit of releasing the most controversal decisions in late June, so they can QUICKLY HAUL ASS OUT OF TOWN.
Great point. Best to keep religion-focused schools private so we don’t inadvertently empower the brain-washing of our children by our enemies, at OUR expense.
They’ve had deadlocked decisions for a long time.
Good grief.
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