10:12
Amy:
I believe that the oral summaries are released much later in the year, which is why there have been requests to have the audio/video released on the same day as health care. Those requests are unlikely to be granted.
10:13
Amy:
Lyle is not in the Courtroom. He is in the pressroom and gets the hard copies of the opinions as they are released and then comes to the phone to talk to me.
10:13
Amy:
Just to clarify — there isn’t video at the Court. People would like for there to be video. There will be no video.
10:14
Amy:
Here comes Lyle to tell us that Justice Breyer is reading from his dissent in Knox. That’s why we have no additional news for you regarding the next opinion.
10:15
Amy:
We don’t know what the next opinion is. We expect another one, which would not be from either Justice Sotomayor or Justice Kagan, because the Court goes in order of reverse seniority and the Knox case was by Justice Alito. So it will be Alito or one of the more senior Justices.
Tom:
The union dues case may be quite significant — there is not only the dissent but a narrower concurring opinion that says that “[t]he majority thus decides, for the very first time, that the First Amendment does require an opt-in system in some circumstances [for union dues]: the levying of a special assessment or dues increase.”
10:16
Amy:
We don’t know how many more we are getting today, just that Lyle has told us that there will be at least one more. And he’s been doing this for over fifty years, so I trust him.
On Twitter it says Breyer is reading. They go in order of least to most senior, so justices more senior thn Breyer should be next? Assuming Twitter person is correct...