This year’s SCOTUS term will have a huge impact on the practice of law, new litigation, and the data needed by the existing attorneys to present their cases. For example, the SEC v. Jarkesy decision upends the way the SEC (and potentially several other agencies) enforce their actions. The fall of Chevron with Loper Bright…
Month: June 2024
Moody v. NetChoice, LLC: New Dimensions of First Amendment Jurisprudence
As we all await the decision on Moody v NetChoice, we ran the oral argument and the transcript against our Optimized Legal Audio (OLA) platform to see what it ascertained about the justices’ leanings. The conclusions show possible surprises that appear consistent with our suppositions of votes in other cases yet to be decided. To…
Concurrences Are All the Rage
Concurrences have played an increasingly important role in Supreme Court decision-making over time. They are nothing new though. Looking as far back as 1971’s landmark decision in New York Times v. United States, examining prior restraints on the press, we can see that along with the per curiam opinion, the justices authored six separate concurrences…
Empirical SCOTUS 