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Helping lawyers and professionals follow the U.S. Supreme Court

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What is Dual System Thinking Theory?

Our infographic report explains the theory on decision-making developed by Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, Daniel Kahneman, and his long-time collaborator, Amos Tversky.

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#SCOTUS rules against a DNC challenge to Arizona's voting policies, holding the policies do not violate the Constitution or the Voting Rights Act.

Our infographic here: https://t.co/LUhGzEng49

Opinion here: https://t.co/7BA1qxq8wQ

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Just in: The court will release opinions tomorrow at 10 AM EDT. Five cases remain to be decided. They involve:

- Voting rights.
- Immigration law.
- Rules requiring nonprofits to disclose big donors.
- A natural-gas pipeline in New Jersey.
- A technical doctrine of patent law.

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In a technical patent-law case, the Supreme Court upholds the doctrine of “assignor estoppel” but clarifies its limits. Here's the opinion: https://t.co/soAE5Utwwl.

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U.S. Supreme Court backs pipeline companies in New Jersey land dispute https://t.co/FEottKdcT3

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#SCOTUS rules non-tribal Alaskan natives can receive funding under the 2020 COVID-19 relief act.

Infographic here: https://t.co/y0ZYytZvn8
Opinion here: https://t.co/hhClRmw2AH

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In the court's second ruling of the day, the Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of small oil refineries in a dispute over whether the refineries are eligible for exemptions from a federal program requiring increased use of renewable fuels. https://t.co/oqNgUnZcfo

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SCOTUS rules 5-4 on an appeal from a $40 million verdict that consumers won against the credit-reporting company TransUnion. The opinion says some consumers, but not all, had standing to sue TransUnion. The case now goes back to lower courts.
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Supreme Court rules California law giving union organizers access to workers on the state’s farms violates the rights of the property owners https://t.co/r2M5a9kxy1

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#SCOTUS makes another major constitutional ruling relating to the government's right to access private property for regulatory purposes. California violated the Takings Clause by mandating that farm owners allow union organizers on their property.
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Here is the opinion delivered by Justice Breyer in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.

Justice Thomas dissented. https://t.co/pXIISBNmFZ

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#SCOTUS makes an important #FirstAmendment ruling: A public school did not have the right to regulate a student's off campus speech on Snapchat, even though the speech related to a school activity.

Our infographic report here: https://t.co/igVu2eFgcW

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#SCOTUS makes an important #4thAmendment ruling: Officers can't necessarily escape the warrant requirement when pursuing someone suspected to be in violation of a misdemeanor.

Opinion here: https://t.co/0n59HTKkEa
Our infographic on the case here: https://t.co/9Xd5PjU8OZ

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Check out our infographic report on @NCAA v. Alston!
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Our infographic here: https://t.co/CYMxtjYEzL

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The third and final opinion of the day is in U.S. v. Arthrex. In a fragmented decision, the court holds that the appointment of administrative patent judges violated the Constitution’s appointments clause because they are not “inferior” officers. https://t.co/ZjwWu15kZX

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Just in: The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that some of the NCAA’s restrictions on education-related benefits to student athletes violate federal antitrust laws. While the ruling is narrow, its language has implications that could transform college athletics as we know them.

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Here is the opinion in NCAA v. Alston. Justice Gorsuch delivered the opinion for a unanimous court. Justice Kavanaugh wrote separately to concur. https://t.co/GKlC9G6Q6e

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Here's our infographic report on the case: https://t.co/FpfmzDGm14

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NEW: In a victory for college athletes, SCOTUS unanimously invalidates a portion of the NCAA's "amateurism" rules. The court says the NCAA can no longer bar colleges from providing athletes with education-related benefits such as free laptops or paid post-graduate internships.

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The Supreme Court's first opinion of the day is in Goldman Sachs Group v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System. The case involves evidentiary rules in class-action lawsuits. Here's the opinion: https://t.co/cDz8itsk4X.

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What is standing, you ask?

In light of the #SCOTUS #ACA decision, you may want to see our #infographic report: https://t.co/BanaHSswsR