Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court.

I'm John Carlo Canoparo.

I'm Zach Smith.

And welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government.

Welcome back to another episode of SCOTUS 101.

I know we said last week would likely be our last episode before our Christmas break,

but the Supreme Court had other ideas.

They sure did.

In fact, the court issued a couple of highly anticipated decisions about Texas's SB8 bill

and also grants in several new cases.

Since there haven't been any new oral arguments since our last episode, let's jump right

into new grants. The justices agreed to hear seven new cases and consolidated two of them

for briefing an argument. There's Golan v. Sata, which involves an issue about when a child has to be

returned to his or her home country when that child is involved in an international child

custody dispute. There's Southwest Airlines Company v. Saxon, where the court will decide

whether workers who load or unload goods from vehicles that travel in interstate commerce,

but who themselves do not

physically transport those goods, are interstate, quote, transportation workers exempt from

the Federal Arbitration Act.

Next are the two consolidated cases, which are ZF Automotive U.S. v. Luxhare Limited,

and Alex Partners v. Fund for Protection of Investors' Rights.

As Amy Howe over at Skodasblog pointed out, the issues in these two cases are essentially the same as the issue in the Sertronics v. Rolls-Royce case that the justices had agreed to hear earlier this year.

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