It's Raining Opinions
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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🗓️ 25 June 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The Court is making it rain opinions on us---ten in one week! We got some of the big ones too including the NCAA antitrust case, the "Cussing Cheerleader" case, and a significant property rights case. Your hosts discuss those cases and all the rest, which involve warrantless entry into the home, the Appointments Clause, securities fraud, the standing doctrine, and Alaskan Native Corporations. Because there was so much to cover, your hosts didn't interview anyone this week, but they did not skip trivia. Zack hits GianCarlo with trivia about Justice Steven Breyer's life and career, and GianCarlo hits it out of the park. Can you keep up with our resident Justice Breyer expert?
If you're interested in learning more about this week's cases, you can find two articles about them by GianCarlo here and here.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm John Carlo Conoparo. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Zach Smith. |
| 0:09.0 | 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. |
| 0:21.3 | Welcome back to SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:24.4 | What a week we have had. |
| 0:26.2 | The Supreme Court issue 10 opinions this week, which is a record, at least during my time, |
| 0:31.8 | on the show. |
| 0:32.9 | And we got so many opinions this week that we actually don't have an interview for you this week. |
| 0:39.0 | We wanted to make sure we had plenty of time to discuss all of these opinions, plus a few other things going on at the court. |
| 0:46.9 | But before we dive on in, Justice Thomas and Justice Sonia Sotomayor both had birthdays this week, so we wish them a supremely happy |
| 0:55.1 | birthday. |
| 0:56.2 | All right. |
| 0:56.9 | First up on the opinion front, listen up, sports fans. |
| 1:00.3 | It's NCAA versus Alston. |
| 1:02.9 | It was a unanimous opinion by Justice Gorsuch, where the court upheld an injunction against |
| 1:08.8 | the NCAA that prohibited it from enforcing certain of its rules |
| 1:13.6 | limiting education-related benefits that schools can provide to student athletes. The injunction |
| 1:20.1 | continued to allow the NCAA to enforce its rules regarding limits on the undergraduate |
| 1:25.8 | athletic scholarships and limits on other forms of |
| 1:29.1 | compensation related to a student's athletic performance. The court said that the lower courts |
| 1:34.8 | had correctly applied a rule of reason analysis, which is used in antitrust disputes to the |
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