Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court.

I'm John Carlo Conoparo.

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 SCOTUS 101.

The court is back from its winter recess, and so are we.

And you know, G.C., the court really hit the ground running with six oral arguments and opinions this week.

So why don't we dive right in?

All right.

I'll start with orders.

There were a lot of orders this week.

I just wanted to highlight one out of the long list because it will be of great interest to listeners who work or practice in the district courts.

And that case is Kemp v. the United States.

The court took up that case, which will resolve a long, simmering, and much mischief causing

dispute about whether federal rule of civil procedure 60B1, which authorizes relief

from a final judgment based on mistake, encompasses mistakes of law made by the district

court judge.

We also had oral arguments in the vaccine mandate cases last Friday, and now, less than a week

later, opinions. We'll cover those in a moment, but we wanted to quickly summarize the other

oral arguments first. The court, again, as we said, heard several cases. One is whether a state can

recover Medicaid money that it spends on a beneficiary's injuries from tort settlement

money that the beneficiary later recovers from the person who caused the injury.

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