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Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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4.5 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
It was a very busy week at the Court with six oral arguments, three opinions, and a couple of noteworthy orders. GianCarlo discusses the Court's order striking down a California COVID-19 restriction that discriminated against religious practice and a patent case with facts fit for an episode of Suits. Zack, meanwhile, discusses a case raising that all-important issue of whether and how the lawyers will get paid. Together your hosts explain this week's opinions, which involve life without parole for juvenile murderers, Social Security administrative law judges, and the scope of the Federal Trade Commission's enforcement powers. Zack interviews Judge Robert Luck of the Eleventh Circuit, and GianCarlo grills Zack with trivia about strategically timed SCOTUS retirements.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm John Carlo Conoparo. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Zach Smith. |
| 0:10.2 | 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. |
| 0:22.4 | Welcome to another episode of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:26.1 | Zach, we had a busy week at the court. |
| 0:28.6 | We sure did. |
| 0:29.3 | You're ready to dive right into things? |
| 0:31.1 | Yes, indeed. |
| 0:32.4 | I'll start us off with orders. |
| 0:35.1 | We had an order. |
| 0:36.0 | This was actually, what was it, Zach, two weeks ago, |
| 0:38.6 | end of two weeks ago? About, yeah, that's right. This was Tandon versus Newsom. The Supreme Court |
| 0:44.7 | here delivered yet another rebuke to California Governor Gavin Newsom by granting an injunction |
| 0:50.3 | against one of his COVID-19 orders that discriminated against religious practices. |
| 0:55.9 | The opinion was per curiam, which means we don't know who wrote it, but we do know that the |
| 1:00.8 | majority comprised justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. The Chief Justice and |
| 1:07.1 | the court's liberals would have denied injunctive relief. Governor Newsom's order here |
| 1:11.7 | banned at-home gatherings, including religious gatherings, in Tier 1 counties, and limited them to |
| 1:18.5 | no more than three households in other tiers. Even outdoor gatherings were limited to only |
| 1:23.9 | three households in all tiers. The order discriminated against religious gatherings |
| 1:28.7 | because it treated similar secular activities better by allowing larger gatherings. So, for example, |
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