• Updated July 31, 2024
Justice Kagan makes remarks to the 9th Circuit and President Biden proposes SCOTUS reforms. The usual slow-moving summer legal news drag is disrupted by a number interesting cases and eye-raising comments.
On the docket:
—To stand or not to stand at a desk
—Justice Kagan says Supreme Court reforms are “fair”
—The Supreme Court’s caseload
—Are justices friendly?
—President Biden’s proposed reforms
—Leonard Leo says “Dems are destroying a court they don’t agree with”
—Removing Chevron deference
—Title IX cases launch across the U.S.
—Taxes on our phone bills
—PETA wins one for the gatos
—Boneless chicken wings: dangerous or harmless wordplay?
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