Big Cases Scheduled For Scotus Term
The new term of the U.S. Supreme Court crept up on us Monday and started with a bang.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws discrimination in employment on several grounds, such as race and religion and gender, but the Court has not said whether the law applies to gays or transgender people.
This term, in a trio of cases, SCOTUS will deal with the issue specifically. Of course, the court had already ruled in favor of the right of single sex marriage, but as Robert Barnes of the Washington Post wrote last week, half of the states have no specific protection for gays and transgenders on the job. Thus, he quotes a victim of the system, “Married on Sunday, fired on Monday.”
Last term the court heard 74 cases and, as of Monday morning, more than 50 cases had been scheduled for argument this term.
The most talked about is the Louisiana abortion restriction which requires a physician performing the procedure to have admitting privileges in a nearby hospital. The court had nixed a similar Texas law in 2016 with only eight justices, but this term’s June Medical Services v. Gee has a full court, including Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The court will also decide cases such as the Kansas elimination of the insanity defense, the future of DACA and a case about a New Hampshire city ordinance outlawing topless public appearances of women but not of men.
The justices will also take up the first Second Amendment case (New York State Rifle and Pistol Assn. v. New York) in a decade.
On opening day, the court denied cert in a case from Nebraska, Baouch v. Werner Enterprises, Inc., which had been decided in favor of the trucking giant by Judge Laurie Smith Camp and affirmed by the Eighth Circuit in an opinion by Judge Arlen Beam. Werner was represented in SCOTUS by Joe Jones of Omaha’s Fraser Stryker.
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