SCOTUS CALENDAR FOR MARCH IS UP | NBA Wants A Cut If Sports Betting Legalized | RBG On Tour
January 25, 2018
MARK YO CALENDARS
|Yesterday the Supreme Court released the OT18 calendar for its March sitting which will include nine hours of oral argument over six days. Amy Howe with SCOTUSblog previews the cases that were scheduled to come before the high court.
SHOW ME THE MONEY
|So here’s the deal: if sports gambling gets legalized in the U.S., the NBA wants a cut. The Supreme Court is expected to decide by June whether sports betting will be allowed in all fifty states, and the NBA senior vice president and assistant general counsel said yesterday that betting operators should pay each league 1% of the total bet amount on its games if the SCOTUS decision goes through. In other words, he was channeling Cuba Gooding Jr. yelling, “Show me the money!!”
TOP-ED
|In The Washington Post, Alyssa Rosenberg notes that a new poll from GLAAD shows that for the first time since the survey began in 2014, non-LGBT Americans said they’re less comfortable with their LGBT neighbors. She suggests the poll comes as evidence that although change and progress came quickly on the issue of LBGT rights, it may not be so durable over time. Rosenberg: “This rising discomfort with LGBT Americans comes just eight years after Obama signed a repeal of the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy that kept members of the military closeted and a mere 2½ years after a Supreme Court ruling made marriage equality the law of the land. Gay rights seemed to arrive quickly, but the GLAAD survey results remind us not to become complacent.”
COMING TO A LAW SCHOOL NEAR YOU
|The Supreme Court’s most notorious justice, RUTH BADER GINSBURG, will be on a speaking tour this winter with plans to visit several law schools in the Northeast. Staci Zaretsky with Above The Law gives us the rundown on where RBG will be in the coming weeks — read and see if she’ll be visiting a school near you.
OTHER NEWS
The Supreme Court Has Waded Into The Southwest's Water Wars
Mother Jones“After more than a decade of back-and-forth between New Mexico and Texas, the fight has finally reached the Supreme Court. The first round of oral arguments took place on Jan. 8, with a final decision expected by early spring. For the farmers, the conflict has only heightened their sense of isolation from their own state—and made the costs of poor water management in a hotter and drier West more obvious than ever.”
The Supreme Court's Big Public Sector Union Case Is Really About Free Speech
Reason“While the case could have far-ranging implications for labor policy at all levels of government, it will likely turn on a relatively simple question: Does money equal speech? In a newly published analysis of the arguments in the Janus case, Trey Kovacs, a policy analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, says it does.”