Justices Added Major Tech Case To Their Docket | What Happens Next If Trump Wins DACA Case
November 18, 2019
BACK TO WORK
|After catching the stomach bug last week, JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG returned to work today wearing one of her lace collars. The justices were on the bench to grant new admissions to the bar, not hear oral arguments for any cases. Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole with CNN note that justices will meet again for a closed door conference on Friday, but the high court won’t take the bench again until December 2.
GIMME GIMME MORE
|Amy Howe with SCOTUSblog notes that justices on Friday granted four new cases for review, (consolidating two of them) for a total of three additional hours of oral arguments for this term. Greg Stohr and Susan Decker with Bloomberg report on one of the new cases, Google v. Oracle — a multibillion-dollar dispute over whether Google improperly used copyrighted programming code owned by Oracle Corp. in the Android operating system. Stohr and Decker write that the case “promises to reshape the U.S. legal protections for software code, particularly the interfaces that let programs and devices communicate with one another.”
ME AGAIN
|Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow with The Washington Post report PRESIDENT TRUMP appealed to the Supreme Court two days in a row last week, both times asking justices to protect his personal and business financial records from disclosure. “Trump’s private lawyers asked CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN G. ROBERTS JR. to put a hold on an appeals court decision that said the House Oversight and Reform Committee was within its rights to subpoena the information from Trump’s longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA.”
THE SAGA CONTINUES
|The “Serial” podcast that swept the nation focused on the case of Adnan Syed and raised doubts over whether he should have been found guilty of killing his high school classmate and ex-girlfriend in 1999. Jordan S. Rubin with Bloomberg reports that Syed’s case will get its moment before the U.S. Supreme Court after appealing justices to take a look at his case. “Syed argues that a Maryland state court ruling against him undermines the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, due to the idiosyncratic way that the court analyzed his trial lawyer’s failure to pursue his alibi…The justices are set to discuss the case for the first time at their private conference on Nov. 22. Four of the nine justices need to agree to hear an appeal.”
WE'RE LIVIN' IN THE FUTURE AND NONE OF THIS HAS HAPPENED YET
|Suzanne Gamboa with NBC News reports on what might happen if the Supreme Court sides with PRESIDENT TRUMP and allows him to end the DACA program. The report notes that if Trump prevails, immediate deportation of Dreamers is highly unlikely. Rather, there would probably a gradual shutdown of the program with the administration running out the clock on the two-year enrollments.