SCOTUS Plays Inside Baseball With Business This Term

The U.S. Supreme Court will be playing “inside baseball” on its business docket when it returns Oct. 3, a Supreme Court advocate told Bloomberg BNA.

The high court vacancy has caused the justices to take a “wait-and-see” approach in cases that are ideologically divisive, meaning that they aren’t agreeing to hear many cases where they might split 4–4, Public Citizen Litigation Group’s Scott L. Nelson, Washington, told Bloomberg BNA Sept. 14.

Cases that affect businesses often fall into this category of ideologically divisive cases, Nelson, whose practice at the Supreme Court includes consumer law and class actions, said.

But the Supreme ...