Litigation

This Term, Supreme Court not so Predictable

By Peter Hardin

The tendency of some court-watchers to critique the current Supreme Court as pro-corporation and conservative gets  a challenge in an update on its recent rulings.

A Los Angeles Times article reports:

“The justices have been unanimous, or nearly so, in dealing defeats to employers and to corporations. They have also taken the side of hard-luck plaintiffs who were mistreated by the government.”

Legal experts documented no transformation of the court, but rather its unpredictability.

It “demonstrates the court isn’t reflexively pro-corporate and conservative,” said Washington, D.C. lawyer Thomas Goldstein.

It’s early, too. The court has announced 26 rulings, about one-third of its total expected for the term. Five cases have involved the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; it has won one, and lost four.

Full post as published by The Gavel on March 14, 2011 (boomark / email).