Today in Supreme Court History: January 13, 2014

1/13/2014: NLRB v. Noel Canning argued.

Comments

[Jeff Walden]

Man, five years already? Crazy. I went to four of the six arguments that week -- this one, EBIA v. Arkison (bankruptcy), Marvin Brandt v. United States (railroad law and whether abandoned railways were easements that reverted to the owner), and McCullen v. Coakley (sidewalk protests outside abortion clinics). Great week of cases. Strange term overall, tho -- they ended up unanimous in something like 60%+ of the cases, but some of that "unanimity" was in outcome only, with significant disagreement among concurrences (including in Noel Canning).

[Jeff Walden]

*six years

[Jeff Walden]

Also Scalia read his concurrence (!) from the bench in Noel Canning, and given the theoretical hash of things that was Breyer's opinion, I was entirely unsurprised and quite gratified to see it.