The narrow split between liberal and conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices was evident throughout the Court’s most recent term with one prominent exception: business cases.
Unlike the blistering ideological divisions stemming from cases about abortion, pay discrimination against women and the use of race in school assignments, justices often found common ground when ruling on commercial issues such as shareholder rights and antitrust law. Seventy percent of the 30 business-related cases decided by the court over the eight-month term that ended last week produced majority votes of 7-2 or greater.
