Roberts Fumbles a Handoff; Alito Scores With Dobbs
The chief justice has a miscue during oral arguments, while Alito enjoys praise in a Harvard journal.
April 26, 2023 at 06:45 AM
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Hello, Supreme Court Brief readers. I'd like to thank Avalon Zoppo and Brad Kutner for their warm welcome in Tuesday's edition. I have kept up with these pages for some time, and hope I can do justice to the standard that they have set for high court coverage. The same goes for the legendary Marcia Coyle and Tony Mauro, for whom I interned years ago while starting out in legal journalism.
The court heard just one case on Tuesday, which was the justices' penultimate oral argument of the October 2022 term. It stems from a dispute between two Russian businessmen over an abandoned real estate deal that led to a nearly $90 million arbitration award. The question at the center of it asks whether foreign plaintiffs can sue under the federal RICO statute.
Thanks for reading. If you'd like to get in touch, you can reach me at [email protected]. Follow me on Twitter: @JimmyHooverDC.
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