The Supreme Court’s business docket for fall reads like a tort reformer’s playbook; it includes cases on excess punitive damages and class action litigation that could turn the upcoming months into a landmark term. But the tort cases are leavened with intellectual property suits that will bring other books into play, ranging from Charlotte’s Web and The Cat in the Hat to the Victoria’s Secret catalog.
In short, the Court’s business agenda is the kind of mix that former Solicitor General Kenneth Starr forecast several years ago when he complained about the excessive influence of law clerks: Cases the Court must hear, plus a handful of more titillating issues that the clerks, recently out of law school, cannot resist.
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