In the U.S. Supreme Court, a case that ends in a deadlock has no precedential value—but it does have consequences. Consider Valerie Hawkins and Janice Patterson.
After an unfavorable decision was affirmed in March by an equally divided Supreme Court, the women, petitioners in Hawkins v. Community Bank of Raymore, now face judgments “somewhere in the neighborhood of $6 million,” their lawyer, John Duggan of Duggan Shadwick Doerr & Kurlbaum, said.
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