The NLJ/ Diego M. Radzinschi
By long tradition, the U.S. Supreme Court tries to stay out of the headlines in a presidential election year.
As the court gets ready to open its fall term on Oct. 3, the political tussle that has left it one justice short may make invisibility impossible. But the court’s caseload for the fall is unlikely to make too many front pages—at least through Election Day.
The close to 40 cases that the court has agreed thus far to review this term, an unusually small number, don’t involve many hot-button issues. Still, a number of business disputes, intellectual property cases, redistricting issues and criminal matters will keep the court’s case-hungry bar busy.
“This is a holding-pattern year,” said David Cole of Georgetown University Law Center, soon to be the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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