Welcome to Supreme Court Brief! A lawyer who unsuccessfully defended same-sex marriage bans—John Bursch—will return to the high court lectern Oct. 8 to argue against Title VII workplace protections for transgender employees as part of the Alliance Defending Freedom legal team. Two amicus parties in the new term’s Second Amendment case hope the justices will listen to their corpus linguistics argument that the landmark Heller decision was wrong. And Hogan Lovells partner Cate Stetson tells new 1Ls not to “hyper-focus” on becoming appellate lawyers. Thanks for reading. Contact us at [email protected] and [email protected], and follow us on Twitter at @Tonymauro and @MarciaCoyle.
