Good morning and welcome to Supreme Court Brief. The justices are back in conference Friday and on the phone for arguments on April 19. Johnson & Johnson has two stars of the Supreme Court bar on a petition seeking review of a $2 billion-jury award. Plus: As the justices again schedule a look at a Mississippi abortion law, the chief justice’s opinion in last term’s Louisiana abortion ruling continues to stir debate in the lower courts. The high court’s “shadow docket” was back in the news following a midnight order on state pandemic limits of religious gatherings.
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