Good morning and welcome to Supreme Court Brief. The justices wrap up the first week of the April argument session with an appellate procedural issue over costs. Plus: The first woman to sit with the justices was not Sandra Day O’Connor, but the court’s first female page. Scroll down for the exclusive inside story on how the court ended an impasse between two lawyers who wanted to argue Monday’s dispute over pandemic funds for Indian tribes.

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