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Law360 (April 30, 2020, 7:42 PM EDT) -- This week, the team breaks down new details on the U.S. Supreme Court's unprecedented telephone oral arguments and why they won't be the usual free-for-all court watchers are used to hearing. Plus, a look at the court's big Monday ruling in an Affordable Care Act case and a not-so-big one on the Second Amendment.
Each week on The Term, Law360 Supreme Court reporter Jimmy Hoover in Washington, D.C., and New York-based editor-at-large Natalie Rodriguez cut through a busy docket to focus on the key cases and developments everyone will be talking about.
Up top, Jimmy and Natalie discuss the format of the court's first-ever teleconference oral arguments that will take place next week. The court has said that the justices will take turns asking questions, departing from their normal course of talking over one another to get their points across.
The team also provides an important update on a case involving the Trump administration's "wealth test" for immigrants, otherwise known as the "public charge" rule. The case resurfaced after a group of states and New York City said that implementing the rule in light of COVID-19 would be a disaster.
Next, Natalie and Jimmy dive into the week's rulings, starting off with a decision that could force the government to pay billions of dollars to health insurance companies that suffered losses during the initial years of the Affordable Care Act. They also cover a big Second Amendment case that ended up being anything but when a gun group's challenge was dismissed as moot on Monday.
Finally, the court's ruling on an interesting copyright question triggered an even more interesting vote breakdown by the justices, where they divided not on ideological, but generational, lines.
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