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Friday, August 29, 2025

No Ordinary Opinion Announcement

Gerard N. Magliocca

Next Term, the Supreme Court will rule on the legality of the Administration's tariffs. This will be a market moving event, to say the least. Elsewhere I've pointed out that the usual practice of issuing merits decisions at 10AM without notice will be a disaster for this case. The Court should either give notice of the decision day or do what amounts to the same thing by scheduling the announcement before or after market hours.

The precedent here is the Gold Clause Cases. At a certain point after argument, the Court scheduled an opinion day and announced that those opinions would not be coming out that day. When the next opinion day was scheduled, they made no such announcement. Thus, everyone knew that the decision was coming then. The Court should follow that example or something comparable in this unusual situation.


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