After last week’s focus on the Little Sisters of the Poor and their co-plaintiffs in Zubik v. Burwell, this week seems like a bit of letdown as we return to the ordinary run of Supreme Court cases.
Monday’s cases concern whether a defendant can get attorney’s fees when the EEOC has failed to fulfill its Title VII pre-lawsuit responsibilities and whether the Speedy Trial clause applies to the sentencing phase of criminal prosecutions.
On Tuesday, the Court turns to two questions related to debt collection on behalf of state governments and a question about whether prison inmates are relieved of their obligation to exhaust administrative remedies in special circumstances under the Prison Litigation Reform Act.
And then on Wednesday, the Court considers the scope of Armed Career Criminal Act sentencing enhancements and whether Johnson v. United States applies retroactively, along with an important case about the finality of an administrative determinations.
The Court returns on April 18 with oral argument in United States v. Texas, the case challenging the Obama Administration’s controversial attempt at executive amnesty.