Tuesday is Veteran’s Day, but anticipation of Baskin-Robbins camouflage ice cream hasn’t stopped the Supreme Court from scheduling interesting arguments for this week. On Monday the Court will hear two cases primarily of interest to the business community before turning to more controversial issues.
First up on Monday is T-Mobile South, LLC v. City of Roswell, which is about whether a local government that denies an application for a personal wireless service facility can do so with a written rejection letter that gives no reasons for the denial. No, this case has nothing to do with aliens or UFOs: Respondent City of Roswell is in Georgia, not New Mexico. After that, the Court will hear M&G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett, concerning the standard for how courts construe collective bargaining contracts in Labor Management Relations Act cases.
On Wednesday, the Court will first hear two cases about Alabama’s 2010 legislative redistricting. The Court granted certiorari on questions about whether Alabama’s redistricting plan unconstitutionally classified black voters by race by creating districts in which black voters constituted supermajorities.
Finally, the Court will hear argument in Comptroller of the Treasury of Maryland v. Wynne, a case about whether the Constitution requires states to recognize income earned in other states for tax purposes. The taxpayer in the case is arguing that the Commerce Clause forbids Maryland’s tax scheme, which double-taxes income earned in other states, because it penalizes small businesses and business owners who do business across state lines.
Stay tuned for highlights later this week.