As President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans line up votes to confirm a replacement for the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, weighty cases in the Supreme Court’s fall term are approaching fast.
While a potential confirmation battle looms on Capitol Hill, here are some of the upcoming cases, apart from the Obamacare case, that could have financial implications.This case delves into the interplay of state and federal laws when it comes to a health plan’s prescription costs. Pharmacy benefit managers are companies that employers turn to for help managing their health plan’s prescription benefits, court papers note.
The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, a trade association of pharmacy benefit managers, counters in court filings that Arkansas’ law “undermines efficient, nationally uniform plan administration,” which was something federal law sought to ensure. The case has critical implications on innovation and competitiveness inside the tech industry, according to friend of the court filings. More than 25 years of computer software innovation could be in danger if the court sided with Oracle, according to one brief in support of Google, from the Software Freedom Law Center, a nonprofit organization assisting software developers.
Duguid’s lawyers say Facebook is asking the court “to validate the practice of making robocalls to cell phones over their owners’ objection — a textbook example of the intrusions Congress enacted the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to prohibit.” Already the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the FHFA’s structure is unconstitutional, but the plaintiffs decided to appeal the case to the Supreme Court anyway to give the nation’s highest court final say over the matter.
It's not up in the air at all. A female conservative will be appointed and passed before the election. Votes have already been secured.