Bloomberg Law
Jan. 5, 2018, 8:34 PM

Week Ahead at SCOTUS: A Record Breaking Term

Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson

The U.S. Supreme Court kicks off 2018 with a busy week consisting of noteworthy oral arguments, significant petitions, and … no opinions, again.

What Are You Waiting For: The news that the court won’t issue any additional opinions means that the court is set to break a nearly 150-year-old record—for being slow.


  • The court has only issuedone opinionin an argued case so far this term.


  • That’s the slowest pace the court has released opinions since the 1800s, according to Adam Feldman ofEmpirical SCOTUS. In fact, “the last time the Court released its second orally argued ...





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