High Court Emergency Docket Hangs Over California Rail Suit

A lawsuit seeking to preserve California’s federal funding for a high-speed rail project prompted debate over the significance of two US Supreme Court emergency docket rulings, leaving the judge to mull whether the rulings resolve the case.

Deputy Attorney General Sharon O’Grady, arguing for California, said the justices’ orders in Department of Education v. California and National Institutes of Health v. American Public Health Association —that concern when a dispute should be heard in the Court of Federal Claims rather than district court—shouldn’t control this case because the rulings involved cases at the preliminary injunction stage, rather than a motion ...