‘Fun Coincidence’ as SCOTUS Hands Lawyer in Courtroom a Victory

A favorite game among court watchers on Supreme Court opinions days is to guess which outstanding cases the justices will hand down.

The often enigmatic Supreme Court notifies the public when it plans to issue opinions, but it doesn’t tell court watchers which opinions it will release—not even the attorneys involved in the case.

Mayer Brown partner Andy Pincus was playing that guessing game Wednesday morning with other lawyers waiting to hear the court’s last oral arguments of the term. He speculated that the court might issue one of his cases, one that was still outstanding from October.

Pincus made ...