SCOTUS Review: Highlights of the 2020 - 2021 Term

During its 2020-2021 term, the Supreme Court weighed in on several important issues affecting both businesses and individuals, including the scope of executive and agency power, the role of stare decisis and textualism, and the contours of the First Amendment rights to free speech and free exercise. This term was also notable for the new composition of the Court and the accompanying realignment of the Court's ideological center, as well as the national conversation regarding Supreme Court reform. 

This course, presented by Sheila Baynes, Upnit K. Bhatti, Monica Haymond, and Sarah Sloan of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's Supreme Court and Appellate Group, examines the highlights of a significant term and offers insight into the practical consequences of the Court's decisions.

Learning Objectives:

1. Review important Supreme Court decisions of the October 2020-2021 Term

2. Analyze the practical and legal implications of some of the Court's key decisions

3. Examine the Court's decisions for clues about the trajectory of the law and the Court's future functioning