Until recently the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Roberts has had a reputation of being friendly to business, but in two decisions delivered today the court continues a recent trend of rulings less favorable to business.
In the first opinion, authored by Justice Sotomayor, a unanimous Court said that stockholders could sue the makers of Zicam nasal spray.
And in a 6-2 opinion ( Justice Kagan took no part ) Justice Breyer wrote that a worker at a plastics factory was protected from retaliatory actions.
Click here for Robert Barnes' WaPo article.
I stuck around to hear/watch arguments in a case, Borough of Duryea v. Guarnieri, concerning the First Amendment's petition clause. Some of the historical precedent cited reached back as far as Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest. Respondent's lawyer, Eric Schnapper : "If you had a problem in England, if the undersheriff took your cow, you could go to the sheriff, but historically, that wasn't called a petition. If you went to the king, that was a petition,"
Now that's entertainment!
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