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The Supreme Court on Monday morning added one new case to its docket for the 2026-27 term. The justices will hear arguments sometime in the fall on whether employees can bring lawsuits for sex discrimination under a federal law that applies to schools that receive federal funding.<\/p>\n

Read more Rethinking a Supreme Court principle used to undermine the Voting Rights Act<\/a><\/p>\n

Over a brief dissent by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court also sent a pair of cases involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act back to the lower courts for another look. And it turned down a group of cases challenging a government program that requires the Health and Human Services Secretary to negotiate Medicare drug prices.<\/p>\n

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In a released on Monday from the justices\u2019 May 14 conference, the court granted review in Crowther v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia<\/em>. The case began as a pair of lawsuits filed by an art professor and a women\u2019s basketball coach at two public universities in Georgia, both alleging that they had been the victim of sex discrimination.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit threw out their claims. In an opinion by Chief Judge William Pryor, that court concluded that employees cannot bring lawsuits under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars sex discrimination by schools that receive federal funding. Pryor pointed to the text of the statute, which provides that \u201c[n]o person \u2026 shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.\u201d \u201c[N]othing about that language,\u201d Pryor wrote, \u201cindicates congressional intent to provide a private right of action to employees of educational institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The employees appealed to the Supreme Court, which asked the Trump administration to weigh in. In a filed on April 9, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer agreed that the court should take up the case. He sided with the university that the court of appeals\u2019 decision was correct, but he contended that because the lower courts are divided on this question, the justices should nonetheless grant the employees\u2019 petition for review.<\/p>\n

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The court sent two cases, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Howe<\/em> and State Board of Election Commissioners v. Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP<\/em>, back to the lower courts for them to reconsider their earlier rulings in light of the Supreme Court\u2019s April 29 decision in Louisiana v. Callais<\/em>, in which the justices \u2013 by a vote of 6-3 \u2013 substantially narrowed the reach of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in voting.<\/p>\n

Read more A docket in the shadow of bigger problems<\/a><\/p>\n

Jackson dissented from the court\u2019s orders in both cases. She indicated that she would have left the lower court\u2019s ruling in the Mississippi case in place, and reversed the decision in the Native Americans\u2019 case, based on the Supreme Court\u2019s 1996 decision in . In that case, to support its conclusion that private plaintiffs could bring a claim under Section 10 of the VRA, which prohibits poll taxes and gives the attorney general the power to bring lawsuits to implement the ban, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that \u201c[a]lthough \u00a7 2 \u2026 provides no right to sue on its face, \u2018the existence of the private right of action under Section 2 \u2026 has been clearly intended by Congress since 1965.\u2019\u201d In her dissents, Jackson wrote that the cases \u201cpresent[] only the question of Section 2\u2019s private enforceability, which our decision in Louisiana v. Callais<\/em> \u2026 did not address.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The court asked the Trump administration for its views on The GEO Group v. Nwauzor<\/em>, a case brought by immigration detainees and the state of Washington, who argue that a private prison contractor violated the state\u2019s minimum-wage law by paying detainees only $1 per day for their work at an ICE facility there. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit allowed the lawsuit to go forward. The GEO Group then came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to decide whether, under the Constitution\u2019s supremacy clause, Washington can reclassify the detainees as employees who are subject to the minimum-wage law. There is no deadline for the solicitor general to file his brief.<\/p>\n

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The court also turned\u00a0down\u00a0cases filed by drug companies challenging the Drug Price Negotiation Program, a 2022 program that instructs the HHS secretary to negotiate prices with drug manufacturers. The companies argued (among other things) that the law violates the nondelegation doctrine, which generally bars Congress from outsourcing its legislative powers to other branches of government, and the Constitution\u2019s guarantee of due process. The lower courts rejected those arguments; the drug companies then appealed to the Supreme Court, which denied their petitions without comment on Monday.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court denied review in several other high-profile cases, including a lawsuit seeking to hold X, formerly known as Twitter, responsible for its role in allowing child pornography to remain on its platform and a challenge to a California law that a religious preschool says requires it to promote other religions.<\/p>\n

The justices will meet for another private conference on Thursday, May 21. Orders from that conference are expected on Tuesday, May 26, at 9:30 a.m. EDT.<\/p>\n

Read more Daubert dust-up and AEDPA angst<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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