LAST April, at his inaugural oral argument as America’s 113th justice, Neil Gorsuch wasted no time: he asked 22 questions, more than any of his colleagues posed on their first outings. Over the next six weeks, Justice Gorsuch cut a rather assertive figure on the bench and with his pen, writing biting opinions in several cases and developing an early reputation as perhaps even more conservative than his predecessor, Antonin Scalia. It came as some surprise, then, that in the first hearing of the Supreme Court’s 2017-18 term, Justice Gorsuch stayed mum while his colleagues (except the characteristically tight-lipped Clarence Thomas) sparred with lawyers in Epic Systems Corp v Lewis, a major labour-law case involving the nature of employees’ right to sue their employers.
Facts on the ground are stacked against the workers, as Chief Justice John Roberts subtly pointed out in his questioning of Daniel Ortiz, a University of Virginia law professor who argued for the employees. Mr Ortiz began by noting that countless companies...Continue reading
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