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U.S. Supreme Court,
California Supreme Court

Jul. 7, 2017

Podcast: High Court Highlights

How a split California Supreme Court leaves uncertainty about Prop 36 resentencing discretion, and a unanimous Texas high court queries the 'constellation of benefits' guaranteed same-sex marriages by 'Obergefell;' plus, commentary on a liberal-justice-driven pro-business SCOTUS term, and what dicta nuances foretell for next term's immigration battles

Adam Winkler

Professor, Constitutional Law Scholar, UCLA School of Law

New York Univ School of Law

Adam is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and the author of "Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America."

John C. Eastman

Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence c/o Chapman Law School

1 University Dr
Orange , CA 92866

Phone: (714) 628-2587

Email: jeastman@chapman.edu

Univ of Chicago Law School

Dr. John C. Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service at Chapman University's Fowler School of Law, and founding director of the Claremont Institute's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence.

Dale Carpenter

Professor, SMU Dedman School of Law

3315 Daniel Ave
Dallas , TX 75205

Phone: (214) 768-2638

Email: dacarpenter@smu.edu

Univ of Chicago Law School

Dale Carpenter is a professor at the SMU Dedman School of Law.

Michael Romano

Lecturer at Law, Stanford Law School

559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford , CA 94305

Phone: (650) 736-8670

Email: michaelromano@gmail.com

Stanford Univ Law School



This week, as the U.S. Supreme Court begins its summer recess, Adam Winkler, of UCLA School of Law, will discuss how liberal justices, in what has become a perhaps unexpected trend, helped render a number of pro-business rulings over the past term.

And John Eastman, from Chapman University Fowler School of Law, will walk us through some anticipatory posturing laid out by justices during the term, jurisprudential discursions that, Eastman says, the justices may very well be writing to help bolster their eventual rulings in next term's immigration law battles, among them President Trump's executive order temporary banning travel from certain countries. Eastman will discuss what signals courtwatchers can glean from these various nuances in the court's dicta.

Also, we discuss two state cases drew attention this week, one a divided ruling in the California Supreme Court keeping broad discretion in the hands of judges hearing Prop 36 Three Strikes Reform Act resentencing petitions, and thus rendering resentencing under that Act more elusive, and another a unanimous ruling from Texas questioning whether and to what extent lower courts may be able to narrow the impact of 'Obergefell v. Hodges.'

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Brian Cardile

Rulings Editor, Podcast Host, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reporter
brian_cardile@dailyjournal.com

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