- July 3, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
WASHINGTON—Business litigants overall have fared well at the Supreme Court in recent years but their gains were more incremental during the court’s just-ended term, and while they won a few big cases, others ended in one-sided defeats.
Wins for the business community included rulings that cut back on unions’ physical access to farmworkers, raised a new bar for some consumer class-action lawsuits and removed a hurdle for the construction of natural-gas pipelines.
But those were balanced against losses in which the court declined to make it harder to bring certain product-liability and securities-fraud lawsuits. The justices also affirmed antitrust liability for the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
The 2020-21 term, which ended this week, was the first for a court with a conservative majority that now enjoys a 6-3 advantage thanks to the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Most business rulings,…
