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Opinion Announcements, Tony Mauro
Opinion Announcements, Tony Mauro
Chicago-Kent Law Review
When the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision on the fate of the Affordable Care Act on June 28, 2012, several news organizations rushed to report, incorrectly, that the court had overturned the law. Those making the error did not wait for Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. to complete his twenty-minute announcement of the opinion from the bench. But anyone who had listened to the opinion announcement from start to finish would almost certainly have gotten it right.
This article examines the rarely discussed tradition of Supreme Court opinion announcements and their role in the interplay between the court, …