The Supreme Court will file its opinion in Holland v. Silverscreen Healthcare on August 14. Holland involves this question: In a lawsuit against a skilled nursing facility arising from the facility’s alleged failure to protect a decedent from falls and infection, can the facility rely on an arbitration agreement signed only by the decedent to compel the decedent’s heirs to arbitrate a wrongful death claim?

(Subscription required) The 9th Circuit upheld a federal court order blocking ICE from using race, language, location, and type of work as the sole basis for stops, rejecting the Trump administration's bid to shield its admitted constitutional violations from judicial review.

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