{"id":19850,"date":"2014-06-30T12:28:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T17:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=19850"},"modified":"2014-06-30T12:28:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T17:28:26","slug":"the-us-chamber-of-commerce-and-the-scotus-youll-want-to-see-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/the-us-chamber-of-commerce-and-the-scotus-youll-want-to-see-this\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Chamber of Commerce and the SCOTUS: You&#039;ll want to see this."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitutional Accountability Center has released it&#8217;s annual report <a href=\"http:\/\/theusconstitution.org\/text-history\/2753\/us-chamber-commerce-continues-its-winning-ways\">The Corporate Court. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Let\u2019s begin with the numbers.  This Term, the Chamber was involved in 17 cases overall\u2014directly representing one of its member companies in Canning, litigating as a party in UARG, and filing amicus briefs in 15 other cases.  The Chamber\u2019s 17 cases represent just under a quarter of the total cases set down for argument this Term.<\/p>\n<p>All told, the Chamber racked up a record of 11 wins and 5 losses\u2014or a 69% winning percentage.  (One of its cases\u2014Mt. Holly v. Mt. Holly Gardens Citizens in Action\u2014settled before oral argument.)  That means that, since Samuel Alito succeeded Sandra Day O\u2019Connor on the Court in January 2006, the Chamber has won 70% of its cases (85 wins and 36 losses), compared with only 43% in the late Burger Court (15 of 35 from 1981-1986) and 56% in the stable Rehnquist Court (45 of 80 from 1994-2005). &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Constitutional Accountability Center has released it&#8217;s annual report The Corporate Court. &#8230;Let\u2019s begin with the numbers. This Term, the Chamber was involved in 17 cases overall\u2014directly representing one of its member companies in Canning, litigating as a party in UARG, and filing amicus briefs in 15 other cases. The Chamber\u2019s 17 cases represent just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/30\/the-us-chamber-of-commerce-and-the-scotus-youll-want-to-see-this\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The US Chamber of Commerce and the SCOTUS: You&#039;ll want to see this.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,558,5020,3346],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5aa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}