Welcome back to Legal Geek. This week, I send Happy Thanksgiving wishes to the Current Geek crew and look ahead to the Supreme Court cases we should be watching in the 2016 term.
Here's what we have to look forward to from the Supreme Court, as well as any others which end up involving intellectual property and/or geek culture:
Fisher v. University of Texas - race factors and affirmative action in university admissions is back in front of the court for the first time in about a decade.
Fredericks vs. California Teachers Association - First Amendment challenge to forcing compulsory union dues on governmental agency and public sector workers.
Evenwel v. Abbott - A case over redrawing legislative district lines and "gerrymandering," as the question presented is whether the One Person, One Vote principle require states to use voter populations instead of total populations when redrawing legislative districts.
Whole Woman's Health v. Cole - a challenge to Texas laws which serve only to shut down abortion clinics.
Little Sisters of the Poor v. Sebelius - Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) follow up on whether religious organizations can be forced by the mandates of the healthcare law to provide contraceptives and sterilization items via their benefits administrator.
Several death penalty cases, including Hurst v. Florida
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