After the Supreme Court heard its last round of oral arguments this week ahead of the new year, justices decided to add four new cases to its docket Friday in disputes surrounding cryptocurrency, the IRS, immigration advising services, and federal criminal sentencing.
The court’s decision came after four separate relisted petitions were made to the justices this week, and justices decided to grant the cases for arguments in a Dec. 9 order.
The following list includes the new cases that will be argued before the nine-member court during the spring 2023 term:
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The high court took up an appeal surrounding a user lawsuit in a case that could strengthen the ability of companies to move customer and employee disputes into arbitration.
Coinbase, the popular cryptocurrency ledger, is attempting to halt a pair of lawsuits it contends belong in private arbitration by customers who alleged the company is failing to shield their funds from theft.
The issue surrounds whether the lawsuit should move forward while Coinbase pushes an appeal that seeks to send the case to arbitration. The cryptocurrency company argues that trial court proceedings should automatically halt when a party files a nonfrivolous appeal seeking to compel arbitration.
Polselli v. Internal Revenue Service
Justices will weigh a case surrounding a question as to whether the IRS was required to notify a bank account holder when it summoned their records to collect on a different taxpayer’s liabilities.
The IRS summonsed the bank records from a pair of law firms that represent delinquent taxpayer Remo Polselli and his wife, Hanna Karcho Polselli, on suspicion that the records could reveal how Remo Polselli paid the firms.
The high court will also hear a First Amendment case surrounding a scam that falsely promoted adult adoptions as a pathway to U.S. citizenship.
The case is slated to examine whether a section of federal immigration law is unconstitutional because it is so broad that it violated the First Amendment’s free speech promises. Justices heard arguments over the same matter in a different case two years ago but ultimately punted on the question at hand.
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Finally, the justices will weigh whether federal criminal sentencing laws should force a New York man convicted of a drug trafficking-related murder to be sentenced consecutively rather than concurrently.
The Supreme Court will not hear oral arguments again until Jan. 9, in a case over whether a communication involving both legal and nonlegal advice is shielded by attorney-client privilege in which obtaining or providing legal advice was one of the main reasons behind the communication.
