The Supreme Court began the process of creating future mischief on Wednesday when it accepted three cases for review—or “granted cert,” as we in the judicial peanut gallery like to say—and one of them is likely guaranteed to get Chief Justice John Roberts back in the good graces of the Five Furies who have spent the last couple of months ignoring the hell out of him. I’ve long believed that there are two areas of conservative thought on which Roberts is as inflexible as, say, Clarence Thomas is on virtually every issue known to man. The first is any legislation that protects voting rights, laws with which Roberts has been at war since he was a young Republican lawyer in the employ of President Ronald Reagan’s Department of Justice. The second is freeing American corporations from being overly inconvenienced by regulations designed to keep the rest of us safe and/or unexploited. On Tuesday, the Court granted cert on a case called Viking River Cruises vs. Moriana, a case that likely will let Roberts follow his worst instincts in the latter area.
At issue here is the Private Attorneys General Act, a clever workaround that California devised to free up employees to pursue lawsuits against their employers without being forced into arbitration. Angie Moriana was a sales representative for Viking River Cruises, and she sued the company for violations of California’s employment regulations under California’s PAGA, which was designed to give employees a way to get around mandatory...
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