Amy Howe

Dec 16 2024

Justices won’t hear New York broadband case or states’ EPA challenge

The Supreme Court on Monday morning declined to take up a challenge to New York’s caps on the price that its low-income residents pay for broadband internet access. The denial of review in New York State Telecommunications Association v. James came on a list of orders released from the justices’ private conference on Friday.

After adding two new cases to their docket for the 2024-25 term on Friday, the justices did not grant any new cases on Monday. Friday’s grants included Diamond Alternative Energy v. Environmental Protection Agency, in which the court will consider whether a group of fuel producers have a legal right to challenge the EPA’s consent to a waiver for California that will allow the state to adopt its own emissions standards for greenhouse gas emissions. On Monday the justices denied review in Ohio v. Environmental Protection Agency, in which a group of states had argued more broadly that Congress violated the Constitution when it created the waiver mechanism for California because it treats California differently from the other states. Justice Clarence Thomas indicated that he would have granted the states’ petition for review.

The justices did not act on several high-profile cases that they considered at Friday’s conference, including a pair of petitions asking them to reconsider a 2000 decision upholding a Colorado law intended to protect patients and staff at abortion clinics from demonstrators and a challenge by Native Americans to the transfer of federal land in Arizona to a mining company, on the ground that it violates their religious rights.

Last Friday’s conference was the final regularly scheduled conference of 2024. The justices will meet again on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025.

Amy L Howe
Until September 2016, Amy served as the editor and reporter for SCOTUSblog, a blog devoted to coverage of the Supreme Court of the United States; she continues to serve as an independent contractor and reporter for SCOTUSblog. Before turning to full-time blogging, she served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there. From 2004 until 2011, she co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School; from 2005 until 2013, she co-taught a similar class at Harvard Law School. She has also served as an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law and Vanderbilt Law School. Amy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a master’s degree in Arab Studies and a law degree from Georgetown University.
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