The U.S. Supreme Court has suffered an embarrassing technical screw-up after releasing the cases it would hear to attorneys and others in the legal community days ahead of schedule. It’s the second such event in less than 12 months, following the accidental release of major case updates last year.
Notifications about which cases would be granted or denied review next week were not supposed to be released until Monday, but an “apparent software malfunction” saw the decisions released to lawyers on Friday afternoon.
Mass confusion reigned as multiple attorneys compared the information in their inboxes to the court’s online docket, which did not match up. As such, the court then made the unusual move of publicly releasing its orders list.
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