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Speaker 1: You're listening to Bloomberg Law on Bloomberg Radio. The Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court was back in session yesterday for oral arguments, and

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Speaker 1: today the Court issued three decisions, including in one case

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Speaker 1: that was closely followed with the justices blocking the execution

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Speaker 1: of a Texas murderer because of racially discriminatory testimony. Our

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Speaker 1: co host and Supreme Court reporter Greg's Stories at the

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Speaker 1: Court to tell us all about the opinions today and

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Speaker 1: a special appearance, let's say the special appearance for later, Greg.

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Speaker 1: This is a second time the Court overturned a death

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Speaker 1: sentence in this new term. What was the reasoning? This

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Speaker 1: is a case June involving a man named Dwyene Buck

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Speaker 1: in Texas and he shot three people, killed two of them,

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Speaker 1: including his girlfriend in front of her children. And when

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Speaker 1: he was sentenced to death, one of the factors the

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Speaker 1: jury considered was how dangerous he was likely to be,

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Speaker 1: and his own lawyer put up an expert witness that said, oh,

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Speaker 1: he's not really that dangerous, but this law this sport

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Speaker 1: witness also had produced a report that said that black

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Speaker 1: men and mr Buck is black, are more dangerous than

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Speaker 1: white men. And uh, the jury sentenced into death and

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Speaker 1: his he challenged his conviction, uh twain Buck did, and

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Speaker 1: the courts said, um, uh no it can. The sentence

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Speaker 1: sentences is okay. And today the Supreme Court decided whether

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Speaker 1: or not he could reopen his case to argue that

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Speaker 1: he didn't get effective assistance of counsel. There was also

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Speaker 1: a decision today that came down from on patent liability.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't there it was? Yeah. This was another in a

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Speaker 1: series of cases where the Supreme Court uh has restricted

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Speaker 1: patent rights more than the federal appeals court that handles

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Speaker 1: patent cases. This has to do with whether when you

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Speaker 1: have a patent product and it's has multiple components and

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Speaker 1: they're put together and sold overseas, whether if you just

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Speaker 1: produce one component of that patented product here in the

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Speaker 1: US and ship it over there, that is enough to

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Speaker 1: uh subject you to patent liability. The Supreme Court today

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Speaker 1: said no, it's got to be more than that. The

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Speaker 1: patent law requires all our substantial part of the product

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Speaker 1: to be produced here in the US, and one components

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Speaker 1: is not enough. Greg to go back to the death

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Speaker 1: penalty cases. Yesterday, Justice Sonya Sotomayor, along with Justice Stephen

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Speaker 1: Brier dissented from the Court's decision not to hear the

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Speaker 1: case of Alabama's oldest inmate, who has been on death

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Speaker 1: row since the nineteen eighties, and Justice Soda Mayor wrote

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Speaker 1: about it. Tell us what she said in the impact. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this this case was about the lethal injection protocol that

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Speaker 1: Alabama and other states use. They use a sedative called

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Speaker 1: medazzy lamb U that has been involved in some botched

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Speaker 1: execution where it at least appeared as though the inmate

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Speaker 1: wasn't totally knocked out before the fatal drug was administered.

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Speaker 1: And the question is uh. Mr Arthur said that that

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Speaker 1: he didn't want to be executed with mendazz lamb and

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Speaker 1: he actually wanted to be executed with a firing squad.

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Speaker 1: And the lower courts Alabama and then the lower courts said, um,

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Speaker 1: now you have to be able to show us, uh,

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Speaker 1: some other protocol that that is both available under Alabama's

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Speaker 1: law and um, uh you know what would would be

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Speaker 1: less likely to cause you a significant pain? And uh.

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Speaker 1: He appealed to the Supreme Court, one of the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court to take his case. The court refused. Justice Sodama,

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Speaker 1: you're a very passionate dissent from that decision not to

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Speaker 1: hear his case, uh, saying that the state was putting, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, an impossible burden on inmates and basically, uh

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Speaker 1: making so that the the courts can't really review the

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Speaker 1: lethal injection or other death death penalty protocols that the

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Speaker 1: states use. Greg, we only have a little bit of

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Speaker 1: time left. But there there was somebody kind of uh

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Speaker 1: word is that there were some from the president's family

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Speaker 1: in the court today? Is that there was Ivanka Trump

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Speaker 1: was here with her daughter. They sat through what must

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Speaker 1: have been a very boring arbitration case for them. She

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Speaker 1: was here because she had met Justice Kennedy at the

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Speaker 1: inauguration expressive interest in the court. He invited her to

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Speaker 1: come over here. So she sat in the special seats

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Speaker 1: that are reserved for the v I p s and

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Speaker 1: guests of the justices UM and then tweeted a picture

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Speaker 1: of herself leaving the court at the end of the session. So, Greg,

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Speaker 1: the question is does that have any bearing on Justice

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Speaker 1: Judge Gorstch, who is the nominee of Donald Trump and

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Speaker 1: a former clerk of Justice Kennedy's Oh, only fifteen seconds.

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Speaker 1: You're asking me to read Justice Kennedy's mind. I will

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Speaker 1: tell you this. We're gonna be asking questions like that

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Speaker 1: a lot. Really going to be interesting at the end

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Speaker 1: of the term to see whether Justice Kennedy decided to

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Speaker 1: hang up his rope. Thank you so much. That's our

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Speaker 1: own Greg store at the Supreme Court. Coming up, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be talking about Arizona wanting to leave the Ninth

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