Well, a lot of erudite lawyers saw this one coming, but it’s still disappointing that Vermont’s data-mining law has been struck down. Howard Bashman announced the bad news:
Justice Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court in Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., No. 10-779. Justice Breyer issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Ginsburg and Kagan joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.
You can access the 6-3 opinion here.
When U.S. Supreme Court ruled “money is speech” and “corporations are people,” they revealed their greed bias. Not good for America.