Below is the Introduction to the report. Read the full report here.

Introduction

Anyone who has a savings or checking account, credit card, debit card, mortgage, student loan, car loan, retirement plan, personal loan, college savings fund, publicly traded stock, or any other financial product or service has to care about the Supreme Court because it issues a number of decisions every year that impact critical economic and financial issues facing all Americans.

While the President, White House, and Congress get most of the attention, the court system—and above all the Supreme Court—is an equally vital, if under-reported, branch of our government. It is the last resort for Americans who have been denied justice or fair compensation when they have been victimized by economic or financial criminals or predators as well as when they are let down by the regulatory agencies that are supposed to serve as the financial market watchdogs.  That’s also why the Court should use its enormous power to level the playing field between very large corporations, with their armies of lawyers, and Main Street Americans who the laws and agencies are supposed to protect.

Too often the Court’s role as a protector of the economy and America’s Main Street families is overlooked because the public—and to a greater extent the media—tend to focus on the Court’s cases dealing with more high-profile and controversial social issues like abortion rights, gun control and, more recently, issues surrounding immigration.

That’s why, in this report, we first briefly review eight key cases related to economic and financial issues decided by the Supreme Court in its 2024 term.  We then preview three cases touching on the same issues that the Court has already decided it will hear in its 2025 term starting in October.  Finally, looking further ahead, we identify nine cases with petitions pending that have the potential to make it to the Court.

Read the full report here.