How the Supreme Court ruling on nationwide injunctions impacts businesses
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Lawyers all over the country spent the weekend sorting out what the latest Supreme Court rulings will mean for the U.S. and the economy. One of Friday's decisions limits the circumstances under which lower courts can issue nationwide injunctions. The case was about the executive order related to birthright citizenship. But Marketplace's Kimberly Adams reports there are also consequences for businesses and consumers.

The Supreme Court didn't outright ban lower courts from putting a nationwide stop on federal policies while the cases play out, but the majority argues class action lawsuits are a better way to make that happen. Andre Harris is general counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

If the class is big enough, they can still get a national injunction. But the court's ruling just helps narrowly tailor injunctions for those who should be properly covered.

Before, let's say there was a business rule or environmental regulation a bunch of people or businesses didn't like. A group representing them could go to court and seek a nationwide injunction on their behalf. Groups such as the Sierra Club or the ACLU that have members across the entire nation say, we as entities aren't being harmed by this legal provision, but our members are.

Michael T. Morley is a law professor at Florida State University. And so we're suing to enforce our members' rights. We have lots of members. They're spread across the entire country. But now the Supreme Court wants lower courts to limit their rulings to the people actually involved in the case and to be careful about what constitutes a class. So moving forward... We may see multiple injunctions applying only to named plaintiffs.

Becca Brett is an associate at the law firm Clifford Chance.

Which could result in kind of a fragmented judicial environment, causing businesses to have to react in different ways depending on which jurisdiction they're in. Whereas in the past, a trade association could get a nationwide injunction by arguing that a bunch of businesses could be harmed by something, now it looks like individual businesses would have to get together in a class and really prove they would be harmed to argue for a broader hold on a policy.

We're going to see a lot more class actions in the future on behalf of businesses, which may sound ironic because we always hear about businesses defending against plaintiff class actions. Anthony Sanders is with the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm. That's not always practical, though. Class actions add all kinds of costs to lawsuits.

With all the extra costs and paperwork, Sanders expects what's more likely to happen is that fewer people and companies will even bother challenging policies at all. In Washington, I'm Kimberly Adams for Marketplace. In a Fox News interview on Sunday, President Trump said he's found a buyer for TikTok. He said the unnamed buyer was a group of very wealthy people. He went on to say the deal is still developing and would probably need China's approval.

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