What about that SCOTUS opinion?
January 6, 2021Did that recent SCOTUS opinion overrule older Circuit authority? “If a
precedent of this Court has direct application in a case, yet appears to rest on
reasons rejected in some other line of decisions, the Court of Appeals should
follow the case which directly controls, leaving to this Court the prerogative
of overruling its own decisions.” Baisley v. Int’l Assoc. of Machinists & Aerospace Workers, No. 20-50319 (Dec. 22, 2020) (quoting Rodriguez de Quijas v. Shearson/American Express, Inc., 490 U.S. 477, 484 (1989)).