It’s not clear how the Supreme Court’s landmark Concepcion arbitration ruling might apply to shareholder litigation. But the Carlyle Group and its lawyers at Simpson Thacher are ready to test whether a public company can ban shareholder class actions.

The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case in which an employment lawyer was denied qualified immunity in a civil rights suit stemming from his assistance in a city’s internal affairs probe. The 9th Circuit held that everyone else — the city and its officers — was entitled to immunity.

The EPA faced a generally hostile Supreme Court this week in a case involving a landowner’s fight to build a home on an alleged wetland. “If you related the facts of this case to the ordinary homeowner,” that homeowner would say, “‘This doesn’t happen in the United States,’” said Justice Samuel Alito Jr.

The EPA faced a generally hostile Supreme Court this week in a case involving a landowner’s fight to build a home on an alleged wetland.

Credit repair organizations can require consumers to arbitrate their claims, the Supreme Court has ruled, rejecting arguments by consumer and senior citizen groups that the federal Credit Repair Organizations Act gives consumers a non-waivable right to go to court with claims of unfair or deceptive practices.