Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court.
in a dispute between states over unclaimed money is one of roughly a half dozen she is expected to write by the time the court finishes its work for the summer, usually in late June. The 23-page decision was unanimous, though all the justices didn’t join the whole opinion.
Jackson's first majority opinion came in a case involving two products sold by the money-transfer company MoneyGram: the company’s “teller’s checks” and “agent checks.” Customers can buy the checks at banks and credit unions. In ruling against Delaware, Jackson noted that teller's checks and agent checks operate “like a money order” and that the unclaimed funds were being sent back “inequitably" solely to Delaware.
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