Status of Administrative Law Judges Will be Reviewed by Supreme Court

It took just eight words: "The petitions for writs of certiorari are granted." With that sentence, the U.S. Supreme Court on January 12 let it be known that it will review a lower court decision in Lucia v. SEC, potentially overturning the way that the agency has traditionally classified its administrative law judges. The high court’s ultimate decision may upend a number of established lower court’s verdicts.