Decisions on legislative maps, the authority to adopt pandemic control measures, and public records were among the cases decided this term by a 4-3 margin. This article includes insights from a legal historian, as well as a civil litigator and a former public defender, and lists the holding and vote in each case.

Claude Covelli looks back on a career that saw him try more than 200 cases and argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.