Supreme Court Lawsuits in Search of a Plaintiff

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a tax case April 17 that SCOTUS veteran Thomas Goldstein said he built “from the ground up.”

Goldstein said in January that in order to get to the Supreme Court he designed a law meant to challenge a decades old Supreme Court ruling, lobbied to get South Dakota to pass the law, and then went to federal court, fully intending to lose.

And the high court is eventually where Goldstein landed.

While the level of effort by Goldstein may be unique, engineered cases have led to some of the most important decisions by the ...