O’neal v. St John Hospital & Medical Center

Our new Chief Justice established the “agenda” for the newly reconstituted Court in her recent comments captured by the press:

We the new majority [Chief Justice Kelly and Justices Cavanagh, Weaver, and Hathaway] will get the ship off the shoals and back on course, and we will undo a great deal of the damage that the Republican-dominated court has done. Not only will we not neglect our duties, we will not sleep on the bench.[1]

*533There are many cases this term that can be said to exemplify the new majority’s commitment to “undo . . . the damage” of the prior majority, but this case certainly…