Companies Spurned as Roberts Court Withholds ‘Thumb’ From Scale

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Businesses are on a rare cold streak at the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the past three months the justices have backed shareholders, employees and accident victims in suits against companies. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has lost five of the six cases in which it has filed a brief during the current nine-month term, after winning 13 of 16 a year earlier.