#teller's checks

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court.

The opinion released Tuesday in a dispute between states over unclaimed money is one of roughly a half dozen she is expected to write by the time the Court finishes its work for the summer, usually in late June. The 23-page decision was unanimous, though all the Justices didn’t join the whole opinion.

The Justices sided with a group of states that said that Delaware had improperly received hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed funds over more than a decade that should have been shared among the states.

Each Justice typically writes at least one opinion from the seven separate two-week arguments sessions the Court holds from early October to late April. But in January and February, for example, the Court has only seven argued cases each month, meaning there are not enough to go around.

Jackson, 52, joined the high court in June following the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer. She is the first Black woman to serve as a Justice and just the third Black person on the court. The others are Justice Clarence Thomas, the longest-serving among the nine Justices, and the late Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Jackson’s first majority opinion came in a case involving two products sold by the money-transfer company MoneyGram: the company’s “teller’s checks” and “agent checks.” Customers can buy the checks at banks and credit unions.

When teller’s checks and agent checks aren’t cashed, the Dallas-based MoneyGram sends the abandoned funds to Delaware, the state where MoneyGram is incorporated. But other states pointed to a federal law about abandoned money orders, traveler’s checks and “similar written instruments.” The law says that when those go uncashed, the funds from them go back to the state where they were purchased.

The states argued that MoneyGram’s teller’s checks and agent checks counted as “money orders” or “similar written instruments” and that they were due money.

In ruling against Delaware, Jackson noted that teller’s checks and agent checks operate “like a money order” and that the unclaimed funds were being sent back “inequitably” solely to Delaware.

In a statement Brenda Mayrack, the director of Delaware’s Office of Unclaimed property, said the state is “disappointed in the ruling.”

The case now returns to a federal judge the court has appointed to oversee the dispute, a “special master,” for additional proceedings.

Jackson wrote her first dissenting opinion in November, in support of a death row inmate from Ohio who failed to win Supreme Court review of his case.

Lawyers for the inmate, Davel Chinn, argued that the state suppressed evidence that might have altered the outcome of his trial.

Jackson wrote that she would have ordered lower courts to take another look at the case. Only Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined Jackson’s opinion.

[almondcroissantsandink]

watched top gun maverick for the first time and wow what a fun movie

[galactic-marvelettes]

ATTENTION: TOP GUN: MAVERICK IS BEING RE-RELEASED THIS WEEK IN THEATERS.

That is all.

[triaelf9]

Me like 5 years ago: Sovereign is such a cool name for a baddie ruler of a baddie group. I'm sure my dyslexic ass won't regret using that name.

Me, still unable to reliably spell the word: IT'S FOR THE STORY, I ONLY HAVE TO WRITE IT FOR ANOTHER COUPLE OF CHAPTERS, STICK WITH IT, ELAINE

[vampireghostlawyer]

what a horrible thing to not speak to someone in half a decade and still think of them every time you hear a certain song or a laugh that sounds like theirs.

[twstgo]

it's Lizette's birthday!! which means I'm taking that as an excuse to drop everything to make a groovy vers of the broomquet Liz I did last year

[mof-rot]

I drew Clementine and Kingsley from @yaelokre ‘s music!

[softgrungeprophet]

i did win this run fwiw, but with 7 total jokers lol

[deadlypastelcutieart]

You know… It’s intresting that these two characters despite being obscure, are voiced by well known actors that I’ve never heard of before!

For Moxy, he’s voiced by famous 80’s actor/comedian Bobcat Goldthwait. And Flea being voiced by Penn Jillette, which Im honeslty suprised to find out he’s a famous magician! I never heard of the duo Penn and Teller. But I LOVE magicans!! And I think that’s cool that Moxy’s best friend is voiced by a magician! :D

So here’s a drawing as a little tribute to their voice actors and what their mostly famous for! :)

[starpros-sunshine]

seb. seb bard wataru and secluded noble eichi as their cnstars exclusive cards au

!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes yes yes yes yes Ohhh I can see it I can see it

I'm gonna put this under read more because this could get longer

Wataru as a traveling bard and Eichi is a noble that lives a kind of isolated life dur to his weak constitution and Wataru comes by Eichis castle or mansion or chateau or whatever fancy piece of architecture he occupies and Eichi hears Watarus music and comes to the window and they have a moment of eye contact and initially Wataru doesn't think much of it and travels further after he played a few more pieces for Eichi -because of course if the audience enjoys it then the entertainer shall entertain for that is his job - and so after that little private concert is over he travels further. His eay leads him this small town that's not so far from the fancy piece of architecture, because I like to be a little cliché, and there he hears all sorts of rumours about the mysterious nobles that live in the...I'll just call it a mansion now it's a chateau-adjacent mansion. Any ways those rumours catch his intrigue and he decides to stay in the town a little and he stays at an inn maybe and he pays him rent by playing music for them in the evenings,,,

Oh and maybe this is where he runs into Yuzuru! He's on the street just observing and he sees this elegant and very pretty looking young man and he doesn't look like someone from the town but he also doesn't have the air of an aristocrat about him and he catches some older women gossipping about him and apparently he's a domestic servant of the strange nobles that everyone seems to be a little scared of because they never seem to show their face anywhere.

Maybe he tries to strike up a conversation with Yuzuru or maybe that process repeats multiple times but eventually he decides to snoop around the Mansion a little and maybe he runs into Eichi again,,,

And maybe he gives him a few more private concerts or magic performances I reckon he does those too and the intrigue grows and grows and by now the people in the town know Wataru by name and sometimes he gets free food gifted by them and they're still a little wary of him because he just appeared one day and nobody knows where this strange man with his birds and his heavenly voice came from but he seems to be nice so they come to like him.

And Yuzuru picks up some of the rumours about this strange bard that pays his room at the local inn by playing songs for the patrons in the evenings and sometimes helps out the elderly i the town and he notices he's seen this man before playing music outside of their house so of course he mentions these rumours to Eichi and Tori who in turn are intrigued and a little sceptic respectively.

When Wataru appears the at Eichis balcony the next time Eichi actually initiates a conversation with Wataru and that continues over the next few visits as well and eventually they go from "Bard" and "My Lord" to "Wataru" and "Eichi" or still "My Lord" but this is different though it's the same as when Wataru calls Eichi emperor it's more teasing than a formality you have to imagine a grin in his voice as he says that. Tori and Yuzuru have no idea about most of these visits because half of them are in the middle of the night (I imagine it a little like the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet right right).

And so they grow closer and as the time passes Wataru starts to actually settle a little in the town. The room he was renting at the inn is pretty much actually his room now, he could've moved out but he lives on a good deal and the older couple that runs the inn treat him like their own son now (he doens't even have to do shows every evening anymore, just sometimes a week) and pretty much all of the regulars know him personally now and on a first name basis (nobody actually knows his last name). This is the first time in forever he's stayed at one place for this long and it's all just because he has taken a liking to this feeble-ish blonde aristocrat that looks at him like he hung all the stars in the sky up by himself.

He still only knows Tori by hearsay and Yuzuru just briefly - somehow they never ran into each other when he was there during the day - But Eichi has joked about introducing them properly before.

in my mind there's this one specific image of Eichi and Wataru standing on his Balcony and they are both on opposite sides of the railing and it's the middle of the night and it's chilly so Eichi has his blanket draped over his shoulders because that's the sensible thing to do when it's cold and Wataru is standing on the opposide side of the railing, kind of standing on the edge of it and leaning more over the railing into the space of the balcony where you actually stand on and they are being disgusting in the way that they're flirting and maybe they also kiss a little,,, maybe,,,, because I want them to,,,,

And sweet innocent Yuzuru only hears about things between Eichi and Wataru via the rumour mill when he goes to run errands on the market and hears that the bard from the inn has been seen in the evening multiple times as he's walking the path to the mansion of the nobles nobody really knows. And he hasn't been back until the early hours of the morning. And so Yuzuru tells this to Tori. And they're both too awkward to ask him straight out so whenever they hear Eichi humming a tune while he does... whatever it is rich people do. They just look at each other and the question is in the room but nobody knows how to break it and they come to just. the weirdest conclusions because nobody in this house communicates like a normal person.

And maybe sometimes Eichi sneaks out to visit Wataru in the town (the first time this happened he put on a really big hood and changes his voice a little so it would be harder to recognise and actually caught Wataru off-guard for once). Watarus birds like him too...at least most of them do.

I like to think he once had to explain to Tori why he smells like bird and it was suuuper awkward because there aren't a lot of ways to talk yourself around having to explain that the night before you were basically turned into a pigeon nest and it took you and your bard-kind-of-boyfriend-but-also-not-really-but-you-have-something-going-on-you-just-don't-really-know-what-to-call-it-because-that-topic-has-been-successfully-avoided spent a good 20 minutes trying to get all the feathers out of your hair and clothes. Tori didn't buy his excuse but it made so little sense that he doesn't really think he wants to know either so he choses to live in ignorance for once. (when he does meet Wataru he remembers this and suddenly it all makes sense because Wataru also smells like birds. He choses living in ignorance was good while it lasted.)

After some more time of being acquainted with Wataru Eichi and Tori decide to also show their faces in the town for once and both parties have to warm up to each other and it's a little off for all involved (Wataru and Yuzuru are the only people who actually know both sides personally) but with the time the general unease regarding the secluded nobles ebbs out a little. There's still people who don't like them but it's civil still because they like Yuzuru and while they think Wataru is a bit strange they have come to like him as well and why provoke unneccessary comflict when you can just decide not to interact with those people.

I could talk sooooo much more but I don't think anyone actually wants to read this much or cares for it so I will try to stop now but just. Eichi bringing the traveling bard Wataru to settle down and "tying him down to humanity" by keeping in one place and Ohhhhhhh you can even have something EP:Link-esque in this like. Eichi is convinced Wataru will leave him eventually because he's a free spirit and tying him down would be unfair or impossible or something and Wataru gives him...I dob't know maybe not a mask but his instrument or something maybe a mask works too because he would probably still be a bard the man has to make a living somehow but symbolically the instrument would work better. But yes and he gives that to him and tells him "this is me and I offer this to you" and Eichi still doesn't get it so at their next redezvous it's like. the second part of that converstation where Eichi had to accept that Wataru wanting to stay is the only logical explanation left and he has to accept that and ooooh there's layers to this there is actually layers to this I'm so,,,,,hehehehehe,,,,laughing ecstatically and clapping my hands,,,,

[bradshawsbitch]

Stalking the miles teller tag and i saw ur post about him being active on facebook lol it doesn’t end there middle aged women go CRAZY in his comments like it’s actually insane to see

Hahahahhaa oh my god that is actually hilarious to me for some reason oh god!!!😭 like mans is just posting millennial edits of his little dog and Linda, 52 is going apeshit in his comments bless her heart🤧

[the-down-upside-finch]

Happy STS! Which character would absolutely love to meet? Which character do you never ever want to run into?

Happy STS!! Thank you for the ask! :}

Hands down I would love to meet LeRoy from Stained Integrity. If not to have yet another person in my life that is nearly two feet taller than me, at least for someone to have "Wait that’s relatable" SR asexual conversations with 😭 Also I could use someone in my life that’s so genuinely full of love

I feel like I could take the easy way out and say I never want to meet most of the villains I create (like Epsilon from Potentially Kinetic. Screw that guy), but honestly? I also never would want to run into Luss (from Pentad of Un) because he would, without fail, immediately make fun of me for something or, like, jumpscare me for fun.

[saenora]

🎤 @daiseukiis HAS ONE OF THE BEST TAKES ON FICS. THAT BRAIN SHOULD BE PRESERVED. 🎤

[bradshawsbaby]

Notice who’s not with the cast again

I genuinely feel sorry for you.

[chitaayakuqing]

ife in the chopping block?

Thinking about when I worked at a shitty restaurant + one night it was just me + 3 other women on closing shift, so some guy came in the back and waved a knife around, presumably for money but I’m not actually certain, bc he was met with the bartender holding a much bigger knife, a tiny teenager wielding a cast iron pan, an elderly woman holding up a crockpot of clearly boiling water, and me, turning on the meat slicer with eye contact for maximum effect. He left, but the moral of the story is not girl power or whatever, it’s just. Why the fuck would you threaten a room full of underpaid and sleep-deprived blue-collar workers surrounded by lethal weapons.

[pvtchurch]

*just remembered LICO exists* *starts crying*