Raise your hand if you predicted that Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch would write dueling opinions in a major Supreme Court case this term, and that Kavanaugh would be joined by the Court's four liberals.
Of course you didn't. Yet that's exactly what happened on Monday in Apple v. Pepper, in which the Kavanaugh-led majority allowed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple to proceed. While the litigation still has a long way to go, the ruling will help American consumers enforce competition laws at a moment when the country may be more dominated by corporate monopolies than at any time in the past century. Kavanaugh, in other words, just helped strike a modest blow for the little guy.
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