SCOTUS Cert Recap: Spending Clause Statute Enforcement, Overtime Pay Exemptions, and the Bankruptcy Fraud Exception

On May 2, the U.S. Supreme Court added three more cases to its docket for next term. The first raises the question whether Spending Clause legislation may ever confer a privately enforceable “right” under Section 1983. The second concerns when an employee is “highly compensated” and thus not subject to federal overtime pay rules. And the third addresses whether the U.S. Bankruptcy Code’s bar on discharging liabilities incurred from fraud applies when the debtor has no knowledge of the fraud.