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OIL STATES ENERGY SERVICES, LLC v. GREENE’S 
ENERGY GROUP, LLC 
GORSUCH, J., dissenting 

monopoly  franchises  when  it  came  to  governmental  inva-
sions.    Patents  alone  required  independent  judges.    Nor 
can simply invoking a mismatched label obscure that fact.  
The  people’s  historic  rights  to  have  independent  judges 
decide their disputes with the government should not be a 
“constitutional  Maginot  Line,  easily  circumvented”  by 
such  “simpl[e]  maneuver[s].”  Bank  Markazi  v.  Peterson, 
578 U. S. ___, ___ (2016) (ROBERTS, C. J., dissenting) (slip 
op., at 12). 
  Today’s decision may not represent a rout but it at least 
signals  a  retreat  from Article  III’s  guarantees.    Ceding to 
the  political  branches  ground  they  wish  to  take  in  the 
name  of  efficient  government  may  seem  like  an  act  of 
judicial  restraint.    But  enforcing  Article  III  isn’t  about 
protecting  judicial  authority  for  its  own  sake.    It’s  about 
ensuring  the  people  today  and  tomorrow  enjoy  no  fewer 
rights  against  governmental  intrusion  than  those  who 
came before.  And the loss of the right to an independent 
judge is never a small thing.  It’s for that reason Hamilton 
warned  the  judiciary  to  take  “all  possible  care  . . .  to  de-
fend itself against” intrusions by the other branches.  The 
Federalist No. 78, at 466.  It’s for that reason I respectfully 
dissent.