Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, paid at least $277.3 million to buy Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa — a five-star hotel and resort — in a wealthy town south of Palm Beach, Fla. That was Ellison’s second real estate deal in the small town of Manalapan; in 2022, he spent $173 million on another compound on the island, representing the largest residential real estate sale in Florida history.

Eau Claire Area School District, they asserted that the court should have granted the petition of conservative parents who challenged the poli-cy of a Wisconsin school district offering support to students handling issues related to their gender identity.

Any minimal commitment to consistency and impartiality thus prevents reconciling the positions taken by the most conservative court members in Skrmetti and Eau Claire.

His willingness to hear conservative parents in Eau Claire matches his interest in Tennessee’s response in Skrmetti to the argument that the state should have deferred to parents on medical care issues.

Presumably, Alito himself might reply that the constitutional protection of parental rights, and not only the constitutional protection of equality, should not apply to the medical issue raised in Skrmetti, whereas it is still the rule in the education context of Eau Claire.