Supreme Court Skeptical of Bankrupt Company’s Demand for Court Fee Refund

Ruling for the company would force taxpayers to pay for $326 million in refunds, the government argues.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor poses during a group photo of the justices at the Supreme Court in Washington on April 23, 2021. Erin Schaff/Pool via Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical of a bankrupt company’s claim that court fees that it paid should be refunded after the nation’s highest court struck down the law authorizing the fee schedule in 2022.

The case is Office of the U.S. Trustee v. John Q. Hammons Fall 2006 LLC, and the oral arguments took place at the Supreme Court on Jan. 9.