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A lower standard allows more suits to move forward. A higher standard blocks suits unless innocence is explicitly found."],"sources":[{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 4, lines 23-31","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2021/20-659_6jg7.pdf","page_label":"file page 4, lines 23-31"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 48, lines 23-31","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2021/20-659_6jg7.pdf","page_label":"file page 48, lines 23-31"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 55, lines 23-23","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2021/20-659_6jg7.pdf","page_label":"file page 55, lines 23-23"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 66, lines 33-33","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2021/20-659_6jg7.pdf","page_label":"file page 66, lines 33-33"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 68, lines 31-41","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2021/20-659_6jg7.pdf","page_label":"file page 68, lines 31-41"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 99, lines 25-53","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2021/20-659_6jg7.pdf","page_label":"file page 99, lines 25-53"}]},{"heading":"What happens next","paragraphs":["This article currently covers the argument record. 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