agree with your fairly non-controversial conclusion that the SCOTUS looks for broader implications and generally does not take
cases limited to individual circumstances
Gotta disagree with you there, chief. Last time Amarin got spurned by SCOTUS, the latter was busy with a docket full of Tsarnaev re-litigation and some abo relitigation. Both of those being by definition highly personal situations, full stop. In defense of SCOTUS those topics were all the rage.
Nonetheless SCOTUS too often acts like a post-peak TicToc influencer straining for relevance, instead of acting like the 9 best jurists in history.