Richard Posner

Some random reading recommendations, which don’t have much to do with law. But that’s what weekends are for, right? * Suffering from Entourage withdrawal? Read about a real-life agent dumping (by Jim Carrey). [Defamer] * Suffering from Project Runway withdrawal, since there was no new episode this week? Get your hands on the New Yorker’s […]

Voter turnout in our ATL reader poll, Who Is the Paris Hilton of the Federal Judiciary?, has been surprisingly good. Not as good as turnout in our ERISA Hotties Contest; but certainly stronger than the anemic response to the August 2006 Couple of the Month survey. If you haven’t already voted, you can review the […]

Today is the first day for judicial clerkship interviews under the official Law Clerk Hiring Plan (which some judges follow, and some judges don’t). We’re going to celebrate the occasion with a judge-related poll. Here at Above the Law, we love ourselves some Paris Hilton. She’s beautiful, blonde, and rich. She’s fabulous and glamorous. She’s […]

* Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III (at right), the leading conservative of the post-Luttig Fourth Circuit, speaks out against the Federal Marriage Amendment. Interesting. But has he effectively recused himself from any case involving these issues — and scuttled any remaining SCOTUS hopes he might have had? [Washington Post via Volokh Conspiracy] * Someone call […]