SCOTUS
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Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, Reader Polls, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
ATL Poll Results: Your Favorite Supreme Court Justice
Last Friday, we asked you to vote for your Favorite Supreme Court Justice. Over 1,300 votes were cast. Here are the results: Interesting! Thanks to everyone who participated in the poll. And thanks to SCOTUSblog and Professor Althouse for linking to the poll, which generated many votes. Update: Vote for your LEAST favorite Supreme Court […] -
Antonin Scalia, Dahlia Lithwick, Media and Journalism, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, You Go Girl
Dahlia Lithwick: You Go, Girl
Some of you think we give Dahlia Lithwick, the legal affairs writer for Slate, a hard time. And it’s true that we often disagree with her (even if we always acknowledge her writerly talent). But we do find ourselves agreeing with much in her latest piece, criticizing recent critiques of the news media by several […] - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
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Antonin Scalia, Eyes of the Law, Federal Judges, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The Eyes of the Law: A Legitimate Use of "Scalito"
During the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Justice Samuel A. Alito, some conservatives grumbled about one nickname bestowed upon him: “Scalito.” They argued that it unfairly treated him as a jurisprudential clone of Justice Antonin Scalia, without recognizing his independence as a thinker. Some also viewed the nickname as reflecting anti-Italian prejudice. We’d like to […]
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Anna Nicole Smith, Asha Rangappa, Celebrities, Contests, English Grammar and Usage, Hotties, John Gotti, Kids, Nathan Hecht, Reader Polls, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Week in Review, Wesley Snipes
ATL Week in Review: October 16-20
* This week we crowned America’s hottest law school deans: Evan Caminker, of Michigan, and Asha Rangappa, of Yale. When contacted by ATL, both of them issued gracious statements. * So there’s no contest for you to vote in over the weekend. But please participate in our informal reader poll, seeking to ascertain your Favorite […] -
Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, Reader Polls, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
A Random Friday Poll: Your Favorite Supreme Court Justice
This is NOT an official ATL contest. We won’t offer any commentary on the candidates, to keep the proceedings objective. This is simply a random Friday poll that we’re conducting for our own curiosity. Readers of this site are generally interested in, and highly knowledgeable about, the United States Supreme Court. Many of you might […] -
9/11, Boring Stuff, Cellphones, Federal Government, HP, Hurricane Katrina, Jeanine Pirro, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Tort Reform, War on Terror, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 09.29.06
* Senate approves broad new rules to try detainees. [New York Times; Bashman linkwrap] * Senate House grandstands over Hewlett-Packard as most witnesses take Fifth; libertarians celebrate that time wasted is time not spent passing new appropriations. [New York Times; WaPo] * Verizon Wireless piles on against H-P. [WSJ Law Blog] * Observers suggest Supreme […]
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Cert Pool, Harvard, John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Roberts and Alito, Skinnydipping in the Cert Pool
From the same Tony Mauro column that discussed Chief Justice Roberts’s new summer house comes this update on the SCOTUS cert pool: [T]he Supreme Court’s two newest justices have decided, at least temporarily, to stick with the Court’s clerk-pooling arrangement…. [B]oth Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel Alito Jr. said they will stay […] -
Antonin Scalia, Blog Wars, Blogging, Clarence Thomas, Federal Judges, Hotties, Non-Sequiturs, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Non-Sequiturs: 09.19.06
* We haven’t bothered to mix it up with our various critics, mostly out of sheer laziness. You don’t read us, we don’t read you; it’s a fair trade. But the description of the fracas in Blawg Review #75 makes launching a “blog war” sound kinda fun. [Concurring Opinions] * Now we know why bankers […] - Sponsored
The Business Case For AI At Your Law Firm
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Ann Althouse, Bad Ideas, Clerkships, Larry Sonsini, Non-Sequiturs, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Non-Sequiturs: 09.08.06
* Larry Sonsini reminds us of why we should use the phone, and NOT email, if we’re going to do something sketchy. Also, his spelling and typing skills aren’t perfect. (But by the standards of Biglaw partners of his generation, he’s in the 95th percentile — assuming he typed this all himself.) [WSJ Law Blog] […] -
Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, David Souter, Federal Judges, John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, Money, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justices Are Just Like Us -- But Richer
It’s that time of the year again, kids: when the members of the Supreme Court release their financial disclosure forms. We now get to engage in a little bit of financial voyeurism, learning which justices have gold-plated gavels, and which ones must settle for plastic. Delicious! Unfortunately, the information isn’t as comprehensive as it could […] -
Asians, China, Dan Markel, Gender, New York Times, Non-Sequiturs, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, Too Clever By Half
Non-Sequiturs: 09.01.06
–Ah, so Goulston & Storrs is going to China.* [WSJ Law Blog] –Our Legal Eagle Wedding Watch is already generating controversy — see this post (and the comments). But Dan Markel — at right, with Wendi Adelson, his lovely wife — isn’t impartial when it comes to the NYT wedding pages.** [PrawfsBlawg] –Yes, ATL will […] -
Antonin Scalia, Hurricane Katrina, Kenneth Starr, New Orleans, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Morning Docket: 8.30.06
* The number of women clerking at the Supreme Court has fallen to the lowest level since 1994. It’s all Scalia’s fault. Oh wait, no it isn’t — he never hires women anyway. [New York Times] * Former Whitewater prosecutor Ken Starr has asked the Supreme Court to hear the appeal of a high school […] -
9th Circuit, FCC, SCOTUS, Sentencing Law, Stephen Reinhardt, Supreme Court
The Upcoming SCOTUS Term: More of the Same
Howard Bashman offers a preview of the upcoming Supreme Court Term at Law.com. And based on the cases on the oral argument calendar so far, October Term 2006 isn’t looking terribly exciting. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Here’s our irreverent digest of Bashman’s lengthier analysis: Lopez v. Gonzales, Toledo-Flores v. […]
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Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
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Akhil Amar, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, John Roberts, Miguel Estrada, Neal Katyal, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Neal Katyal: The Paris Hilton of the Legal Elite?
Today’s Wednesday. Guess what that means? Time for another sycophantic profile of Georgetown Law Professor Neal Katyal! Katyal, you surely recall, successfully argued Hamdan v. Rumsfeld before the Supreme Court. For that achievement, he earned a place in the footnotes of legal history — and, even more importantly, an appearance on the Colbert Report. After […]