Supreme Court
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Media and Journalism, New York Times, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Bonus Babies: We're on the List!
O happy day! Our New York Times op-ed piece, praising the lavish bonuses bestowed upon Supreme Court clerks, has made the Most Emailed Articles list: Thanks to all of you who have visited the NYT homepage and emailed this article to your friends and loved ones. And thanks to the bloggers who have linked to […] -
Bonuses, Clerkships, Money, New York Times, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Shameless Plugs, Skaddenfreude, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
The Supreme Court's Bonus Babies
A more detailed (but equally shameless) plug will follow tomorrow. For now, please check out this article: Then email it to, say, fifty of your closest friends. We are desperately trying to crack the NYT’s “Most Emailed Articles” list. Much thanks. See you tomorrow! The Supreme Court’s Bonus Babies [The New York Times] - Sponsored
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Alberto Gonzales, Football, Habeas Corpus, Immigration, Morning Docket, Oral Sex / Blow Jobs, SCOTUS, Sentencing Law, Sports, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 06.12.07
* Really, Baker, you’re gonna appeal? Listen, let it go. Nobody wants this guy in jail. [New York Times via How Appealing] * Who will patrol the guardsmen? [New York Times] * Senate seven votes shy on expressing no confidence in Gonzales. [Jurist] * Rum and coke at a Bears game? [WSJ Law Blog] * […]
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Eyes of the Law, Fabulosity, Harriet Miers, Supreme Court, White House Counsel
The Eyes of the Law: A Thrilling Lunchtime Sighting
We’re about to sit down and enjoy a sandwich we just picked up from Cosi. If it’s good enough for the Chief Justice, it’s good enough for us. Normally we’d wash our hands first. But not today. Why? Because we just met Harriet Miers — and shook her hand! We were crossing the street at […] -
Media and Journalism, SCOTUS, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Shameless Plugs, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Welcoming New Members of the Elect
In addition to our ATL work, we write freelance pieces for print publications. In the current issue of Washingtonian magazine, we have a short write-up about the incoming class of Supreme Court clerks. Here’s the lede: After the Supreme Court enters its summer recess this month, a new wave of eager young legal scholars in […] -
Jan Crawford Greenburg, Linda Greenhouse, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Greenhouse v. Greenburg: JCG Responds
“Linda says Jan has had work done — I mean, A LOT of work….” Due to associate pay raise mania, we’ve been neglecting news in other areas of the legal profession — like our beloved federal judiciary. We’re embarrassed, for example, not to have commented upon the Bush Administration’s rumored Supreme Court short list, drawn […] -
Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerk Hiring Watch: October Term 2008
We’ve received some news about Supreme Court law clerk hiring for October Term 2008 (not the upcoming Term, but the one after that): 1. We had heard, through the grapevine, that Justice Antonin Scalia had started his OT 2008 interviewing earlier than usual. And it appears to have yielded at least one hire: Yaakov Roth […] -
Feminism, Gender, Judicial Divas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Justice Ginsburg: No Future in Voice-Over Work, But Could Become the Next Great Liberal Lioness
The front page of today’s Washington Post has an interesting article about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dissent yesterday in Ledbetter v. Goodyear: The court ruled 5 to 4 that Lilly Ledbetter, the lone female supervisor at a tire plant in Gadsden, Ala., did not file her lawsuit against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in the […] - Sponsored
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Supreme Court
Supreme Court Limits Pay Discrimination Suits
In yet another 5-4 decision with Kennedy casting the deciding vote, the Supreme Court today limited the ability to sue under Title VII for pay decisions made prior to the 180-day EEOC charge period. That’s about all we got out of the very small portion of the opinion that we had the time or inclination […] -
Jan Crawford Greenburg, Linda Greenhouse, Media and Journalism, New York Times, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Greenhouse v. Greenburg: The Catfight Continues
Do we exaggerate the rivalry between Linda Greenhouse, the New York Times’s veteran Supreme Court correspondent, and comely up-and-comer Jan Crawford Greenburg, who covers the Court for ABC News? Maybe. We have a weakness for the dramatic, in case you haven’t noticed. But even if exaggerated, there’s no denying the tension between these two formidable […] -
8th Circuit, Antonin Scalia, Benchslaps, Death Penalty, Habeas Corpus, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Benchslap of the Day: Justice Scalia's Dissent in Roper
Okay, make that yesterday. A reader email drew our attention to the saucy conclusion of Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in Roper v. Weaver: The greatest harm is that done to AEDPA, since dismissing the writ of certiorari leaves the Eighth Circuit’s grossly erroneous precedent on the books. (That precedent, by the way, cannot be explained […] -
SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Tax Law
Satan's Petition for Certiorari, Granted
In his recent post summarizing three new cases the Supreme Court has agreed to hear, Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog mentions the docket numbers for two of them, as is his usual practice. But he omits the docket number of one of the cases that was granted certiorari today: Could someone be a little superstitious? May […] -
Clarence Thomas, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Justice Thomas To Be Played By Holly Hunter in SCOTUS Motion Picture
If you’ve done any significant amount of appellate work, surely you’ve argued before one of THOSE judges. A judge who asks questions at oral argument just for the sake of asking questions. A jurist in love with the sound of his or her own voice. They can be entertaining or exasperating, depending upon whether you’re […]
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9th Circuit, Benchslaps, Nude Dancing, Police, Racism, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Ebony and Ivory, Live Together in Perfect Harmony: Los Angeles County v. Rettele
Several commenters drew our attention to the Supreme Court’s quasi-amusing decision today in Los Angeles County v. Rettele (PDF). We also received reader email about it: “In the per curiam opinion in LA County v. Retelle (PDF), we get a nice discussion of racial harmony in the context of naked white people being awakened early […] -
Antitrust, Boring Stuff, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Supreme Court Hands Down Five Rulings. Nation Yawns, Mourns Dead Trees.
Zzzzzzzzz… Guess this is the calm before the storm. The Supreme Court cranks out lots of important-but-boring opinions in May, so it can clear the decks and focus on the 5-4, “It’s All About AMK” barnburners that it dumps on the nation in June. Nino starts saving up his energy for penning those trademark zingers […] -
Biglaw, Carter Phillips, John Roberts, Kids, Legal Ethics, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
The Women of One First Street: Some SCOTUS Scuttlebutt
We’re a little late on this (and blame our tardiness on associate pay fixation). But here are two interesting tidbits of Supreme Court gossip, from Tony Mauro of the Legal Times: 1. Carter Phillips’ Kin Is Alito Clerk [Legal Times] One of Justice Samuel Alito’s incoming clerks, Jessica Phillips — who has been described as […] -
Carter Phillips, Craigslist, Romance and Dating, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Craiglist Poster Faces Stiff Competition for Hottie Clerk's Heart
Remember our lovelorn Craigslist poster, with a hopeless crush on the dazzling Denise McNerney, Merits Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court? It appears that he may have a rival for the affections of this comely clerk. From today’s Legal Times: [T]here was a large and enthusiastic turnout at Georgetown University Law Center April 26 as […] -
John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, William Rehnquist
Justice John Paul Stevens: He Likes 'Em Young
When it comes to law clerks, that is. In other words, Justice Stevens does not subscribe to the trend of hiring Supreme Court clerks who are several years out of law school, with a few years of practice under their belts. As JPS explains in an interesting interview in The Third Branch, which a tipster […] -
Craigslist, Romance and Dating, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
'The Supreme Court Clerk of My Heart': Not Talkin' About Pam Talkin
We recently posted about an amusing Craigslist “Missed Connections” ad (text here; no longer available on CL itself). It was posted by a lovelorn, 30-year-old male, with a crush on a female Supreme Court employee who shows up to oral argument in tails. We wondered whether our poster might have a crush on Pamela Talkin, […] -
Craigslist, Romance and Dating, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Desperately Seeking 'The Supreme Court Clerk of My Heart'
Check out this posting, currently on the “Missed Connections” section of Craigslist: My words come to you by ‘Writ of Certiorari’ from my heart. I have an ‘Opinion’: You are without a doubt the most perfect girl on the Hill. I look forward to argument days just so I can see your smile and say […]