Samuel Alito
-
Email Scandals, Junk Email / Spam, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Technology
A Supreme Spouse Falls Victim To Spam?
Having spam emails sent out under your name: it can happen to any of us. Including, it seems, the spouse of a Supreme Court justice.... -
Constitutional Law, Election 2012, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
On Constitution Day, Americans Like The Constitution Just The Way It Is, So Long As It Says What They Like
On Constitution Day, the day when Americans get to show how much they love the Constitution that they barely understand... - Sponsored
Are Small Firms Going Big On Legal Tech?
Please help us benchmark your firm against your peers through this (always) brief and anonymous survey and enter for a chance to win a $250… -
Canada, Media and Journalism, Quote of the Day, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Quote of the Day: Lock 'Em Up and Throw Away the Key
Perhaps fewer journalistic errors would occur if SCOTUS adopted this practice in the United States...
-
Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, John Roberts, Quote of the Day, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
Fun (and Depressing) Fact of the Day: Two-Thirds of Americans Are Pretty Freakin' Dumb
Most Americans can't name a single Supreme Court justice. How depressing! -
Elena Kagan, Immigration, Kids, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Everyone Is Being Reasonable
What happened at the Supreme Court this morning? Several decisions came down. Which ones? Any biggies? -
Quote of the Day, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Quote of the Day: These Are Not the Laws You Are Looking For
What business does a case like that have in the courts of the United States? -
Adam Liptak, Barack Obama, Election 2012, Politics, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
SCOTUS at the SOTU: Some Historical Perspective
Tonight, as everyone knows, President Barack Obama will deliver his State of the Union address. The speech starts at 9 p.m. (Eastern time). For real-time reactions over Twitter, follow @ATLblog, @DavidLat, @ElieNYC, and @StaciZaretsky. For a post-speech wrap-up, check Above the Law, either late tonight or tomorrow morning. For Supreme Court nerds, here’s the perennial […] -
Antonin Scalia, Privacy, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
Breaking: SCOTUS Rules in Highly Anticipated GPS Tracking Case
Yesterday, the Supreme Court just handed down a unanimous ruling in one of the most closely watched cases of the year. All the justices agreed on the result, but diverged significantly in reasoning. The central issue in US v. Jones was whether attaching a GPS device to a car (i.e., allowing law enforcement 24/7 access to a person's movements), without obtaining a warrant first, violated the Fourth Amendment. What did the justices say? The ruling might surprise you.... - Sponsored
How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
Findings from the "Future of Professionals Report," based on a survey of 1,200 professionals from North and South America and the UK. -
11th Circuit, Antonin Scalia, Death Penalty, Gregory Garre, Pro Bono, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Screw-Ups, Supreme Court
Supreme Court Rules on Sullivan & Cromwell's Mailroom of Death
We've previously written about the mailroom of death at Sullivan & Cromwell. To make a long story short (read our prior posts for the full background), a mailroom mix-up at 125 Broad Street caused an Alabama death-row inmate to miss a deadline for filing an appeal. The Eleventh Circuit rejected the condemned man's attempt to reopen his case. Presumably feeling bad for what had happened, S&C appealed to the Supreme Court. Yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Maples v. Thomas. What did the high court have to say? -
9th Circuit, Benchslaps, Clerkships, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Quote of the Day, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Benchslap of the Day: Justice Alito on the Ninth Circuit
If Learned Hand’s opinions are like the products of a bespoke tailor, the opinions coming out of the Ninth Circuit are like the products of a factory that is staffed by machines and menial workers who are overseen from afar by a handful of overworked managers. — Justice Samuel Alito, in a recent speech at […] -
Asians, Copyright, Facebook, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Morning Docket, Movies, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Wall Street
Morning Docket: 10.18.11
* How can you pick a side when it comes to fairness and the law? Can you straddle the fence? Don’t ask Justice Alito, because he’s still not really sure what the answers are. [New York Times] * Paul Ceglia is finding out the hard way that court orders aren’t like annoying Facebook friend requests. […]
-
Biglaw, Celebrities, Eugene Scalia, Jane Ginsburg, Kids, Matthew McGill, Phil Alito, Samuel Alito, Summer Associates
Celebrity Summer Associate: Supreme Offspring
Last month, we asked: Who are this year's celebrity summer associates? Our next celebrity summer associate isn't super-famous in his own right (even though he's as good-looking as many a Hollywood actor). Instead, he derives his celebrity from a famous father. So who is he, and where does he work? -
Adam Liptak, Alex Kozinski, Federal Judges, Legal Ethics, Money, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justices: Accidents Happen
Are justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gods, or men? There’s evidence on both sides. Their brilliant legal minds and dazzling résumés weigh in favor of deity designation. Their ability to make mistakes suggests that they’re mere mortals. Supreme Court justices: they’re just like us! They get into accidents — as Justice Stephen Breyer did […]
Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
Are Small Firms Going Big On Legal Tech?
Sponsored
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
Document Automation For Law Firms: The Definitive Guide
-
Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Benchslaps, California, Prisons, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Stephen Reinhardt, Supreme Court
Supreme Court Upholds Order Requiring Release of Thousands of Prisoners
It’s late May, so we’re entering the home stretch of the Supreme Court Term. Over the next few weeks, the Court will be handing down opinions in the most contentious, closely divided cases. One such opinion came down today: Brown v. Plata (formerly Schwarzenegger v. Plata). In this high-profile case, a three-judge district court issued […] -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.18.11
* I was just asking myself, “What does Ben Stein think about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case?” [American Spectator via Daily Intel] * The perp walk is illegal in France. It’s not clear from this article how the French view the crip walk. [Sacramento Bee] * Carl Icahn, the Blockbuster bankruptcy, insider-trading charges, and a golden […]
-
Federal Judges, Free Speech, John Paul Stevens, Quote of the Day, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Quote of the Day: Westboro Baptist Makes for Strange Bedfellows
It might interest you to know that if I were still an active justice, I would have joined [Justice Alito’s] powerful dissent in the recent case holding that the intentional infliction of severe emotional harm is constitutionally protected speech. The case… involved a verbal assault on the private citizens attending the funeral of their son […] -
Morning Docket, Samuel Alito, Sports, Tobacco / Smoking
Morning Docket: 03.21.11
* Sammy Alito and the roots of a compassionate constitutional conservatism. By Emily Bazelon. Foreblurb by Juggalo Law. [New York Times] * A U.S. vulture fund is having problems collecting a certain debt from the Democratic Republic of Congo via certain chinamen. Yes, I know that’s not the preferred nomenclature. But these men actually do […]
-
Federal Judges, Free Speech, Rudeness, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Unless You Are a Corporation, Sam Alito Wants You to STFU
The Supreme Court just handed down its decision in the Westboro Baptist Church case, Snyder v. Phelps. The court ruled, 8-1, that the father of a slain Marine could not successfully sue the Westboro church in tort for protesting during his son’s funeral. Call it Free Speech 101. The hard part about the First Amendment […] -
Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Barack Obama, Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan, John Roberts, Politics, Reader Polls, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
Will SCOTUS Go to the SOTU This Year?
Tomorrow night, many of us will tune in to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address — hoping to catch more catfighting than on an episode of Jersey Shore. Last year’s SOTU did not disappoint drama-seekers. As you may recall, an Article II vs. Article III smackdown took place: President Obama chided the Supreme […] -
Antonin Scalia, Celebrities, Clerkships, Fabulosity, Federalist Society, Media and Journalism, Parties, Politics, Samuel Alito, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, Technology
Justice Scalia at the Federalist Society Fête
On Thursday evening, I had the great pleasure of attending the annual dinner at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention, in Washington, D.C. The event — attended by an estimated 1,400 people, and held in the cavernous ballroom at the Omni Shoreham — featured, as always, conservative and libertarian legal luminaries galore. (Did Judge Diane […]