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California, Elena Kagan, Immigration, Money, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Pornography, SCOTUS, Student Loans, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 12.13.11
* The Supreme Court will hear Obama’s challenge to Arizona’s immigration law. Upside: we can probably expect a decision by June. Downside: Lady Kaga has to sit her ass out. [New York Times] * Depressing fact of the day: unless you’re earning six times your law school’s annual tuition, you’ll probably never be able to […]
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Books, California, FDA, Food, Morning Docket, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, UVA Law, Wall Street
Morning Docket: 12.08.11
* In an unprecedented move, Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has overruled the FDA. Looks like the Obama administration thinks that Plan B will turn little girls into promiscuous prosti-tots. [Wall Street Journal] * Due to this ruling, Occupy Boston protesters will probably have to STFU and GTFO. Bring out the brooms, because this will be […]
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FDA, Hair, Morning Docket, Pictures, SCOTUS, Securities and Exchange Commission, Sentencing Law, Sex, Shoes, Supreme Court, Television, Women's Issues, You Go Girl
Morning Docket: 12.07.11
* Should the Supreme Court be forced to televise oral arguments? Yes, but only on the condition that we get spin-off shows called Wise Latina Justice and Ruthie’s Law. [WSJ Law Blog] * Rod Blagojevich won’t get leniency during sentencing. He’ll spend the next week lamenting the fact that can’t brush his beautiful hair like […]
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Affirmative Action, Education / Schools, Law Schools, Minority Issues, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
George Will's Disingenuous Idea on How SCOTUS Can Help Black People
If you want to help, help. But don't use "helping" as an excuse to further some ridiculous personal agenda. You'll just look like an idiot. You'll just look like George Will prancing around the pages of the Washington Post trying to act like he is against affirmative action because he suddenly wants the Supreme Court to step up to the plate and "help" black people.... -
Clarence Thomas, Federal Judges, Federalist Society, Free Speech, Law Schools, listserv, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas Is Coming To Town
Elie here. Imagine Santa Claus stopping by your house — except this time Saint Nick is a mute, who stuffs your stocking with personal responsibility and brings you wooden toys, because those were the only ones available when his legend was born. Well, joking aside, Justice Clarence Thomas will be stopping by Yale Law School […] -
Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Dahlia Lithwick, Election 2012, Elena Kagan, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, Health Care / Medicine, John Roberts, Paul Clement, Politics, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
A Portrait of Elena Kagan as a Young Justice
The latest issue of New York magazine contains a very interesting profile of the U.S. Supreme Court’s newest member, Justice Elena Kagan, penned by Dahlia Lithwick. Here’s the bottom-line summary of the piece (via Ezra Klein): “While Kagan is assuredly a liberal, and likely also a fan of the health-reform law, a close read of […] -
9th Circuit, Asians, Health Care / Medicine, Kasowitz Benson, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, SCOTUS, Shopping, Shopping For Others, Silicon Valley, Supreme Court, Ted Frank
Non-Sequiturs: 11.22.11
* Are Asian American lawyers too nerdy to climb the Biglaw or corporate ladder — or is this just an outdated stereotype? [The Careerist] * Does having your law school sob story featured on national television count as “employed upon graduation”? (Or, more seriously, here’s an opportunity for an unemployed law school grad.) [Inside the […] -
Airplanes / Aviation, Clarence Thomas, Eyes of the Law, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Fashion Victims Unit, Federal Judges, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court, Travel / Vacation
The Eyes of the Law: Justices Who Are Slumming It
Justices of the Supreme Court are sort of royalty -- or maybe even deities, gods, and goddesses who walk among us. Alas, it seems that two members of SCOTUS didn't get the memo. They are comporting themselves in public in ways that are inconsistent with the dignity of the Article III judiciary.... - Sponsored
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Brett Kavanaugh, Clerkships, Department of Justice, Fabulosity, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Feeder Judges, J. Harvie Wilkinson III, SCOTUS, Solicitor General's Office, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Congratulations to the 2012 Bristow Fellows
Congratulations to the 2012 Bristow Fellows, who learned of their selection earlier this month. These one-year fellowships in the U.S. Solicitor General's Office, awarded to recent law school graduates with outstanding academic records and top clerkships, are generally regarded as second only to Supreme Court clerkships in prestige. Let's take a look at the next crop of Bristow Fellows.... -
Celebrities, Drinking, Health Care / Medicine, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Money, Morning Docket, Pornography, SCOTUS, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 11.17.11
* Grassley, if you think a letter will get the SCOTUS health care arguments on TV, then you probably think the ABA is going to do something about your letters to them, too. Aww. [Blog of Legal Times] * When in doubt, get the f**k out. Take this expert advice from Judge Paul Hawkes: the […]
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Barack Obama, Brett Kavanaugh, Constitutional Law, Election 2012, Federalist Society, Health Care / Medicine, Laurence Tribe, Noah Feldman, Paul Clement, Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Supreme Court To Decide Constitutionality of Obamacare
In a development that should surprise no one, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's signature policy achievement, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act -- aka Obamacare. This means that, before the end of the current SCOTUS Term in summer 2012, the justices will rule on the validity of this sweeping legislation.... -
Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Conferences / Symposia, Federalist Society, Quote of the Day, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Quotes of the Day: Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
I really think after-dinner speeches are a barbarous institution. — Justice Antonin Scalia, in after-dinner remarks at the annual banquet of the Federalist Society, where he and Justice Clarence Thomas were honored for their respective 25 and 20 years of service on the Supreme Court. (Justice Scalia comments playfully on Justice Thomas, after the jump.) -
Abortion, Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Constitutional Law, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Health Care / Medicine, Insider Trading, Lindsay Lohan, Money, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Securities and Exchange Commission, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 11.09.11
* Yet another appeals court has has ruled that Obamacare is constitutional. Aww, can’t we wait for the other side to catch up a little before it goes to the Supreme Court? [Wall Street Journal] * How did it go for this controversial ballot initiative? As it turns out, the personhood amendment was so stupid […]
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Crime, Drugs, Privacy, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
SCOTUS Not Psyched About Idea Of Government Secretly Putting GPS Trackers On Their Cars
The Supreme Court justices were decked out in their usual black robes today for U.S. vs Jones [pdf], a case involving the question of whether police need a warrant to attach a GPS tracker to someone’s car. But given their paranoia about possible technology-enabled government intrusions on privacy, it might not have been surprising if […] -
3rd Circuit, Biglaw, Breasts, Hotties, Morning Docket, Pregnancy / Paternity, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Unemployment, Wall Street
Morning Docket: 11.04.11
* Sorry, Obama, but Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is alive, well, and doesn’t plan on retiring any time soon. No more Supreme Court appointments for you, buddy boy. [The Oval / USA Today] * Judge William Adams will not face charges over the beating of his daughter, Hillary Adams, due to the statute of limitations. […]
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5th Circuit, Abortion, California, Clarence Thomas, Law Professors, Loyola Law School, Morning Docket, New Jersey, Pregnancy / Paternity, Reality TV, Supreme Court Clerks, Trendspotting
Morning Docket: 11.02.11
* “Rising tuition. Misleading employment statistics. Inadequate skills training.” So what are legal educators doing about it? Blogging, of course. [Law School Review] * Trendspotting: cute judges on the federal bench? The Senate has confirmed Loyola Law professor Stephen Higginson for a seat on the Fifth Circuit. [National Law Journal] * People in New Jersey […]
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Education / Schools, Free Speech, Kids, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Technology
SCOTUS Denies Cert in Teen's D-Bag First Amendment Suit
It is not hard to imagine an angsty teenager, angry at her school, hitting the 'net and writing cruel words about a school employee on her blog. It's also not hard to imagine word getting back to the school, and some unpleasant consequences for the student. What just doesn't compute is how that scenario translates to a four-year legal saga culminating in an appeal to the United States Supreme Court.... -
Biglaw, Celebrities, Fabulosity, Kannon Shanmugam, Minority Issues, SCOTUS, Solicitor General's Office, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, Tim Wu, Williams & Connolly
Congratulations to the Minority 40 Under 40
Congratulations to the “Minority 40 Under 40.” This is a distinguished group of 40 minority lawyers, all under the age of 40, who have just been honored by the National Law Journal for their accomplishments within the legal profession. Let’s learn more about them. Maybe you have friends or colleagues on the list? -
Clarence Thomas, David Souter, English Grammar and Usage, John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, Reader Polls, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Grammer Pole of the Weak: Getting Possessive with SCOTUS
Welcome to the latest edition of Above the Law’s Grammer Pole of the Weak, a column where we turn questions of English grammar and usage over to our readers for discussion and debate. Last week, we found out that 52% of our readers thought it was acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition, but […] -
Paul Clement, Politics, Quote of the Day, SCOTUS, Solicitor General's Office, Supreme Court
Quote of the Day: Hey, Conservatives Are Nice People Too!
He has really run the table of conservative causes. Paul is such a good advocate and such a cheerful friend that it’s easy to forget how conservative he is. — Walter Dellinger, former acting Solicitor General during the Clinton Administration, commenting to the New York Times about Paul Clement, former Solicitor General during the Bush […]