Supreme Court Nomination
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Courts, Supreme Court
Meet The 5 Finalists For President Trump's Next Supreme Court Nomination
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Justice, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
3 Ways To Fix The Supreme Court Confirmation Process
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Old People, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
On The Longevity Of Supreme Court Justices
Should we have 18-year term limits for the members of SCOTUS?
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Justice, Politics, SCOTUS
Senate Judiciary Democrats Will Delay The Gorsuch Vote One Week
The Gorsuch confirmation process has problems not of the judge's own making. -
Justice, Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Republicans Can Bust The Gorsuch Filibuster, But Can They Take What Happens Next?
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Justice, Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The Gorsuch Hearings: If This Is All The Dems Got, They Best Go Home
This is about Merrick Garland, Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump, or it's about nothing at all. -
Justice, Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The 'Frozen Truck Driver' Case Democratic Senators Are Hanging On Neil Gorsuch
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Supreme Court
Does Judge Gorsuch Have Backwards Thoughts On Working Women And Pregnancy?
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Crime, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, White-Collar Crime
The Upside To The Gorsuch Nomination
On criminal justice issues, Neil Gorsuch is a better draw for defense lawyers than Merrick Garland. -
SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The Only Gorsuch Surprise Is That Anyone Still Expects A Surprise
The media may try and gin up controversy, but there's nothing to see here. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.25.16
Ed. note: As mentioned on Wednesday, we will be publishing today, but at a reduced level. We’ll be back in full force on Monday. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
* President-elect Donald Trump will likely pick a lawyer as his nominee for Secretary of State: Rudy Giuliani (NYU Law ’68) or Mitt Romney (Harvard Law ’75). [New York Times]
* Where do broken hearts go? Some precedents for Chief Judge Merrick Garland to follow from unsuccessful Supreme Court nominees. [Associated Press via How Appealing]
* A pre-Thanksgiving ruling from the Florida Supreme Court that gave one prisoner something to be grateful for could signal more upheaval to come in the nation’s second largest death row. [BuzzFeed]
* Three more judges participated in Pennsylvania’s “Porngate” email exchanges — but it seems that Bruce Beemer, the state’s new attorney general, won’t be naming names. [ABA Journal]
* What does the future hold for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and its chief, Chicago Law grad and former SCOTUS clerk Richard Cordray? [New York Times]
* It’s not just a plot line from Suits: Reginald Taylor, accused of posing as a lawyer by stealing an attorney’s bar number, apparently delivered decent results for his clients. [The Daily Beast]
* Don’t mess with (federal judges from) Texas, Mr. President; Judge Amos Mazzant, who blocked President Obama’s proposed extension of overtime pay, isn’t the first Lone Star jurist to cause problems for the Obama Administration. [New York Times via How Appealing]
* Thinking of hitting the movies over the long weekend? Tony Mauro shares our own Harry Graff’s enthusiasm for Loving. [National Law Journal]
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Movies, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Standard Of Review: Merrick Garland, Movie Star
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Supreme Court
Merrick Garland And The Bernie Sanders Litmus Test... Is This Defensible?
Poor Judge Garland: Hillary and Bernie both suggest they'll toss him under a bus.
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.12.16
* Gauging the importance of Supreme Court decisions this Term based on media coverage. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Georgia is changing state law because UGA’s football coach thinks it might help the team cover up a scandal and somehow the legislature thinks this makes sense. [SB Nation]
* Did President Obama outthink himself on the Merrick Garland pick? [Guile Is Good]
* Using expert witnesses to defeat class certification… an emerging tradition. [The Expert Institute]
* Some graphics cross-referencing the laws around “burners” and global terrorism. [imgur]
* Restraining order be damned! Montgomery Blair Sibley is releasing D.C. Madam contacts for our viewing pleasure. [WTOP]
* What lawyer Scott Limmer learned from a yoga retreat. [Law Reboot]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 03.21.16
* Just because you showed up drunk for jury duty, it doesn’t mean you should have to go to jail for it — at least according to the Florida Supreme Court. [Daily Business Review]
* George Will on why Republicans may wind up wishing they’d confirmed Chief Judge Merrick Garland when they had the chance. [Washington Post]
* Amal Clooney, speaking at a government communications summit in the United Arab Emirates, urges governments to be vocal, consistent, principled, expedient, and transparent when dealing with human rights issues. [Yahoo News]
* High academic achievement now linked to… failure in the workplace? Well, that’s simultaneously depressing and comforting. [Law and More]
* A former U.S. State Department employee faces up to 8 years in jail for a massive phishing scheme aimed at getting young women to share nude photos. [CS Monitor]
* Check out The Merrick Garland Project by NYU Law Review. It’s a curation of select opinions written by Chief Judge Garland, organized by topic. [The Merrick Garland Project]
* The obstructed Supreme Court nomination process gets a children’s book treatment. [Slate]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 03.01.16
* It really isn’t okay that there are children that go hungry. Harvard Law student Thomas Tobin knows there is something that can be done to alleviate the problem. [Arkansas Online]
* The Supreme Court rejected requests for expedited audio in today’s two big cases: Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt and U.S. v. Texas. When are we going to be able to force them to put cameras in there and be done with it? [Fix the Court]
* Are the lawyers to blame for the giant Sharp / Foxconn deal falling through at the last second? And what can be done to salvage it? The clock is ticking and stock prices are falling. [Quartz]
* Remember a few months ago when Republican governors were all butthurt about Syrian refugees? U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ruled Indiana Governor Mike Pence was way outta line about the whole mess. [Wonkette]
* The EEOC is going after employers that discriminate on the basis of sexuality, saying such actions are banned under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. About time. [Buzzfeed]
* Looking back at one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time to understand how important filling Justice Scalia’s seat really is. [Huffington Post]
* A Sikh officer in the Army is suing, complaining his religious observations have subjected him to increased testing. [New York Times]
* For those of you who missed last week’s event at NYU Law, here’s video from “Love, Law, and… Clerkships,” featuring Professor Barry Friedman, Judge Alison Nathan (S.D.N.Y.), and our very own David Lat. [YouTube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjX6wLQmMIM&index=1&list=PLBC7DDA1DA3578169
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.26.15
* Another benchmark in the Ninth Circuit’s ongoing war against prosecutorial misconduct: a panel of judges — Kozinski, Wardlaw, and Fletcher — suggest trying prosecutors for perjury. [New York Observer]
* Lawyer and blogger Eric Turkewitz finds himself in the New York Post’s Page Six gossip column. Just what was he doing with Selena Gomez while Justin Bieber wasn’t looking? [New York Personal Injury Attorney Blog]
* Kristine Sperling left her position as a senior associate at Latham to start her own organic soap company. And, I’m assuming, an underground fight club. [Good Day Sacramento]
* Saks has finally figured out that its stance on transgendered people wasn’t winning it any friends and withdrew its filing. [Jezebel]
* The 2015 Social Media Subpoena Guide. Everything you need to know about getting all their best cookie recipes off Pinterest. [Associate’s Mind]
* Tom Petty’s lawyers “Won’t Back Down” and now he’s getting royalties for that Sam Smith song. [Consequence of Sound]
* Which law professor rules the Twitterverse? A comprehensive numerical analysis provides the answer. [Ryan Whalen]
* A new, easy to use online version of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. If you’re into that kind of thing. [Federal Rules of Civil Procedure]
* More accolades for Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link). But you already know how good it is because you already have your copy, right? [The Florida Bar Journal]