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Posted on October 19, 2011
The nomination this week of Los-Angeles-based Munger, Tolles & Olson attorney Paul Watford to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals prompted your blogger to look again at the transcript of a Supreme Court roundtable previewing the 2009 term (Daily Journal subscribers can read it via the paper’s website). At that time, yours truly was […]
Posted on October 3, 2011
From Friday’s Greenwire: Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens highlights a high-profile Endangered Species Act case about a tiny fish that delayed a reservoir project in his new memoir. The case in question is Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill, a 1978 ruling in which the court ruled that a project to build the Tellico […]
Posted on September 26, 2011
In preparing for the upcoming Supreme Court term, your blogger couldn’t help noticing that former Bush solicitor general Paul Clement and Gregory Garre are on opposite sides in one of the cases he’ll be following closely: PPL Montana v. Montana. From today’s Greenwire: When the Supreme Court hears arguments in an upcoming case on riverbed […]
Posted on June 27, 2011
A federal appeals court judge cashed in on a visit to Las Vegas last year, her 2010 financial disclosure form appears to show. Judge Catharine Haynes, a George W. Bush appointee to the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, reported “non-investment income” of $1,270 from “the Bellagio video poker jackpot,” which your blogger […]
Posted on April 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
This week’s argument in American Electric Power v. Connecticut, a high-profile climate change case at the Supreme Court on whether federal common law public nuisance claims can be used to reduce emissions from power plants, overshadowed developments in a related case that now looks to be over. Last week, as part of the massive settlement […]
Posted on April 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
The recent release of internal Solicitor General’s Office documents relating to how then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan tried to steer clear of any involvement in the debate over the legality of the federal health care reform law seems to raise one important question of timing — and luck. That’s because the documents obtained by conservative news […]
Posted on March 16, 2011 Leave a Comment
It seems U.S. District Judge John Roll, one of the victims of the Tuscon shooting, was a keen supporter of Republican-led efforts to split the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals into two smaller courts. It was no secret. Your blogger found out about it when he came upon a Wyoming Law Review article (p109) […]
Posted on March 16, 2011 Leave a Comment
When California attorney John Roos was raising lots of money for candidate Barack Obama, he probably didn’t expect that that three years later he would be a key player in the U.S. response to a massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan. But he is. As the U.S. ambassador in Tokyo, Roos is playing a prominent […]
Posted on February 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
In today’s Greenwire, your blogger reports that the Justice Department has stopped Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe from being listed as counsel of record for various amici in the upcoming American Electric Power v. Connecticut case at the Supreme Court. That’s because, as a recent DOJ employee, Tribe can’t be involved in any activity […]
Posted on February 8, 2011 Leave a Comment
Suddenly, everyone’s talking about a judicial vacancy crisis. What crisis? After the Senate took swift action yesterday to confirm three judges (see below for the names), there are now only a mere 99 vacancies. That shouldn’t be a problem, right? In other confirmation war news, Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont. apparently said in a speech that […]
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