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Posted on September 27, 2010 Leave a Comment
In case anyone is interested, here’s the list of the cases granted so far for the 2010 term in which Justice Elena Kagan is recused, according to the Supreme Court docket (updated after Sept. 28 grants) Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting Premo v. Moore County of Los Angeles v. Humphries Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics […]
Posted on August 11, 2010 Leave a Comment
Your blogger reported in Tuesday’s Daily Journal that the White House is not close to appointing a new solicitor general to replace Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Developments since that story was reported seem to reinforce that perception. The Daily Journal story stated that acting SG Neal Katyal and White House lawyer Donald Verrrilli remain the […]
Posted on July 16, 2010 Leave a Comment
Other blogs like to highlight noteworthy Supreme Court petitions that have a good chance of being granted. Your blogger is not so high-minded. He sometimes likes to focus on the petitions that are, how to put it, a little unusual. Take Laura Solway v. Barack Obama, 09-1401, for example. This petition, on the court’s summer […]
Posted on May 18, 2010 Leave a Comment
What goes around comes around for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Back in June 2002, Kagan, then a professor at Harvard Law School and an expert on presidential power, wrote a letter to Sen. Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., giving her legal insight into a provision of what became known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The question […]
Posted on May 17, 2010 Leave a Comment
As he’s about to retire, Justice John Paul Stevens doesn’t have to worry about keeping up good relations with his colleagues on the Supreme Court. Just as well. Today, he and Justice Clarence Thomas went at it over the court’s decision to bar life without parole sentences for juveniles who commit non-homicide offenses (Graham v. […]
Posted on May 11, 2010 Leave a Comment
With Elena Kagan now in line for the Supreme Court, the Obama administration can start to think about who will replace her as solicitor general. In today’s Daily Journal (subscription required) your blogger reports on some of the leading contenders. The favorite appears to be White House lawyer Donald B. Verrilli Jr., an experienced appellate […]
Posted on May 4, 2010 Leave a Comment
Your blogger wrote this short piece on the Supreme Court front entrance closure for Architect Magazine.
Posted on May 3, 2010 Leave a Comment
The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that the public will no longer enter the building from the front entrance. From May 4, they will come in to the building through doors at the side of the main steps. They will be able to leave the building via the main entrance. This decision prompted Justice Stephen […]
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