Morning Docket: 06.28.13
* Do you think Chief Justice Roberts is the Supreme Court’s “peacemaker”? To be fair, at least he does a better job of tempering all of his judicial rage than his colleagues. [Politico] * According to...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 08.05.13
* When it comes to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate, corporate personhood only goes so far. Religious freedoms apply to human beings, not their businesses, and the Third Circuit...
View ArticleThe Benchslap Dispatches: I Pity The Fool Who Tries To Talk Over Judge Posner
Isn't this oral argument painful to listen to?
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 03.25.14
* Professor Ann Althouse’s analysis of today’s Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood arguments before SCOTUS. [Althouse] * Professor Nelson Tebbe’s take on the proceedings. [Balkinization] * Finally, a very...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 10.29.14
* “I thought it was hilarious. And I imagine my colleagues who have seen it would share that view.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has seen John Oliver’s talking Supreme Court dogs, and she totally LOLed...
View ArticleStat Of The Week: The Pill = More Women Lawyers?
In 1970, women made up 10% of first-year law students. Today, just under half of first-year law students are women. Is it because more women are using birth control pills?
View ArticleMorning Docket: 10.30.15
* "Say you'll remember me, getting groped in a nice dress..." Uh oh! This pop star seems pretty pissed! Taylor Swift has filed a countersuit against a radio DJ who sued her because he claims he was...
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 03.23.16
* The Supreme Court is behind some of the epic lines voters have experienced during the primaries. [The Nation] * Did Justice Kennedy just reveal himself to be hostile to the contraception mandate...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 03.24.16
* "If you give a judge a meeting, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk, because he is probably very thirsty from that one time you compared him to Idi Amin." In light of the stranglehold Republicans...
View ArticleMorning Docket: 03.30.16
* An odd order? Perhaps in an attempt to avoid yet another 4-4 split in a controversial case, SCOTUS justices have ordered parties on both sides of the contraceptive coverage battle in Zubik to file...
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