Every post published in August 2006, most recent first.
Linda Greenhouse has this article in today’s New York Times finding that women are “suddenly scarce among Justices’ clerks.” In the article, she cites this July post at the Volokh Conspiracy which ignited a plethora of comments and several other blog posts.
Legal activity continues in the lower courts in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June 29 ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (05-184), striking down under federal law and one part of the Geneva Convention the war crimes tribunals set up by the Pentagon at the detention camp for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Over the weekend, The Newark Star-Ledger ran this extensive story about the first months of Justice Alito’s career on the Supreme Court. David Savage of the LA Times analyzes the amicus briefs filed by the government in the upcoming school diversity cases (the full-text of the two briefs are linked to in this earlier SCOTUSblog post).
Today, we’re introducing a new feature to the blog: podcasts. Every week or two, we will record and post a 5-7 minute segment on a topic that seems amenable to a recording. A principal use of podcasts will be to have guests appear on the blog.
Akin represents the respondent in KSR v. Teleflex, which involves the proper test for deeming a patent invalid as “obvious.” August 22nd was the due date for the petitioner’s merits brief as well as amicus briefs in support of the petitioner or in support of neither party.
This is the final installment in our discussion with Jeff Rosen about his new book, The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America. For previous installments, see Part I here and Part II here. Q: Thanks for taking questions. The book was great.
Judge Posner had this editorial in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal arguing for more flexibility in the way the judiciary handles terror cases, writing that “we are boxed in by our revered 18th-century Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court.” Marty Lederman reacts to that editorial here at the Georgetown Faculty Law Blog.
The Solicitor General has filed briefs on behalf of the United States as amicus curiae supporting the petitioners in both of the Equal Protection Clause cases pending before the Court.
This is Part II of Jeff Rosen’s discussion of his new book, The Most Democratic Branch: How The Courts Serve America (for Part I, see this post from yesterday).
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday denied without comment a request to delay a federal appeals court order that threatens to shut down part of the television re-broadcast business of the DISH satellite television network.