John Elwood, Relist Watch
John P. Elwood is a partner at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., specializing in appellate litigation and administrative law, and also teaches the University of Virginia School of Law’s Supreme Court litigation clinic. He formerly worked at Vinson & Elkins and served as senior deputy in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel from 2005 until 2009 and as an assistant to the U.S. solicitor general from 2002 until 2005.
RELIST WATCH
Dockets on maximum overdrive: seventeen new relists involving ten issues
John Elwood
January 15, 2026
RELIST WATCH
December docket dash: twenty new (likely) relists on seven issues
John Elwood
December 23, 2025
RELIST WATCH
Relist rodeo: firearm restrictions, searches incident to arrest, DNA evidence, and “clearly established” law
John Elwood
December 10, 2025
RELIST WATCH
Pipeline pay, pandemic preemption, professors’ parity, and a prisoner’s plea
John Elwood
November 20, 2025