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Sloppy Research at the United States Supreme Court?
Adam Liptak has an article in the Week in Review section of today’s New York Times, “The Chief Justice, Dylan and the Disappearing Double Negative.” The fun article, about music lyrics cited in...
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Draining the Morass: Ending the Jurisprudentially Unsound Unpublication System
“Draining the Morass: Ending the Jurisprudentially Unsound Unpublication System“ Marquette Law Review, Vol. 92, 2009 NSU Shepard Broad Law Center Research Paper No. 08-012 DAVID R. CLEVELAND, Nova...
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Justice Ginsburg’s Footnotes
“Justice Ginsburg’s Footnotes” New England Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2009 Boston Univ. School of Law Working Paper No. 09-12 JAY WEXLER, Boston University – School of Law In this short article...
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The Strategic Content Model of Supreme Court Opinion Writing
“The Strategic Content Model of Supreme Court Opinion Writing” YONATAN LUPU, University of California, San Diego – Department of Political Science JAMES H. FOWLER, University of California, San Diego...
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Digging up a discredited precedent
Intriguing item from the “national treasure” (called such by Rachel Maddow) SCOTUSblog: Digging up a discredited precedent Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 3:07 pm | Lyle Denniston | Sometimes, it is a mystery...
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Last days of the Law Lords
July 31, 2009 is the last day that the law lords will work at the House of Lords. The new UK Supreme Court should be up and running soon in the fall. Curiously, with the end of the House of Lords’...
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Source of Information or ‘Dog and Pony Show’?: Judicial Information Seeking...
Source of Information or ‘Dog and Pony Show’?: Judicial Information Seeking During U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument, 1963-1965 & 2004-2009 by James Cleith Phillips (University of California,...
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The supremely expensive Supreme Court Reporter Advance Sheets Service
Our friend Carl Malamud just sent out a tweet: If law librarians remain content to be purchasing agents, law libraries will die. *do* something! talk is easy, action requires effort. Carl’s tweet...
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California’s Prop. 8 in Federal Court: Key Timeline, Briefs, and Opinions...
On July 30, 2012, California Proposition 8 proponents petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari. In Hollingsworth v. Perry, petitioners (the original “Defendant-Intervenors”) ask the...
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Kudos for SCOTUSblog updates
SCOTUSblog’s e-mail updates have been pretty helpful this October Term! We just started using them to track a few merits cases for which the filings have been fairly slow to appear on Bloomberg Law...
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