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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Monday morning read:
Supreme Court did not disclose financial relationship with expert brought in to review leak probe (Joan Biskupic, CNN)
What happens if the Supreme Court strikes down student loan forgiveness? Here are 3 predictions (Annie Nova, CNBC)
Supreme Court Notebook: Warren is 5th justice with Navy ship (Mark Sherman, Associated Press)
The Black-Jackson Feud (Steve Vladeck, One First)
Why Does Justice Kavanaugh Write Concurrences? (Josh Black ..read more
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In an essay published in The New York Times this fall, two law professors, Lisa Tucker and Stefanie Lindquist, argued that the Supreme Court is increasingly setting aside significant decisions from the lower courts as if they never happened. The court is invalidating these decisions in brief procedural orders under what’s known as “Munsingwear vacatur.” Amy sits down with Tucker and Lindquist to hear more about the trend.
Send us a question about the court at scotustalk@scotusblog.com or leave us a voicemail at (202) 596-2906. Please tell us your first name and where you’re calling from ..read more
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The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.
Two years ago, the court ruled that medical device maker Arthrex, Inc., was wronged when the government made a final decision on a dispute over one of its patents by a panel of internally appointed officials. The justices held that the Constitution requires reviewability by a more senior patent officer appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to con ..read more
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.
Here’s the Friday morning read:
Kavanaugh says he’s ‘optimistic’ about the Supreme Court and trashes US News law school rankings (Ariane de Vogue & Devan Cole, CNN)
The New Kavanaugh Documentary Changes Nothing (Dahlia Lithwick, Slate)
When the chief justice himself was the Supreme Court leak (Jeffrey Boutwell, The Baltimore Sun)
The “Special Treatment” Supreme Court Justices Got Durin ..read more
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When ChatGPT, a cutting-edge artificial-intelligence chatbot, launched in November, it captured the attention of the legal community.
Some lawyers worried that the program — which can generate eerily human-sounding text in response to complex written prompts — would make them obsolete. Law professors discovered that the bot can pass their exams. One CEO offered $1 million to any Supreme Court litigator willing to let ChatGPT argue their case (a prospect both ethically dubious and physically impossible).
Naturally, here at SCOTUSblog, we began to wonder about our own risk of A.I. displac ..read more
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4d ago
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.
Here’s the Thursday morning read:
Two Supreme Court Cases That Could Break the Internet (Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker)
Supreme Court Punt in Tax Fine Case Leaves Uncertainty in Wake (Lydia Wheeler & Jeffery Leon, Bloomberg Law)
Bipartisan Supreme Court Reform Is Not a Pipe Dream (Simon Lazarus, The New Republic)
Oil industry takes offshore fracking case to Supreme Court (Niina H ..read more
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5d ago
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.
Here’s the Wednesday morning read:
Americans Like the Supreme Court More, But Still Not That Much (Greg Stohr, Bloomberg Law)
Navy christens massive ship bearing name of legendary Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren (Gary Robbins, The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Student Loan Forgiveness: Will Comments on Dept. of Ed Website Opposing Biden’s Plan Impact the Supreme Court’s Decision? (Vance ..read more
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After the oral argument in In re Grand Jury, the smart money would have predicted either that the court would affirm the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit or dismiss the case as improvidently granted. On Monday, it dismissed. In fact, one might be left wondering why the court agreed to hear the case in the first place. Yet the dismissal – known as a “DIG” – does not mean that the court has lost interest in the issue raised, only that the facts of the case were not the right vehicle for exploring it.
The case invited the court to answer a simple but recurrent question: When a cli ..read more
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6d ago
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.
Here’s the Tuesday morning read:
Supreme Court finally issues first ruling of term (Lawrence Hurley, NBC News)
U.S. Supreme Court’s Gorsuch in dissent calls $2.17 mln tax penalty excessive (Nate Raymond, Reuters)
It’s Not Your Imagination — The Supreme Court is Less Efficient (Adam Feldman, Empirical SCOTUS)
What Power Does Amid Uncertainty (Dahlia Lithwick, Slate)
Bathroom Bans for Transg ..read more
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The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Biden administration for its views on a pair of controversial social-media laws enacted in Texas and Florida. Passed in response to beliefs that social-media platforms were censoring their users, particularly those expressing conservative political views, both states’ laws seek to regulate the content-moderation policies of social-media companies like Facebook and Twitter.
The justices asked the solicitor general to weigh in on NetChoice v. Paxton (a pending petition on the Texas law) and NetChoice v. Moody and Moody v. NetChoice (two pending petiti ..read more