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24 Feb 2011, 8:56 am by John Elwood
(John Elwood) I see that two religion cases I’ve been watching are both on for the Supreme Court’s case conference tomorrow.Cooke v. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 6:27 am by Amanda Rice
Briefly: Here at SCOTUSblog, John Elwood reports that the Court denied cert. on Tuesday in two cases that had been relisted three times; the cases presented the question of whether the Court’s decision in Almendarez-Torres v. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 6:46 am by James Bickford
  At the Volokh Conspiracy, John Elwood looks at the restrictions on briefs that can be filed by recent government employees. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 8:32 pm by John Elwood
(John Elwood) Lawrence Hurley at Greenwire (now up on the NY Times website) is reporting that the Justice Department asked that Professor Larry Tribe’s name be stricken from the brief he filed in American Electric Power v. [read post]
25 Jan 2011, 7:18 am by Nabiha Syed
John Elwood, writing for this blog, reports on this week’s relists. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 6:34 am by Amanda Rice
” The Volokh Conspiracy’s John Elwood, Balkinization’s Jason Mazzone, ABA Journal’s Debra Weiss, and the WSJ Law Blog’s Nathan Koppel all point out that the Court is especially critical of the Ninth Circuit in Harrington: Justice Kennedy characterizes Judge Reinhardt’s opinion as exhibiting “judicial disregard for the sound and established principles that inform [the] proper issuance” of the writ. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 6:34 am by Amanda Rice
” The Volokh Conspiracy’s John Elwood, Balkinization’s Jason Mazzone, ABA Journal’s Debra Weiss, and the WSJ Law Blog’s Nathan Koppel all point out that the Court is especially critical of the Ninth Circuit in Harrington: Justice Kennedy characterizes Judge Reinhardt’s opinion as exhibiting “judicial disregard for the sound and established principles that inform [the] proper issuance” of the writ. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 10:32 am by John Elwood
(John Elwood) As an alumnus of the Ninth Circuit, Justice Kennedy has at times been particularly critical of that court when he thinks it has applied the law unreasonably. [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 11:42 am by John Elwood
(John Elwood) I posted this week’s Relist Watch over on SCOTUSBlog, which has the virtue of (more or less) built-in hyperlinks to all the relevant documents. [read post]
18 Jan 2011, 8:06 am by Kent Scheidegger
Cooke, regarding the Ninth Circuit's self-assigned additional duty as California's Parole Appeals Board, has been relisted for Friday's conference.Update:  John Elwood has this relist watch at SCOTUSblog. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 6:19 am by Adam Chandler
But John Elwood at the Volokh Conspiracy observes that only “[f]ive of the current members of the Court had unanimous debut opinions. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 2:43 pm by John Elwood
(John Elwood) Over at the Blog of the Legal Times, Tony Mauro writes of Justice Kagan’s debut opinion today in Ransom v. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 7:10 am by Nabiha Syed
And at the Volokh Conspiracy, John Elwood notes that the denial (and the dissent therefrom) came after Alderman had been relisted seven times. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 10:02 am by John Elwood
(John Elwood) I am aware of four new relists today in paid cases. [read post]
9 Jan 2011, 9:07 pm by John Elwood
(John Elwood) So Orin and Eugene blogged the motion asking Judge Reinhardt to recuse himself from the Prop 8 case; and Eugene blogged both Judge Reinhardt’s initial order denying the motion to recuse and linked the memorandum opinion in which the Judge discussed his reasons for not recusing himself. [read post]
9 Jan 2011, 1:08 pm by John Elwood
(John Elwood) As I suspected, President Obama didn’t go through with issuing a so-called “constitutional signing statement” with respect to the recent legislation placing restrictions on the transfer of detainees out of Guantanamo, through which he would have noted his constitutional objections to the legislation and construed it not to affect his authority to transfer the detainees, or stated that the legislation was unconstitutional and did not validly abrogate… [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 7:44 am by John Elwood
(John Elwood) Yesterday, the White House finally sent to the Senate the long-rumored nomination of Virginia Seitz to be Assistant Attorney General. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 2:58 pm by John Elwood
(John Elwood) I wasn’t planning on blogging the story in the print edition of today’s New York Times (p. [read post]