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3 May 2019, 3:42 am by Edith Roberts
” At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag offer an initial big-picture analysis of all the oral arguments in the current term. [read post]
30 Apr 2019, 4:10 am by Edith Roberts
” At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag predict a 5-4 win for the government. [read post]
23 Apr 2019, 3:54 am by Edith Roberts
At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag write that the court “seemed considerably less inclined to allow the [Patent and Trademark Office] to prohibit swear words than to prohibit racial slurs. [read post]
2 Apr 2019, 3:59 am by Edith Roberts
At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag analyze last week’s oral arguments in partisan-gerrymandering cases , Rucho v. [read post]
26 Mar 2019, 3:27 am by Edith Roberts
At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag explain that just as, “starting in the mid-1990s, oral argument has mimicked changes in the political institutions toward extreme polarization, so too laughter, as a vehicle for judicial advocacy in the high-stakes fight for political dominance, follows that same tendency. [read post]
19 Mar 2019, 4:03 am by Edith Roberts
” At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag expand on the results of their study of laughter during Supreme Court oral arguments, concluding that “judicial humor at the Supreme Court is often very much about dominance and hierarchy. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 3:55 am by Edith Roberts
At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag discuss data from their recent paper on laughter at Supreme Court oral arguments, arguing that laughter can be used to predict case outcomes because “for the most part, the justices use courtroom humor intentionally and strategically. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 7:27 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Jacobi, Tonja and Sag, Matthew, Taking Laughter Seriously at the Supreme Court (March 9, 2019). [read post]
8 Mar 2019, 10:46 am by Howard Bashman
“Taking Laughter Seriously at the Supreme Court”: Law professors Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag — who together operate the “SCOTUS OA” blog — have posted this article online at SSRN. [read post]
7 Mar 2019, 4:12 am by Edith Roberts
” At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag predict a 6-3 win for the proponents of the Peace Cross in The American Legion v. [read post]
26 Feb 2019, 4:03 am by Edith Roberts
Briefly: At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag analyze Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s participation in her first oral argument since her return to the bench from lung surgery in December, noting that “Ginsburg certainly made her presence felt in Return Mail, but she only spoke 123 words. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 10:21 am
”Some analysis from Tonja Renée Stidhum at The Root:[T]here are clearly people who never believed Smollett from the very beginning... [read post]
5 Feb 2019, 4:20 am by Edith Roberts
” At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag analyze the “clarifying” reargument in Knick v. [read post]
30 Jan 2019, 6:30 am by Andrew Hamm
At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag analyze the recent oral argument and predict a win for the challengers in Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Association v. [read post]
22 Jan 2019, 3:50 am by Edith Roberts
At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag tell the story of how Supreme Court oral argument transcripts and audio came to be readily available, which, they observe, reflects “the sometimes-odd interaction between the very staid institution of the Supreme Court and quickly changing technology. [read post]
11 Dec 2018, 4:00 am by Edith Roberts
Briefly: At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag follow up on their previous analysis of “the implications of justices cross-referencing other justices at oral argument,” “focus[ing] on the content of those cross-references. [read post]
27 Nov 2018, 4:01 am by Edith Roberts
Briefly: At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag “begin to explore the phenomena of justice-to-justice name checking and conclude that, although there is significant variation between justices and over time, the practice is highly correlated with, and predictive of, agreement among the justices. [read post]
26 Nov 2018, 7:57 am
Said Aaron Sorkin, as quoted by Aaron Sorkin, writing about the litigation that almost thwarted his stage adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird" (The Vulture).I thanked [Tonja Carter, the executor of Harper Lee’s estate]... and told her how honored I was to be working on the material. [read post]
20 Nov 2018, 3:48 am by Edith Roberts
” At SCOTUS OA, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag maintain that “[t]he Supreme Court’s two current pending death penalty cases” “illustrate the added value of empirical analysis of oral argument over purely qualitative or impressionistic readings” in predicting case outcomes. [read post]