He took senior status this year.Judge Thomas came close to a nomination for the Supreme Court: President Obama interviewed him in 2010 (but chose now-Justice Elena Kagan).The most important antitrust decision he authored was the 2020 per curiam in the NCAA case (In Re NCAA Athletic Grant-in-Aid Cap Antitrust Litig.) that the Supreme Court affirmed last year under the caption of National Collegiate Athletic Assn. v. [read post]