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6 Aug 2018, 11:43 am by Anthony Gaughan
As the retired 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner observed in his book, Cardozo: A Study in Reputation, Hoover’s appointment of Cardozo: “was noteworthy mainly because Cardozo had already achieved such professional eminence; it was one of the few times in our history that the most qualified candidate to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court was the one actually picked for the vacancy. [read post]
2 Aug 2018, 9:37 am by Tom Smith
I saw Stiglitz grow disgusted after just a minute of unfawning questioning from Richard Posner at a Law & Econ conference and walk of the stage. [read post]
27 Jul 2018, 3:00 am by John Jenkins
This recent blog from Cooley’s Cydney Posner provides some history on the universal proxy proposal. [read post]
23 Jul 2018, 12:53 pm by scottgaille
The energy industry has increasingly found itself in the crossfires of American politics—with Democrats rallying around renewables and Republicans generally supporting fossil fuels. [read post]
20 Jul 2018, 6:49 am by Andrew Hamm
Richard Wolf of USA Today reports that even as Kavanaugh has been a “reliable conservative vote” on the D.C. [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 4:39 pm by Kevin LaCroix
The plaintiffs’ lawyers have managed to establish themselves as business transaction toll takers, and as long as the courts continue to approve disclosure-only settlements on some generalized notion that courts should encourage the resolution of cases, the courts are complicit in what Judge Richard Posner in the Walgreen decision called “no better than a racket. [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 6:26 pm by Kevin LaCroix
In August 2016, Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. [read post]
9 Jul 2018, 6:13 pm by David Kopel
"Text, history, and tradition" methodology for Second Amendment cases Judge Kavanaugh noted the controversy over gun control, and cited articles by Judges Richard Posner and J. [read post]
9 Jul 2018, 6:17 am by Larisa Vaysman
(Ben and Judge Thapar recently published an article in the Michigan Law Review on textualism in response to a book by Judge Richard Posner on legal pragmatism.) [read post]
9 Jul 2018, 2:58 am by Walter Olson
This recent Michigan Law Review piece by Judge Thapar and Benjamin Beaton, reviewing a new book by Judge Richard Posner has more on the virtues of formalism and is eminently worth reading; Highlights of Kevin Cope’s ideological scoring of the judges for the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage: likely picks other than Thapar are clustered closely together, all less conservative than Justice Alito’s Third Circuit record when he was picked; Thapar gets a more moderate… [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 6:59 am by Edith Roberts
When President Donald Trump selected his first Supreme Court nominee a year and a half ago, only one of the final four frontrunners had never served as a judge on a federal appeals court: Amul Thapar, then a district-court judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky and a favorite of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. [read post]
1 Jul 2018, 1:40 pm by Mark Graber
  By the time they left the bench, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Richard Posner were no longer Republicans. [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 7:07 am
This process of precedent-making in a common-law system resembles the construction of the literary canon as it is conceived by Harold Bloom and Richard Posner. [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 7:07 am by Christine Corcos
This process of precedent-making in a common-law system resembles the construction of the literary canon as it is conceived by Harold Bloom and Richard Posner. [read post]
21 Jun 2018, 8:25 am by Ilya Somin
In a recent Harvard Law Review article for which they surveyed forty-two federal appellate judges, Judge Richard Posner and Abbe Gluck found widespread skepticism about Chevron among both liberals and conservatives. [read post]
5 Jun 2018, 4:11 am by Edith Roberts
” Additional coverage comes from Kevin Daley at The Daily Caller, Richard Wolf for USA Today, Josh Gerstein and Renuka Rayasam at Politico, Lydia Wheeler at The Hill, and Lawrence Hurley at Reuters, who reports that the court “declined to take up the administration’s request for disciplinary action against the American Civil Liberties Union lawyers who represented the girl,” and “allowed litigation to continue in lower courts concerning other detained… [read post]
4 Jun 2018, 12:14 pm by Kevin
        Related StoriesShort-Subway-Sandwich Settlement Stupid, Says Seventh CircuitMan Who Will Never Date Again Sues Date for Cost of Movie TicketJudge Richard Posner: Cat Person  [read post]