Supreme Speculation: Who Will Obama Nominate to Replace John Paul Stevens?
For weeks, the media laundry machine has been circulating news of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens’s impending retirement. Now that the buzzer has gone off on that, it’s time to switch to the...
View ArticleFantasySCOTUS Predictions of the Next Justice: Team Kagan v. Team Wood v....
Who will replace Justice John Paul Stevens? While pundits, savants, and oracles across the SCOTUSphere pontificate and read Article III tea leaves, FantasySCOTUS.net conducted extensive and detailed...
View ArticleJudicial Sight-ations: Justice Stevens, and Several Potential Successors, in...
For Article III groupies, the InterContinental Hotel in Chicago was the place to be last night. The annual meeting of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association and Judicial Conference of the Seventh Circuit...
View ArticleSCOTUS Speculation: Could It Be Wood?Ten reasons Obama might appoint Diane Wood.
Now that President Obama has interviewed the four finalists for the U.S. Supreme Court seat he has to fill — Judge Merrick Garland (D.C. Cir.), Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Judge Sidney Thomas (9th...
View ArticleWearing Peep-Toe Shoes to Court? Women Judges Weigh In
Earlier today, on the Senate floor, debate took place on whether to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation’s 112th Supreme Court justice. The Kagan nomination is not very controversial,...
View ArticleJudge of the Day: Rudolph Randa
It’s hard out here for an immigrant. Arizona has immigrants in the crosshairs, as we all know. Immigrants might also be unable to clerk for federal judges (or at least get paid for it). And when they...
View ArticleWho Will Obama Nominate To Replace Scalia — A Gambler’s Guide
We place odds on the potential nominees for Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat.
View ArticleJudge Frank Easterbrook Has Had It With These Damn Rats
Setting a trap for the rats infesting his docket.
View ArticleA Federal Judge’s Rather Rude Joke About Lesbians
The Seventh Circuit, sitting en banc, delves into... lesbianism.
View ArticleA Judicial Battle Royal At The Seventh Circuit — And Judge Posner’s Favorite...
SCOTUS shortlisters and other luminaries of the federal judiciary duke it out in a landmark case.
View ArticleNon-Sequiturs: 07.12.17
* The allegations about Marc Kasowitz's drinking problem might be salacious, but the issue of alcohol abuse by lawyers is serious. [Law.com] * Fun for legal nerds everywhere: Chief Judge Diane Wood...
View ArticleJudge Posner, Uncensored: ‘I Don’t Really Care What People Think’
The recently retired Richard Posner has lost none of his famous candor.
View ArticleThe Seventh Circuit Responds To Judge Richard Posner
Chief Judge Diane Wood disputes Judge Richard Posner's claims about pro se litigants and cameras in the courtroom.
View ArticleWearing Peep-Toe Shoes to Court? Women Judges Weigh In
Earlier today, on the Senate floor, debate took place on whether to confirm Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation’s 112th Supreme Court justice. The Kagan nomination is not very controversial,...
View ArticleJudge of the Day: Rudolph Randa
It’s hard out here for an immigrant. Arizona has immigrants in the crosshairs, as we all know. Immigrants might also be unable to clerk for federal judges (or at least get paid for it). And when they...
View ArticleWho Will Obama Nominate To Replace Scalia — A Gambler’s Guide
We place odds on the potential nominees for Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat.
View ArticleJudge Frank Easterbrook Has Had It With These Damn Rats
Setting a trap for the rats infesting his docket.
View ArticleA Federal Judge’s Rather Rude Joke About Lesbians
The Seventh Circuit, sitting en banc, delves into... lesbianism.
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