I’ve been thinking about yesterday’s post about unanimous 9-0 opinions. I think it would be interesting to see which Justices have been assigned the most 9-0 opinions either with or without concurring opinions. These numbers also include 8-0 and 7-0 decisions. Justice OT08 OT07 OT06 Total Roberts 1 5 3 9 Stevens 1 2 3 [...]

With the release of several opinions this week, the Court has now released 26 opinions for the term. Its time to take a look at some of the numbers: Opinions released: 26 Cases dismissed: 21 Oldest Case: Vanden v. Discover Bank, argued October 6, 2008 (141 day ago) Average number of days between arguments and [...]

I filed an amicus brief this morning in Ricci v. DeStefano (07-1428, 08-328.) You can find the brief here.

The Supreme Court will sit again on Monday morning for the February sitting and will likey release several opinions. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the Court has released 5-6 opinions in the first week of its February sitting over the last few years, and we have no reason to assume they won’t release [...]

Justice Ginsburg appears to be doing well after her surgery last week. The Court released the following press release: The pancreatic cancer for which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery on February 5 has been determined as TNM Stage 1 by doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. All lymph nodes proved [...]

The Supreme Court is reporting that Justice Ginsburg has undergone surgery for cancer and is expected to remain in the hospital for 7-10 days.

Above the Law is reporting that Justice Souter hasn’t hired any clerks for OT09 and suggests that it may hint towards his retirement. I think this is an example of ATL jumping the gun and overrating their skill as investigative journalists. The idea of late hiring isn’t totally unfounded though. Just last year, ATL posted [...]

I’ve been thinking about my last post about docket placement and the length of time between arguments and opinion (here). I’m curious about the effect docket placement will have one some of the important cases coming up in April. Whereas the average case takes about 92 days to come out, high-profile cases have always traditionally [...]