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The Supreme Court is set to release DC v. Heller and two other cases this morning. The cases will be announced between 10:00am and 10:15am EST, and the opinions will be online minutes later. I’ll be posting my initial thoughts and opinions here, and I’ll be linking to others around the ‘net as they do […]

The Term Case Index for OT07 is now representative of everything the Court has handed down thus far in the term. As always, you can find it either along the top of the page or here. When the court hands down the remaining three cases from the term, I’ll post a complete statistical breakdown similar […]

Law blogs (or blawgs, if you’re a silly person) are going absolutely nuts over the impending Heller decision. Over at Volokh, the everawesome (and possibly evergreen) Professor Kerr has a post telling everyone to come back tomorrow and one commenter asks:
On what day of the term was Brown v. Board of Education released? This would […]

The Court is likely to release quite a few cases this week. There are 10 cases left in the term and the Court will release a few today and more on Wednesday or Thursday.
In case you had noticed, I am in the process of preparing the Term Case Index for the end of the term. […]

An old friend of mine gave me a call yesterday and timidly asked if he could write for the blog. Of course I told him that he was always welcome but it reminded me to make it very clear that this website has an open invitation to anyone who is interested in the Court and […]

Supreme Court news has been pretty dry for the past two weeks. The Supreme Court will begin hearing cases again on Tuesday and we can expect that it will release a few opinions in the upcoming week. Last year, the Court released five opinions during the third week in February.

Ever since I located a glorious set of old books at a friends hosue, I’ve been hankering to purchase a particular antiquarian book. I’ve been on the search for a version of Giles Duncombe’s Tryals Per Pais (1655.) I’d prefer an early edition, but I found a 4th edition printed in 1702 for $850 (here). […]

I’ve updated a lot of the information on the Term Case Index in preparation for today’s cases. I expect the Supreme Court to hand down 1-2 opinions on merit this morning but its hard to say which ones specifically. My guess: Gall for sure and maybe Kimbrough.
Regardless, the opinions that we get today will be […]

Today is the 6-month anniversary of the DailyWrit. Accordingly, if the DailyWrit were an infant, it would have just started babbling, expecting baths, and enjoying a good cuddle.
It seems like just a few days ago I was rambling about a Supreme Court-related blog post to a friend when he, presumably tired of listening to my […]

The Court today granted review in a staggering 17 cases! Just a few days ago I had anticipated 8-12 cases but apparently the Justices had other ideas in mind. In the next hour I’ll be posting serious information on each of the cases as well as updating the OT2007 Case Index.
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Its been a pretty slow month for Supreme Court junkies. The Court published the November argument calender and I’ve updated the Case Index accordingly.
I updated the Case Index Data as well. I’ve fallen in love with the terribly attractive ‘Numbers‘ spreadsheet application from Apple so I’ve included the data in the Numbers format as […]

Courtesy of SCOTUSBlog, we now have the first Orders List of the summer and the October calendar for the new term.
I’ve updated the 2007 Term Case Index and the uploaded the new data.

Well, I’ve gone quite some time without updating the software that runs the core of this site, so I’ve decided to update some of the behind-the-scenes stuff this weekend. There shouldn’t be any noticeable changes, but if you see text on the site where it normally doesn’t belong or if the search features don’t work, […]

All of the law blogs on the internet are exploding with analysis about how the 2006 term is the sign of a major revolution in Constitutional Theory that will undo a lot of the moderate-conservative work of the Rhenquist Court (1985-2005). Balkanization, SCOTUSblog, The New York Times here and here, Washington Post, Prawfsblawg, Georgetown […]

Apparently it takes an average of 92.65 days for the Supreme Court to publish an opinion. I compiled my data on the average time necessary for an opinion to be published into a single file that you can find here. Its a pretty sloppy looking excel spreadsheet but it really functions as an addendum to […]