Archive for the 'Ruth Bader Ginsburg' Category
Justice Ginsburg on the “Lighter Side of Life at the United States Supreme Court”
0 Comments Published by Kedar July 25th, 2009 in Ruth Bader GinsburgI stumbled upon a speech given by Justice Ginsburg on March 23, 2009 on the “Lighter Side of Life at the Supreme Court.” Its a pretty interesting read and, thankfully, a short one. She mentions a handful of fairly funny anecdotes about the Court, including this excerpt from her husband’s proposed canned responses to letters: [...]
Justice Ginsburg’s Speech on the Current Term
0 Comments Published by Kedar June 15th, 2009 in Court Procedure, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme CourtJustice Ginsburg gave a speech recently at the Second Circuit Judicial Conference in New York. Justice Ginsburg serves as the Justice assigned to that circuit right now and that role was put in prominent view when she issued a temporary injunction last week to block Chrysler’s takeover by Fiat for a day. Her speech can [...]
Justice Ginsburg and the Future of the Court
0 Comments Published by James March 7th, 2009 in Current Events, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Statistics, Supreme CourtOne can only hope that Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) horded the tasteless Intrade contract for “Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Be Next Justice to Depart US Supreme Court,” looking to cash in on his classy prediction that the Justice would be dead in nine months. I think everyone-except Bunning, that is–breathed a collective sigh of relief [...]
Press Release from the Court about Justice Ginsburg
0 Comments Published by Kedar February 13th, 2009 in Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme CourtJustice 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 [...]
Justice Ginsburg Hospitalized for Pancreatic Cancer
0 Comments Published by Kedar February 5th, 2009 in Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court is reporting that Justice Ginsburg has undergone surgery for cancer and is expected to remain in the hospital for 7-10 days.
October Term 2008: A Silent Term?
0 Comments Published by Kedar January 6th, 2009 in Abortion, Anthony Kennedy, Constitutional Law, Court Procedure, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme CourtMost terms of the Supreme Court go by without much publicity. The court usually hands down only one or two cases notable to make the front page of the times and another case or two worthy of the business section. In some terms, however, the Court accepts more than its usual load of high-profile cases [...]
Supreme Introductions
0 Comments Published by Kedar December 20th, 2008 in Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Clerks, Court Procedure, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court(Nearly) every majority opinion features a short introduction before it jumps into the standard I, II, III, IV, etc structure. Some Justices simply introduce the facts very briefly (Scalia), while others discuss the procedural history (Thomas), and others discuss the underlying issue in the case (Souter.) I took a look at all of the cases [...]
Footnotes in Supreme Court Opinions
0 Comments Published by Kedar December 19th, 2008 in Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Constitutional Law, Court Procedure, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, Stephen Breyer, Supreme CourtThe use footnotes has been a topic of quiet conversation around the judiciary for some time now. One group of Judges and practitioners (and an even larger percentage of students) find them to be burdensome and often unnecessary. Others think they serve as useful guides and make opinions more readable. Footnotes largely come in two [...]
Oral Argument Stats Posted
0 Comments Published by Kedar December 12th, 2008 in Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Constitutional Law, Court Procedure, David Souter, John Paul Stevens, John Roberts, Justices and Judges, Oral Arguments, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, Stephen Breyer, Supreme CourtOnce again, I’ve conjured up some charts marking how often each Justice spoke during oral arguments in the first half of the term. You can find a detailed look into my methodology here but to summarize, these numbers represent the number of times ‘JUSTICE ______’ is mentioned in the oral argument transcripts posted on the [...]
Fishing for a Story: How the Media Is Reading Too Much Into Referrals of Obama Citizenship Cases by Conservative Supreme Court Justices
5 Comments Published by James December 9th, 2008 in Antonin Scalia, Barack Obama, Blogosphere, Blogs, Clarence Thomas, Court Procedure, Current Events, David Souter, Election Law, Media, Presidential Election, Ruth Bader GinsburgOver the course of the past week, both the blogosphere and mainstream media have been spending quite a bit of time over at the Supreme Court rumor mill. There has been a lot of buzz about two cases concerned with president-elect Obama’s citizenship, Donofrio v. Wells (08A407) and Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (08A469). The applications for [...]



