December 2020

Chief Justice John Roberts issued his annual year-end report on Thursday, and the theme – perhaps unsurprisingly – was the coronavirus pandemic. Roberts paid tribute to everyone in the federal court system and the federal government who allowed the courts to carry out their work safely, but he singled out what he called the “‘first […]

I’m not broken, but I have to accept that I have a chronic, legitimate medical issue. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/YLr_JAPorWo/

We’ve appreciated your support throughout 2020. Thank you! Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/04tD-p3RDLA/

Lawyers are not normally patient people. (Surprise!) But I think this year may have slowed down the overdeveloped sense of urgency that we all have. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/iPVnQn8Xw0Q/

There’s a whole lot to unpack on here. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/AnoGJYUgVGM/

The Supreme Court on Thursday released the calendar for its February argument session, which begins on Feb. 22, 2021. Like the argument calendar for January 2021, the session is relatively light: It is slated to feature eight hours of argument over six days, but with the very real prospect that two cases will be removed […]

Spoiler alert: The state is going to win. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/QmUGeYnjqqg/

Notes to my (legal) self. Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abovethelaw/~3/N20AKZzTs6I/

Twelve days after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to proceed with a plan to change how census numbers are used to determine congressional representation, the Census Bureau confirmed that it would not meet a key year-end deadline to provide state-by-state population counts to the president. Instead, the bureau indicated on Wednesday, it aims […]

Here’s a round-up of Supreme Court-related news and commentary from around the web: My Joe Biden Story (Linda Greenhouse, The New York Times) What’s To Come For The Supreme Court (Here and Now, WBUR) The Next Big Patent Eligibility Push Is On at the Supreme Court (Scott Graham, The National Law Journal) Happy new year! […]