Judiciary FORUM ARCHIVE
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act upheld by Second Circuit By Ted Frank, 04-30-2008 Contingent Fee Lawyers Lose Case, Use Outrageous Trial Tactics, Still Get $218M in Fees By Michael Krauss, 04-16-2008 "State Judicial Selection: Once More Unto the Breach" By Walter Olson, 04-11-2008 Whelan on Posner's How Judges Think By Ted Frank, 04-04-2008 Wisconsin Supreme Court redux By Ted Frank, 04-04-2008 Wisconsin: voters halt court's leftward drift By Walter Olson, 04-02-2008 Wisconsin high court vote today By Walter Olson, 03-31-2008 Anti-business lawyers outgunned at Supreme Court? By Walter Olson, 03-20-2008 NYS Board of Elections v. Lopez Torres By Walter Olson, 03-20-2008 "Ohio's high court back on right track" By Walter Olson, 03-14-2008 Silver's pick for judicial panel By Walter Olson, 03-04-2008 Allison Engine podcast By Walter Olson, 03-03-2008 No Taxation Without Representation By Hans Bader, 02-29-2008 Sexual Harassment: A Strange, Vague "Tort" By Hans Bader, 02-28-2008 Not a "Pro-Business" Supreme Court By Hans Bader, 02-27-2008 It's Not a "Dream Court for American Business" By Hans Bader, 02-27-2008 Sexual Harassment Bait and Switch By Hans Bader, 02-26-2008 Prejudice and Double Standards in Sexual Harassment Cases By Hans Bader, 02-26-2008 State Vehicle Emissions Regulations Now Vulnerable By Hans Bader, 02-26-2008 Litigating Backwards By Hans Bader, 02-25-2008 Double Standards at Duke -- and in the Courts By Hans Bader, 02-24-2008 "The Dirty Dozen" By Walter Olson, 02-11-2008 Richard Honaker: Bush nominates ATLA member for district court By Ted Frank, 02-07-2008 Oregon Supreme Court plays chicken in Williams v. Philip Morris case By Ted Frank, 02-01-2008 New York's judge-picking methods not a federal constitutional violation By Walter Olson, 01-17-2008 Ohio Supreme Court upholds damage caps By Ted Frank, 12-28-2007 The attack on judicial seminars By Walter Olson, 12-21-2007 Best v. Taylor Machine Works By Ted Frank, 12-18-2007 Shutting down judicial travel, cont'd By Walter Olson, 12-18-2007 Judge Posner on trial management By Walter Olson, 12-13-2007 Tort reform in the third branch By Ted Frank, 12-06-2007 Shopping for Judge Weinstein? By Ted Frank, 12-03-2007 New Epstein podcast By Walter Olson, 11-10-2007 Richard Epstein in NYC Thurs. evening 11/8 By Walter Olson, 11-01-2007 Ed Whelan on Southwick By Ted Frank, 10-18-2007 "Originalism: A Quarter-Century of Debate" By Walter Olson, 10-15-2007 Frank Rich vs. Clarence Thomas By Walter Olson, 10-07-2007 N.Y. Times recusal standards By Walter Olson, 10-06-2007 Supreme Court biography, cont'd By Walter Olson, 10-02-2007 Judge Samuel Kent By Ted Frank, 09-30-2007 Justice Thomas and the rail-car coupler By Walter Olson, 09-26-2007 Toobin tag-teamed By Walter Olson, 09-24-2007 Florida district court: preemption unconstitutional under commerce clause By Ted Frank, 09-20-2007 Judge Mukasey's Chinese-asylum ruling By Walter Olson, 09-19-2007 Mississippi judicial scandal: Paul Minor sentenced to 11 years By Walter Olson, 09-09-2007 Laurence Tribe and Bernard Siegan By Walter Olson, 08-21-2007 Southwick nomination By Walter Olson, 07-30-2007 A mass movement to demand activist judges? By Walter Olson, 07-09-2007 Supreme Court's Leegin antitrust case By David Rossmiller, 06-29-2007 A new form of judicial activism? By David Rossmiller, 06-26-2007 Congratulations... By Ted Frank, 06-21-2007 "A Conference Discussing the Contributions of Judge Robert H. Bork" By Ted Frank, 06-13-2007 Slate hit piece on Leslie Southwick By Ted Frank, 06-04-2007 Presser on Thomas By James R. Copland, 04-27-2007 Judicial nominations By Ted Frank, 04-09-2007 "Do Judges Systematically Favor the Interests of the Legal Profession?" By Ted Frank, 04-03-2007 Ramseyer on judges in Japan and in the US By Ted Frank, 03-28-2007 Jan Crawford Greenburg on "judicial independence" By Ted Frank, 02-15-2007 Libertarian-leaning judges By Walter Olson, 02-12-2007 Did Lawrence v. Reed knock McConnell out of the running? By Ted Frank, 01-28-2007 "How my ex-hubby paid to be judge" By Walter Olson, 01-24-2007 Justice Thomas By Ted Frank, 01-22-2007 Alabama bar favors merit selection of judges By Walter Olson, 01-19-2007 Spitzer's Court of Appeals pick By Walter Olson, 01-17-2007 "$56,000 in Cash & Stamps For a Brooklyn Judgeship" By Walter Olson, 01-16-2007 Picking judges in Illinois By Walter Olson, 01-16-2007 ABA's conduct in Wallace nomination, cont'd By Walter Olson, 01-15-2007 Gerald Ford and impeachment By Ted Frank, 12-28-2006 Fifth Circuit vacancy By Walter Olson, 12-28-2006 "Active Liberty: A Progressive Alternative to Textualism and Originalism?" By Ted Frank, 12-21-2006 Two views on Joan Biskupic By Ted Frank, 12-20-2006 Texas politics: Fred Baron's $1.7M By Walter Olson, 12-13-2006 "Special Interest Cash Hits a Wall in Judicial Elections" By Walter Olson, 12-10-2006 "Scalia the civil libertarian?" By Walter Olson, 11-28-2006 Supposed myth of judicial activism By Walter Olson, 11-25-2006 South Dakota Judicial Accountability Movement - II By Jonathan B. Wilson, 10-18-2006 Double-standard for judicial seminars? By Ted Frank, 10-12-2006 Supreme Court clerks redux By Ted Frank, 10-06-2006 Judge Pryor on judicial independence By Ted Frank, 10-04-2006 Judicial elections and the New York Times By Ted Frank, 10-01-2006 Small-town New York justice By Ted Frank, 09-25-2006 "Activism Is in the Eye of the Ideologist" By Ted Frank, 09-11-2006 Second Circuit: NY judicial selection unconstitutional By Walter Olson, 09-07-2006 ABA says Mike Wallace "not qualified" By Walter Olson, 07-26-2006 Richard Epstein on OT 2005 By Ted Frank, 07-13-2006 Why so few female Supreme Court clerks? By Ted Frank, 07-06-2006 Spitzer, Faso, and the New York high court By Walter Olson, 06-30-2006 Two-Fer: Peer Review Discovery and Memorial Damages By Bill Childs, 06-29-2006 Tort Reform For Liberals: Judges Who Know A Little More By Bill Childs, 06-27-2006 Guest Blogger, Reporting for Duty..... By Pat Cleary, 06-12-2006 Nevada state courts By Ted Frank, 06-09-2006 ABA bias and judicial evaluations By Ted Frank, 05-09-2006 New column: "Picking Judges in New York" By Walter Olson, 05-03-2006 "The Coordinated Attack on Scalia" By Ted Frank, 04-28-2006 Scalia's Mistake By Ted Frank, 04-25-2006 Justice Scalia and which body part? By Michael Krauss, 03-27-2006 The quotable Scalia By Walter Olson, 03-17-2006 Judge resigns in Ky. fen-phen scandal By Walter Olson, 03-06-2006 Another thought on the Alito hirings By Ted Frank, 02-24-2006 Let grownups clerk By Walter Olson, 02-22-2006 Media coverage of Scalia speech By Ted Frank, 02-21-2006 Republicans and Democrats Agree By Jonathan B. Wilson, 02-13-2006 Supreme Court clerks By Ted Frank, 02-09-2006 AEI event: Scalia on Outsourcing American Law By Ted Frank, 02-08-2006 What the trial bar's up to By Walter Olson, 02-06-2006 The James Frey of the U.S. Supreme Court? By Walter Olson, 02-03-2006 More molehills made into mountains By Ted Frank, 01-28-2006 Brennan clerks impressed with Alito... By Walter Olson, 01-27-2006 Dumbest judicial ethics story ever By Walter Olson, 01-25-2006 Last-ditch effort to stop Alito By Ted Frank, 01-21-2006 Alito and LePage's II By Ted Frank, 01-20-2006 Edith Jones now Chief Judge, Fifth Circuit By Walter Olson, 01-19-2006 More on Alito and judging as judging By Ted Frank, 01-17-2006 Bainbridge, vindicated By James R. Copland, 01-17-2006 Kennedy vs. freedom of association By Walter Olson, 01-13-2006 Concerned Alumni of Princeton By Ted Frank, 01-12-2006 Alito and the dark side By Walter Olson, 01-11-2006 L'affaire Vanguard, and more on the Alito hearings By Ted Frank, 01-09-2006 "Merit-Based Judging" By Ted Frank, 01-06-2006 "Business Groups to Endorse Alito Nomination" By Ted Frank, 01-05-2006 Alito's environmental record By Walter Olson, 01-04-2006 Public Backs Alito By James R. Copland, 12-21-2005 Yale Backtracking: Calls Alito Project "Informal" By James R. Copland, 12-21-2005 For G-d, For Country, and For Yale By Michael Krauss, 12-20-2005 Save America: Close Yale Law School By James R. Copland, 12-20-2005 Leaving "Law Vegas" By Walter Olson, 12-20-2005 Stuart Taylor, Jr. on Alito press coverage By Walter Olson, 12-13-2005 Alito on antitrust By Walter Olson, 12-12-2005 How not to support Samuel Alito By Walter Olson, 12-06-2005 Speaking of slush funds By Ted Frank, 12-05-2005 Yale Law vs. Alito By Walter Olson, 12-05-2005 Law profs rate Alito -- and get a shock By Walter Olson, 12-02-2005 Alito and Warren Court reapportionment By Ted Frank, 11-21-2005 The YLS endorsement By Walter Olson, 11-16-2005 Speaking of "sloppy mischaracterizations" By Ted Frank, 11-15-2005 South Dakota Judicial Accountability Movement By Jonathan B. Wilson, 11-15-2005 Easterbrook and McGinnis on "super-precedent" By Ted Frank, 11-14-2005 Karl Rove's speech to the Federalist Society By Ted Frank, 11-14-2005 Judge Alito and the Ethics of Nina Totenberg, pt. II By Michael Krauss, 11-11-2005 Much Ado about Almost Nothing By Michael Krauss, 11-11-2005 Judge Decides the Plaintiff Needs to Win Some Cases By Michael Krauss, 11-11-2005 "Alito's libertarian streak" By Walter Olson, 11-11-2005 "Alito's World" By Walter Olson, 11-09-2005 New PoL column: "How to demonize a judge in twelve steps" By Walter Olson, 11-09-2005 Alito on free speech By Walter Olson, 11-09-2005 Judge Alito and the Ethics of Nina Totenberg By Michael Krauss, 11-06-2005 On "Bob Barr's Laws of the Universe" By Ted Frank, 11-04-2005 Alito and family/medical leave, cont'd By Walter Olson, 11-04-2005 Alito: "revenge of the nerd"? By Ted Frank, 11-04-2005 A lefty cries "BS" re Alito By Ted Frank, 11-04-2005 Twelve rules for demonizing a judicial nominee By Ted Frank, 11-04-2005 Alito: U.S. v. Rybar dissent By Ted Frank, 11-02-2005 Alito and the FMLA By Walter Olson, 11-02-2005 Sanchez vs. Alito-bashers By Walter Olson, 11-01-2005 Alito morning roundup By Walter Olson, 11-01-2005 Alito and business By Ted Frank, 11-01-2005 When smearing Court nominees... By Walter Olson, 11-01-2005 Alito rapid reaction By Walter Olson, 10-31-2005 Alito's dissent in Planned Parenthood v. Casey By Ted Frank, 10-31-2005 On Dennis Prager Show By Ted Frank, 10-31-2005 Specter and Alito By Walter Olson, 10-31-2005 Another Alito tea leaf By Ted Frank, 10-31-2005 Alito tea leaves: machine guns and the Commerce Clause By Walter Olson, 10-31-2005 AP, Reuters, CNN: It's Alito By Ted Frank, 10-31-2005 "Superprecedents" By Walter Olson, 10-31-2005 "Plagued by Missteps from the Start" By Walter Olson, 10-29-2005 Buzz By Ted Frank, 10-28-2005 Next time, a sex-blind choice By Walter Olson, 10-28-2005 Won't be disappointed if I'm wrong By Michael Krauss, 10-27-2005 Realistic options? By Ted Frank, 10-27-2005 "How to save the Bush administration" By Ted Frank, 10-27-2005 Miers withdraws By Ted Frank, 10-27-2005 Welcome Americans for Better Justice readers By Ted Frank, 10-26-2005 Wisconsin Supreme Court By Walter Olson, 10-26-2005 Miers as "pro-business" pick By Walter Olson, 10-24-2005 Miers nomination in trouble? By Ted Frank, 10-21-2005 Bork on Miers By Ted Frank, 10-19-2005 Credit where credit is due: Harriet Miers on judicial activism By Ted Frank, 10-18-2005 Miers on Texas legal-fee curbs, cont'd By Walter Olson, 10-17-2005 Miers vs Batchelder (and Boggs) By Michael Krauss, 10-15-2005 Miers: Frum's response to Scully By Ted Frank, 10-14-2005 Miers as bar-defender By Walter Olson, 10-14-2005 Hail! Hail! to Michigan By Michael DeBow, 10-13-2005 The Bush White House case for Miers By Ted Frank, 10-11-2005 "Et tu, W?" By Ted Frank, 10-11-2005 Miers and legal-fee curbs By Walter Olson, 10-11-2005 Miers on affirmative action By Walter Olson, 10-10-2005 Press coverage on Miers's wealth wrong By Ted Frank, 10-10-2005 Eight or nine things we know about her By Walter Olson, 10-10-2005 Distinction on the high court By Walter Olson, 10-09-2005 Miers paper trail By Walter Olson, 10-08-2005 Ramesh Ponnuru on Kevin Martin on Miers By Ted Frank, 10-08-2005 Colbert King on Miers By Ted Frank, 10-08-2005 Ron Cass's defense of Harriet Miers By Ted Frank, 10-08-2005 Miers as a Dallas litigator By Walter Olson, 10-07-2005 The Miers paradox By Ted Frank, 10-07-2005 Conservative views? Conceal them, please By Walter Olson, 10-07-2005 Miers' ABA involvement By Walter Olson, 10-06-2005 Picked up by L of C By Walter Olson, 10-06-2005 Forbes: Miers "good for business" By Walter Olson, 10-05-2005 Wishful thinking about Miers II By Ted Frank, 10-05-2005 Newsday column on Miers By James R. Copland, 10-04-2005 Damning with faint praise By Ted Frank, 10-04-2005 Some wishful Miers thinking By Ted Frank, 10-03-2005 Harriet Miers nomination By Ted Frank, 10-03-2005 Ninth Circuit refuses to discipline judge By Ted Frank, 10-01-2005 Judiciary Committee approves Roberts, 13-5 By Walter Olson, 09-22-2005 Thank you, Professors Epstein and Presser By James R. Copland, 09-20-2005 Shorter Russ Feingold By Walter Olson, 09-15-2005 Dumb-ass question of the day By Ted Frank, 09-14-2005 Lee Otis By Walter Olson, 09-14-2005 News flash: we agree with Judge Reinhardt By Walter Olson, 09-14-2005 Should liberals oppose Roberts? By Walter Olson, 09-13-2005 Roberts hearings underway By James R. Copland, 09-12-2005 Roberts hearings and ole' Arlen By James R. Copland, 09-12-2005 Law profs' letter opposing Roberts By Walter Olson, 09-10-2005 Business and the Roberts nomination By Walter Olson, 09-09-2005 "Snatching Defeat From The Jaws Of Victory?" By Ted Frank, 09-06-2005 The Chief Justice, Roberts, and our discussion By James R. Copland, 09-05-2005 BREAKING NEWS: Bush picks Roberts for Chief Justice slot By Ted Frank, 09-05-2005 Roberts for chief? By Walter Olson, 09-05-2005 BREAKING NEWS: Chief Justice Rehnquist dead By Ted Frank, 09-03-2005 How not to support John Roberts By Walter Olson, 09-02-2005 John Roberts and feminism By Walter Olson, 08-31-2005 Roberts, politics, and truth By James R. Copland, 08-30-2005 Toad in the hole By Walter Olson, 08-29-2005 Stevens speech and New York Times bias By Ted Frank, 08-25-2005 Heather Mac Donald on John Roberts & HLS By Walter Olson, 08-23-2005 Comparable worth and the clerks' conveyor belt By Walter Olson, 08-20-2005 A humorless attack on Roberts By Ted Frank, 08-19-2005 Presser's latest By James R. Copland, 08-19-2005 Horrors! Roberts criticized "comparable worth" By Walter Olson, 08-17-2005 Superannuated justices By Walter Olson, 08-15-2005 Unhand that French fry By Walter Olson, 08-15-2005 Roberts, fee-shifting, and the balance of sympathy By Walter Olson, 08-11-2005 Shame on NARAL By Walter Olson, 08-10-2005 Talking sense on standing By Walter Olson, 08-07-2005 Epstein and Presser, in the ring By Walter Olson, 08-05-2005 Leahy on government-lawyer privilege By Walter Olson, 08-03-2005 John Roberts and sports law By Walter Olson, 08-03-2005 Roberts and affirmative action By Walter Olson, 08-01-2005 John Roberts and employment law By Walter Olson, 08-01-2005 "A salt lick of conservatism" By Walter Olson, 08-01-2005 Constitutional Model for Questioning Judicial Nominees IV By Ted Frank, 07-30-2005 Constitutional Model for Questioning Judicial Nominees - A Response By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-30-2005 Well, that's one possibility By Walter Olson, 07-29-2005 The Court after Rehnquist By Walter Olson, 07-29-2005 Constitutional Model for Questioning Judicial Nominees - a reply By Ted Frank, 07-29-2005 Constitutional Model for Questioning Judicial Nominees By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-29-2005 Headline juxtaposition of the week By Walter Olson, 07-29-2005 Attorney-client privilege and Roberts' SG papers By Walter Olson, 07-29-2005 Posner and Silberman criticize the Supreme Court By Ted Frank, 07-28-2005 The secret handshake By Ted Frank, 07-26-2005 Inside the Beltway = reliably conservative? By Walter Olson, 07-25-2005 More on Questioning Judicial Nominees By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-25-2005 It's absurd...it's inane...it's SuperPrecedent! By Walter Olson, 07-24-2005 Dahlia Lithwick's Roberts smear By Ted Frank, 07-24-2005 Bruce Reed's Roberts smear By Ted Frank, 07-23-2005 Welcome washingtonpost.com readers By Walter Olson, 07-22-2005 Roberts and the arroyo toad By Ted Frank, 07-22-2005 Eight or nine things we know about him By Walter Olson, 07-21-2005 Separated at birth? By Ted Frank, 07-21-2005 Featured Discussion: Epstein and Presser By James R. Copland, 07-21-2005 Roberts commentary By James R. Copland, 07-21-2005 Fair Game in Judicial Confirmation Hearings By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-21-2005 The Kirkendall endorsement By Walter Olson, 07-20-2005 Roberts on business litigation By Walter Olson, 07-20-2005 Justice Ginsburg and family law By Walter Olson, 07-20-2005 More broadcast appearances By Walter Olson, 07-20-2005 Another broadcast appearance By Ted Frank, 07-20-2005 The nominee is John Roberts By Ted Frank, 07-20-2005 Edith (Joy) Clement By James R. Copland, 07-19-2005 The Rehnquist Court And Corporate America By Lyle Roberts, 07-14-2005 Continuing Supreme Court coverage By James R. Copland, 07-12-2005 Is Rehnquist Retiring? By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-08-2005 Judge Loses Seat By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-04-2005 The future of State Farm v. Campbell By James R. Copland, 07-01-2005 Extraordinary Circumstances - A Two-Fer? By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-01-2005 The stakes By James R. Copland, 07-01-2005 O'Connor retiring By James R. Copland, 07-01-2005 Justice O'Connor to Retire By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-01-2005 Supreme Court Speculations By Jonathan B. Wilson, 06-27-2005 Kelo v. New London By Ted Frank, 06-23-2005 Judicial ethics charges By Walter Olson, 06-15-2005 Update: Gordon Maag libel suit dismissed By Ted Frank, 06-10-2005 Imperial judiciary watch By Walter Olson, 06-06-2005 Activist is as activist does By Walter Olson, 05-24-2005 Judges' seminars By Walter Olson, 05-17-2005 Filibuster Update By James R. Copland, 04-28-2005 Constitution in Exile By Walter Olson, 04-18-2005 Posner on election of judges By Walter Olson, 03-15-2005 Illinois judicial recriminations By Walter Olson, 02-09-2005 Term limits for federal judges? By Ted Frank, 02-08-2005 Mississippi burning By Ted Frank, 01-28-2005 Featured Discussion underway now By James R. Copland, 01-10-2005 Final thoughts on Maag, and next month's discussion By James R. Copland, 12-24-2004 More on Maag By James R. Copland, 12-24-2004 Maag suit, pt. II: What trial lawyers think By James R. Copland, 12-23-2004 Lose an election? Sue, of course By James R. Copland, 12-21-2004 Fighting a class action? Cite Justice Gonzales By Walter Olson, 11-22-2004 Belated judicial election round-up By Michael DeBow, 11-05-2004 Cost of Maag/Karmeier race By Walter Olson, 11-05-2004 Karmeier wins in Illinois By James R. Copland, 11-03-2004 Recess appointment upheld By Michael DeBow, 10-15-2004 Strong Rule 11: judges liked it By Walter Olson, 10-04-2004 Michigan Supreme Court By Walter Olson, 09-13-2004 Underneath Their Robes: "The E! True Hollywood Story of Guido Calabresi" By James R. Copland, 08-16-2004 "Twenty Questions" for Easterbrook By Walter Olson, 08-03-2004 Rebuked asbestos judge joins asbestos advisory firm By James R. Copland, 07-30-2004 Congressmen call for Calabresi investigation By James R. Copland, 07-02-2004 New York Post calls for Calabresi's resignation By James R. Copland, 06-22-2004 Tragic Choices: Guido, what were you thinking? By James R. Copland, 06-21-2004
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