Adam Liptak

“Better Call Paul” is pretty brilliant.

Today’s unanimous opinion in Royal Canin, from Kagan, features the first (“Posner, J.”) parenthetical in a Supreme Court decision in five years. Lexis says there have been 33, starting in 1985.

Yale Law School Mourns the Loss of Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics George L. Priest George L. Priest, the Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics at Yale Law School, died on Dec. 17, 2024 at the age of 77.

R.I.P George Priest, a great scholar with a fine sense of humor who did what he could to teach me antitrust and products liability law.

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Supreme Court tries online lottery for public seats for arguments www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/p...

A Century-Old Law’s Aftershocks Are Still Felt at the Supreme Court In 1925, Congress let the justices choose the cases they would decide. That change “continues to prompt political contention and crisis,” a scholar argues.

Thanks to @adamliptak.bsky.social for spotlighting the 1925 law that "grant[ed] the Supreme Court an extraordinary power: to pick which cases it would decide." Honored to see my HLR article cited alongside Robert Post's truly foundational work on this topic. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/u... 🗃️

The overnight line outside SCOTUS for Wednesday’s argument in Skrmetti.