Adam Liptak
@adamliptak.bsky.social
I cover the Supreme Court for The New York Times.
“Better Call Paul” is pretty brilliant.
When it figured Donald Trump was coming for it, WilmerHale had a "Better Call Paul" moment.
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The Conservative Lawyer Defending a Firm from Donald Trump
Paul Clement complained that Big Law was becoming “increasingly woke.” Now he’s defending one firm’s right to do just that.
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April 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“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.
January 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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.
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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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.
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December 30, 2024 at 2:08 AM
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.
law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
Supreme Court tries online lottery for public seats for arguments www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/p...
Press Release of Supreme Court of the United State
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December 12, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Supreme Court tries online lottery for public seats for arguments www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/p...
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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... 🗃️
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.
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December 9, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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... 🗃️
Reposted by Adam Liptak
The overnight line outside SCOTUS for Wednesday’s argument in Skrmetti.
December 4, 2024 at 2:39 AM
The overnight line outside SCOTUS for Wednesday’s argument in Skrmetti.