Tommy Bennett
@tommybennett.com
Civ pro, fed cts, con law. Also: baseball, charts, trivia. https://tommybennett.com/
Cool but nerdy legal tech development: @free.law launched natural-language search in its vast and powerful case law API! Can’t wait to dig in and see what it can do. Full announcement here: free.law/2025/11/05/s...
November 5, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Cool but nerdy legal tech development: @free.law launched natural-language search in its vast and powerful case law API! Can’t wait to dig in and see what it can do. Full announcement here: free.law/2025/11/05/s...
Jeffrey Kessler has filed a petition for certiorari asking the Supreme Court to overrule baseball's "antitrust exemption." The case arises in the somewhat unusual context of Puerto Rico's professional baseball league. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Jeffrey Kessler has filed a petition for certiorari asking the Supreme Court to overrule baseball's "antitrust exemption." The case arises in the somewhat unusual context of Puerto Rico's professional baseball league. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
Fascinating takings clause petition granted today by the Supreme Court. No amicus briefs, no relists, counsel without any SCOTUS arguments to date, interesting issue. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
October 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Fascinating takings clause petition granted today by the Supreme Court. No amicus briefs, no relists, counsel without any SCOTUS arguments to date, interesting issue. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
Interesting cert petition filed by Lehotsky Keller and First Liberty Institute asks the Supreme Court to overrule Employment Division v. Smith www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
August 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Interesting cert petition filed by Lehotsky Keller and First Liberty Institute asks the Supreme Court to overrule Employment Division v. Smith www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
On the one hand, nice. On the other hand, 🤬.
August 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
On the one hand, nice. On the other hand, 🤬.
RIP to Hulk Hogan, whom I learned a good bit about for “Breaking Kayfabe.” Here’s my favorite bit
July 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
RIP to Hulk Hogan, whom I learned a good bit about for “Breaking Kayfabe.” Here’s my favorite bit
Abstract and SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
July 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Abstract and SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"What two or three suggestions would you make to improve this course in the future?" 🦅
July 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"What two or three suggestions would you make to improve this course in the future?" 🦅
For reasons I'll make public soon, I have been tracking newly filed petitions for certiorari at the Supreme Court. Yesterday—July 1—the Court began assigning docket numbers beginning "25-" instead of "24-" Look who filed (first one is with the Stanford Clinic). What do they know?
July 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
For reasons I'll make public soon, I have been tracking newly filed petitions for certiorari at the Supreme Court. Yesterday—July 1—the Court began assigning docket numbers beginning "25-" instead of "24-" Look who filed (first one is with the Stanford Clinic). What do they know?
This has always struck be as odd in light of Supreme Court Rule 3
July 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This has always struck be as odd in light of Supreme Court Rule 3
The executive branch has asked the Supreme Court to answer this question: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
June 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The executive branch has asked the Supreme Court to answer this question: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
The CASA majority (per Justice Barrett) had some strong words for Justice Jackson:
June 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The CASA majority (per Justice Barrett) had some strong words for Justice Jackson:
I love a Justice Barrett opinion. I do. But isn't this topic sentence entirely undermined by the remainder of this paragraph?
June 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I love a Justice Barrett opinion. I do. But isn't this topic sentence entirely undermined by the remainder of this paragraph?
Article III gang, fear not: we live to fight another day
June 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Article III gang, fear not: we live to fight another day
And to be clear it looks like they said _five_ different confusing and unworkable things
June 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
And to be clear it looks like they said _five_ different confusing and unworkable things
Pretty brutal typo right out of the gate (from the syllabus):
June 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Pretty brutal typo right out of the gate (from the syllabus):
When e-filing goes wrong www.nytimes.com/athletic/641...
June 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
When e-filing goes wrong www.nytimes.com/athletic/641...
The loss of Justice Souter is a moment to celebrate what a tremendous public servant he was. And I’ve always loved what a quirky Yankee he was. Like how he had to move out his phoneless farmhouse because it was collapsing under the weight of his books. 👑
May 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The loss of Justice Souter is a moment to celebrate what a tremendous public servant he was. And I’ve always loved what a quirky Yankee he was. Like how he had to move out his phoneless farmhouse because it was collapsing under the weight of his books. 👑
My computer is very supportive during this trying period of grading
May 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My computer is very supportive during this trying period of grading
Here's _every_ 40+ game score since 2001-02. It's becoming a lot more common.
May 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Here's _every_ 40+ game score since 2001-02. It's becoming a lot more common.
Here's a half-way interesting fact I learned today. The best single-game NBA performances each season are getting better over time. The biggest outliers are getting bigger. #rstats
May 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Here's a half-way interesting fact I learned today. The best single-game NBA performances each season are getting better over time. The biggest outliers are getting bigger. #rstats
Ask yourself why your state’s judiciary’s swag bags for kids aren’t as good as Maryland. Call your representative today.
April 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ask yourself why your state’s judiciary’s swag bags for kids aren’t as good as Maryland. Call your representative today.
Reading about the common law in the early Oregon Territory. Obviously it's wild that they had a big fight about which book had the right law. But if both books were blue, why did they refer to them by their color at all??
April 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Reading about the common law in the early Oregon Territory. Obviously it's wild that they had a big fight about which book had the right law. But if both books were blue, why did they refer to them by their color at all??
So nice of the communications team to compile the definitive set of images of me gesticulating wildly
April 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
So nice of the communications team to compile the definitive set of images of me gesticulating wildly