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Appellate Advocacy Blog Weekly Roundup February 1, 2019

By Danny C. Leavitt

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Each week, the Appellate Advocacy Blog Weekly Roundup presents a few tidbits of news and Twitter posts from the past week concerning appellate advocacy. As always, if you see something during the week that you think we should be sure to include, feel free to send Dan Real a quick email at DReal@Creighton.edu or a message on Twitter @Daniel_L_Real.  You can also send emails to Danny Leavitt at Danny@tsalerno-law.com or a message on twitter @Danny_C_Leavitt. 

Supreme Court News:

  • Michael O’Donnell has this book review on Joan Biskupic’s new book about Chief Justice John Roberts. Joan is a legal analyst for CNN. 
  • Abortion providers have asked the Court to rule on an emergency stay of a state law that would leave few doctors to provide abortions. The case may be an early test for the new justices to weigh in on the issue.  The Washington Post has this report about the emergency stay. Perhaps the same approach to Second Amendment issues in front of the new Court is in play. 
  • Regarding lifetime tenure of the Court’s justices, the Washington Post has this article about the founding fathers not intending for justices to stay on the Court as long as they sometimes do.
  • Adam Feldman @AdamSFeldman has this piece at SCOTUSblog or Empirical SCOTUS about oral arguments in front of the justices in the past few months, and how to use those as evidence of what the new Court will do moving forward. 

Federal Appellate Court News and Opinions:

  • Carrissa Bryne Hessick has this post at Prawfsblog about a recent amicus brief in the Fourth Circuit. The brief urges the use of corpus linguistics in statutory interpretation, but Carrissa does not. 

Helpful tips:

  • The 2019 Justice Donald L. Corbin Appellate Symposium will be held on March 28 and 29. Find information about the link here.