Appellate Advocacy Blog Weekly Roundup January 20 2017

As  we do every Friday, the Appellate Advocacy Blog 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 a quick email atDReal@Creighton.edu or a message on Twitter (@Daniel_L_Real).

Supreme Court Nomination Podcast

“Advice & Consent,” a Supreme Court Nomination Podcast, has a new podcast including some in depth discussion of the people on President-Elect Trump’s short list to fill the open Supreme Court seat.  The podcast is from a liberal perspective, but provides some good insight and information about the potential nominees that is likely of interest to appellate court watchers.  You can also follow @scotuscast on Twitter for future podcasts.

President-Elect Meets with Pryor

President-elect Trump met with Judge William Pryor, one of the judges on the short list to fill Justice Scalia’s vacant seat. ABC reported on the meeting.

The End to Chevron Deference?

The House of Representatives passed a package of bills midweek this week concerning regulatory agencies.  One of the bills combined various provisions from previous bills to repeal the “Chevron deference” standard of courts deferring to agency interpretations of statutes.  Law360 has a good overview of the news HERE.  Hat-tip to Jason Steed.

SCOTUS Considers Trademark Battle

The Supreme Court heard a trademark case this week in which an Asian-American rock group called, “The Slants,” challenges federal trademark law barring registration of marks that are disparaging to groups and individuals.  Attorneys on both sides faced heated questioning during the case.  NPR provides a summary of the argument HERE.