Congratulations!

A big congratulations to Prof. Imre Szalai and his students!! The amicus brief filed by Prof. Szalai was quoted by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a recent dissenting opinion.

DirecTV, Inc. v. Imburgia, No. 14-462, slip opinion at 5 n.1 (U.S. Dec. 14, 2015) (Ginsburg, J., dissenting). The opinion can be found online at: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/14-462_2co3.pdf.

Brief for Law Professors as Amici Curiae Supporting Respondents, DirecTV, Inc. v. Imburgia, No. 14-462 (U.S. July 24, 2015). The full brief can be found on Bloomberg Law.

Sandra Day O’Connor, The Supreme Court, and Laughter

Today’s New York Times has a review of former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s latest book, Out of Order. The Times reviewer noted the many things covered in this compendium of Supreme Court miscellany included humor at the Supreme Court and that “[a] law professor’s 2005 study of “laughter episodes instigated,” she notes, suggested that Antonin Scalia was the funniest justice, with Stephen Breyer coming in a faraway second.”

How Many Laws Has the Supreme Court Declared Unconstitutional?

The Supreme Court’s role in judging the constitutionality of Acts of Congress has been in the news this week, so an obvious question is: Just how many laws has the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional? Google that and you’ll get some good answers, including the top hit, from WikiAnswers:



But these answers don’t provide the full citation to a source you can cite, just a vague reference to where the answers came from, the Congressional Research Service.