It looks like Chief Justice Roberts is again considering moving beyond “calling balls and strikes” as he famously stated was his job during his confirmation hearings. In yesterday’s argument, the Chief  said during an exchange with Aereo’s counsel, Malcolm Stewart, “All I’m trying to get at, and I’m not saying i’ts outcome determinative or necessarily bad, […]

I’ve just concluded reading the transcript from today’s arguments in American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo, Inc., No. 13-461. I’ve not previously commented in detail on court cases here, so I ask any readers to forgive my obvious mistakes, and to politely offer to correct them with a judicious comment. My first impression is that Justice […]

Where I live in Ohio, I am at the western edge of the 2nd Congressional District, which has a large majority of Republicans. Our representative, Brad Wenstrup, is a Tea Party supporter who defeated Jean Schmidt in the primary two years ago and had only token opposition in the general election. Congressman Wenstrup published a […]

Anything anyone has written or said on the subject since yesterday evening is simply piling on. Most general news sources are not telling us anything they haven’t already told us. Joe Scarborough leading with the story every morning simply repeats what he said the day before. He and others compare the site to a run-of-the-mill […]

There are many reasons, but his statement today provides examples of a few. My comments are enclosed in [brackets.] “The House has fought with everything it has to convince the president of the United States to engage in bipartisan negotiations aimed at addressing our country’s debt and providing fairness for the American people under ObamaCare. […]

Allow me to preface this post with the note that I am not a constitutional scholar. Although I have a J.D. and practiced law, long ago, for eight years, in constitutional matters I am not much more expert than an informed layperson. I also am a student of politics; in fact my undergraduate major was […]

John Boehner, Speaker of the House of Representatives, wants us to know that he’s angry. He insists, and apparently his House conference and right-wing media such as Fox News believe, that the President and the Senate owe it to him and his Republican colleagues to enter into negotiations over changing the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. […]

Next week, on August 27 at 3:00 P.M. EDT, the University of Cincinnati College of Law will host an all-star panel discussion to discuss the “75th Anniversary of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.” Arthur R. Miller, University Professor at New York University, and coauthor with Charles Wright of Federal Practice and Procedure, will moderate the […]

In his blog post this morning, Joe Hodnicki fires a fusillade of complaints about AALL operations, and piles on with attacks on executive board members and members of the association’s staff. [This is where I state that I am a recently seated executive board member. It is not within my duties or authority to respond […]