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President Obama nominates Former Kansas Attorney General Steve Six to a seat on the 10th Circuit vacated by new Pepperdine Law Dean, Deanel...

From the ABA Journal : A lawyer for West Publishing didn’t see the humor when a federal judge hearing a motion to set aside a nearly $5.2 mi...

. . . and the 10th Circuit now has two vacancies .

Carl Tobias on filling the vacancies on the 10th Circuit .

Senator Specter urges Justice Stevens to stay on the Court for the remainder of this term because he feels that the Senate will not be able ...

From the L.A. Times : President Obama will nominate UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wedn...

The Obama administration's pace in filling the many federal court vacancies has been quite slow. As we observed back in early October, ...

In our Day 1 posting of the clerkship series , Nima conveyed NYU Law Assistant Dean Deborah Ellis' encouraging words that all is not los...

I'll be honest--I was happy to see Justice Sotomayor get the nod, and confirmation, to SCOTUS as she obviously brings many levels of di...

After a fairly long--and for us, taxing--hiatus, the team at Blackbook Legal is back in business and ready to dive into the interesting lega...

About a month ago, I shared Goutam Jois' interesting article, Stare Decisis is Cognitive Error , with our readers. Some of our commente...

Psychologically speaking, it may well be--at least according to Goutam Jois. While perusing SSRN the other day, I came across his provocativ...

George Will wrote an interesting column Thursday, describing the umpire crew's position as the judiciary branch of the diamond. Reading...