“Better Call Paul” is pretty brilliant.

Today’s unanimous opinion in Royal Canin, from Kagan, features the first (“Posner, J.”) parenthetical in a Supreme Court decision in five years. Lexis says there have been 33, starting in 1985.

R.I.P George Priest, a great scholar with a fine sense of humor who did what he could to teach me antitrust and products liability law. law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...

Supreme Court tries online lottery for public seats for arguments www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/p...

Thanks to @adamliptak.bsky.social for spotlighting the 1925 law that "grant[ed] the Supreme Court an extraordinary power: to pick which cases it would decide." Honored to see my HLR article cited alongside Robert Post's truly foundational work on this topic. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/u... 🗃️

The overnight line outside SCOTUS for Wednesday’s argument in Skrmetti.