Author Archive | Todd Zywicki

A few thoughts on Alito: 1. Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, and Alito–this Court has become a powerhouse of conservative talent. The intellectual energy in the legal culture is now clearly on “the right” (broadly defined). In my Legal Times column criticizing the Miers nomination I wrote: Inspired by thinkers such as Scalia, Thomas, Robert Bork, and […]

In light of the prominence of abortion regulation issues in Judge Alito’s nomination, it is somewhat of an coincidence to see this important new paper by Jonathan Klick, “Mandatory Waiting Periods for Abortions and Female Mental Health.” Here’s the abstract: Proponents of laws requiring a waiting period before a woman can receive an abortion argue […]

The special Lochner issue of the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty is now available. My article on “Wine, Commerce, and the Constitution” (with my friend and former FTC colleague Asheesh Agarwal) is included in the issue, even though it has nothing to do with Lochner. Randy has an article as well, although his actually […]

Outstanding pick. I’ve never met the man, but from what I can tell he’s smart, experienced, and principled. I can’t imagine him not being confirmed. For once, the markets actually picked this one right too. A reminder that Larry Ribstein had a thorough post on Alito’s major business law decisions this weekend.

The Coleman Law Firm has started a new Bankruptcy Litigation Blog. Some good, high-quality posts up already–including a plea to overturn Moore v. Bay!

A reader sends along this article reporting on a $7.7 million judgment awarded to a small business owner in San Diego whose property was condemned in order to make way for a new luxury hotel. The article implies that this was an unexpectedly high award. His lawyer “called the verdict a ‘home run’ … and […]

Zogby International Polling now has a feature that they call “Interactive Polling” where you can sign up to have polls emailed to you every so often and then you can participate in the polls (I can’t imagine that they do much with them, giving the sample biases of this sort of poll). I actually think […]

Larry Ribstein has a great and thorough post on the business and commercial law jurisprudence on Judge (Justice designate(?)) Samuel Alito. He focuses on Alito in light of Intrade trends which point to him. Personally, I no longer put any faith in these markets–zero–when it comes to picking Supreme Court Justices. Here in DC, Luttig […]

For those who weren’t there, Paul Mirengoff has posted a few words summarizing my Dean Dan Polsby’s talk Friday on the Solomon Amendment case. Paul adds his own predictions about the outcome of the case and its likely aftermath: One of the many great points Dean Polsby made about the Solomon Amendment yesterday was that […]

Today the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty is running an online symposium on “Sarbanes-Oxley and the Federalization of Corporate Law.” Those participating include Robert Ahdieh, Larry Backer, Allen Ferrell, Brett McDonnell, Jeff Lipshaw, Larry E. Ribstein, and Chief Justice Steele of Delaware. Lots of good posts up already.

From The Onion: American Voices Greenspan Retiring After 18 years of service, Alan Greenspan is retiring as chairman of the Federal Reserve at the age of 79. What do you think? “He’s irreplaceable. This Bernanke guy may be an anti-inflation fiscal conservative, but you just can’t run the Fed if you’ve never screwed Ayn Rand.”

Since Orin and Eugene have re-upped the brilliant and talented Michael McConnell–who I agree would be an exceptional Justice–I will re-up Edith Jones and in the alternative, Alice Batchelder who I commented on some time ago. If the President seeks a woman, Jones remains the obviously correct choice in my book. Personally, I would be […]

CNN Reports: President Bush “reluctantly” accepts Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’s request to withdraw her nomination.

DC area readers may be interested to know that GMU Law Dean Dan Polsby will be the speaker this week at the monthly luncheon of the DC Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society, discussing the Solomon Amendment case that will be heard by the Supreme Court this term. Details: DATE: October 28, 2005 TIME: 12:00 […]

Wow–that was fast. ABJ already has a television ad up on its web site that it says will start running tomorrow on Fox News. The Washington Post also reports that the other newly-organized conservative group withdrawmiers.org (described yesterday as a “consortium of social conservative groups”), includes “includes the Eagle Forum, the Center for a Just […]