Here's some backtesting of supremecourt.report 's new and updated cert grant probability model. Darker dots are grants, lighter dots are denials. Log scale.
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I'm happy to announce a new resource for Supreme Court watchers: supremecourt.report. Read on for more 🧵
Supreme Court Report
Every case the Supreme Court is asked to hear, what it asks, and the odds it is granted — rebuilt three times a day from the Court's own docket.
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I don't know if we should abandon SSRN for an alternative. But I do know that it's now essentially trivial to make a replacement, because I made one in an afternoon.
I try to teach my classes such that, even when they are vacationing across Europe in the summer, my students cannot escape thinking about National Pork Producers Council v. Ross.
CourtListener is now available inside Claude as a new MCP Connector. Here's what that means and why it matters. 👇 free.law/2026/05/12/c...
AI Tools and Assistants such as Claude Can Now Connect to CourtListener's Full Functionality
CourtListener is now available as a new MCP Connector inside Claude and other AI assistants, giving AI agents native access to the full power of CourtListener — case law, PACER data, citation analysis...
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Once again the world has turned, and baseball is back. To mark the occasion, here is my favorite literary quotation about baseball, from DeLillo's "Mao II"
Do you want to see the new filings at the Supreme Court each day? I built a tool to do just that. s2.smu.edu/~tbbennett/d...
Cool but nerdy legal tech development: @free.law launched natural-language search in its vast and powerful case law API! Can’t wait to dig in and see what it can do. Full announcement here: free.law/2025/11/05/s...
Here's a little preview of something I've been working on: a dashboard of the new Supreme Court petitions and applications filed each day. s2.smu.edu/~tbbennett/d...
Jeffrey Kessler has filed a petition for certiorari asking the Supreme Court to overrule baseball's "antitrust exemption." The case arises in the somewhat unusual context of Puerto Rico's professional baseball league. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
Fascinating takings clause petition granted today by the Supreme Court. No amicus briefs, no relists, counsel without any SCOTUS arguments to date, interesting issue. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
Most law schools have substantially increased the median LSAT and UGPA scores of their incoming classes in the last decade. s2.smu.edu/~tbbennett/a...
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Listening to the tariff oral argument from last week and my main reaction is that we need to deploy the nation’s strategic podcast-producer reserve to the Federal Circuit
Interesting cert petition filed by Lehotsky Keller and First Liberty Institute asks the Supreme Court to overrule Employment Division v. Smith www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
RIP to Hulk Hogan, whom I learned a good bit about for “Breaking Kayfabe.” Here’s my favorite bit
A good bit of commentary on the exercise of equitable power has the flavor of, “ugh, isn’t it lawless how this whole area lacks hard rules and focuses on difficult judgments of fairness?”
Thanks to the Legal Theory Blog for "highly recommend[ing]" my latest article, "Breaking Kayfabe"! lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/...
Hi, friends. I'd like to share a new-ish paper that I'm delighted to have in print. It's called "Breaking Kayfabe," and it's about what professional wrestling can teach us about Supreme Court opinions. I'd be grateful if you gave it some time!
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"What two or three suggestions would you make to improve this course in the future?" 🦅
Oh god! It's happening!!! THE HECK BAR RECKONING IS HAPPENING!!!!!!!!
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Tommy Bennett@tommybennett.com · last yr.Today from the Supreme Court: two new cases about trans athletes, a new case about the scope of the Heck v. Humphrey bar, and a case about sovereign immunity and Hyatt v. FTB. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
Today from the Supreme Court: two new cases about trans athletes, a new case about the scope of the Heck v. Humphrey bar, and a case about sovereign immunity and Hyatt v. FTB. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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For reasons I'll make public soon, I have been tracking newly filed petitions for certiorari at the Supreme Court. Yesterday—July 1—the Court began assigning docket numbers beginning "25-" instead of "24-" Look who filed (first one is with the Stanford Clinic). What do they know?
Today, July 1, is the official beginning of the Supreme Court's 2025 term. Beginning today, docket numbers of new cases begin "25-" or "25A." Here is auspicious 25-1: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
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The executive branch has asked the Supreme Court to answer this question: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
There's a compelling version of a course in Federal Courts that teaches the opinions in CASA on day 1, focusing on dispute resolution vs. law declaration, the Judiciary Act, and the role of Congress.
The CASA majority (per Justice Barrett) had some strong words for Justice Jackson:
