Dan Epps
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Welcome to Divided Argument, an unscheduled, unpredictable Supreme Court podcast. I'm Will Bode.
Welcome to Divided Argument, an unscheduled, unpredictable Supreme Court podcast. I'm Will Bode.
Well, it's also, you know, it's our first... non-live show in a while like a true back in the studio i think of it such as it is yeah in our respective studios also known as our faculty offices yes you should demand a separate studio and like the the adjoining office there was an earlier time when the law school was actually thinking of creating a podcast studio in one of the
Well, it's also, you know, it's our first... non-live show in a while like a true back in the studio i think of it such as it is yeah in our respective studios also known as our faculty offices yes you should demand a separate studio and like the the adjoining office there was an earlier time when the law school was actually thinking of creating a podcast studio in one of the
room somewhere in the before they realized that the technology was simple enough that with a minor investment you can just do it in your office yeah i think mic qualities have also increased there was a time when i will be trying to put styrofoam padding or whatever around my office trying to stop the echoes just because you hadn't talked to me and gotten my my advice about what to buy my quality has always been good you just needed to know what to get okay
room somewhere in the before they realized that the technology was simple enough that with a minor investment you can just do it in your office yeah i think mic qualities have also increased there was a time when i will be trying to put styrofoam padding or whatever around my office trying to stop the echoes just because you hadn't talked to me and gotten my my advice about what to buy my quality has always been good you just needed to know what to get okay
Right. Summary reversals are when the court gets a cert petition, and then rather than scheduling oral argument and full briefing on the cert petition, they're like, nah, we've seen enough. They just reverse the opinion right there. When I wrote the article on the shadow docket, half my article was about the Supreme Court's summary reversals.
Right. Summary reversals are when the court gets a cert petition, and then rather than scheduling oral argument and full briefing on the cert petition, they're like, nah, we've seen enough. They just reverse the opinion right there. When I wrote the article on the shadow docket, half my article was about the Supreme Court's summary reversals.
Yeah. I mean, I was both defending the idea of summary reversals, because there were some people who thought it was just inappropriate. But then it sort of highlighted this idea that the court was engaged in error correction, but in a kind of... you know, hard to chart way, or at least part of what I did in the article is try to chart. Okay.
Yeah. I mean, I was both defending the idea of summary reversals, because there were some people who thought it was just inappropriate. But then it sort of highlighted this idea that the court was engaged in error correction, but in a kind of... you know, hard to chart way, or at least part of what I did in the article is try to chart. Okay.
You can now see like the EDPA docket is half of the summary reversal docket. And that makes sense. And then other things were harder to figure out.
You can now see like the EDPA docket is half of the summary reversal docket. And that makes sense. And then other things were harder to figure out.
Yeah, they're down to like one a year from like four to six a year. It's got to be real embarrassing if you're the judge who gets the one summary reversal of your decision. I don't know. I mean, we have these judges come through Chicago all the time, and sometimes I ask them, do they care about being reversed? And they almost always say no. Maybe that's just what you're supposed to say.
Yeah, they're down to like one a year from like four to six a year. It's got to be real embarrassing if you're the judge who gets the one summary reversal of your decision. I don't know. I mean, we have these judges come through Chicago all the time, and sometimes I ask them, do they care about being reversed? And they almost always say no. Maybe that's just what you're supposed to say.