John Elwood
John P. Elwood is a partner at Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., specializing in appellate litigation and administrative law, and also teaches the University of Virginia School of Law’s Supreme Court litigation clinic. He formerly worked at Vinson & Elkins and served as senior deputy in the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel from 2005 until 2009 and as an assistant to the U.S. solicitor general from 2002 until 2005.
Seven relists walk into a bar
Since our last post, the Supreme Court has been busy pruning the relist garden.
“Universal” pre-K causes court to re-re-reconsider major religious precedent
Since our last post, the Supreme Court has done a bit of spring cleaning of the relist rolls.
Veterans benefits: a consensus candidate for cert
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. It was a relatively quiet week at the relist window – just one grant, one denial, one apparent hold, and one new relist.
Brady violations, child abduction, qualified immunity, and confessions of error
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. This week, the Supreme Court started thinning the relist herd.