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Kagan Will Have Little Time to Ease Into New Job


The National Law Journal
August 9, 2010

Elena Kagan won't have the luxury of easing into her new job as a Supreme Court justice. She'll be hiring law clerks and secretaries, setting up her chambers, wading into thousands of petitions and handling emergency matters -- which may soon include an appeal of a stay in the California same-sex marriage case. But Kagan's familiarity with the Court as solicitor general, and the fact that she's already immersed in the way the Court approaches cases, mean she's apt to have an easier transition than many of her predecessors.

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Stevens: The Last Common Law Justice?

The National Law Journal
April 21, 2010

Law professor Rodger D. Citron writes that the media's focus on the political implications of Justice John Paul Stevens' retirement obscures a more significant aspect of Stevens' departure: the loss of the Supreme Court's pre-eminent common law lawyer. Since his appointment to the Court in 1975, Stevens has decided cases in the manner of the quintessential common law judge: narrowly, with careful attention to the facts of the particular case and primary attention paid to the contentions of the litigants.

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