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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 2d

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...

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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 6d

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...

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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · 13d

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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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · Aug 6

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

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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · Aug 5

Somewhat ironically, the petition cites confusion over the holding in Tandon as a reason to grant the petition. “Please clean up this unreasoned mess you made!”

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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · Aug 5

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...

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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · Aug 1

On the one hand, nice. On the other hand, 🤬.

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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · Jul 24

Link to paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Breaking Kayfabe

The membership of the Supreme Court affects how it decides cases. This maxim is well accepted among the public. But it is exceedingly rare for Supreme Court opi

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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · Jul 24

RIP to Hulk Hogan, whom I learned a good bit about for “Breaking Kayfabe.” Here’s my favorite bit

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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · Jul 24

Stop carrying water for the law courts.

Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · Jul 24

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?”

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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · Jul 16

SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · Jul 16

Thanks to the Legal Theory Blog for "highly recommend[ing]" my latest article, "Breaking Kayfabe"! lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/...

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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · Jul 10

I think it depends what happens in the cases! But probably, at least sometimes, yes.

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Tommy Bennett @tommybennett.com · Jul 10

I have a paper about some related questions: bsky.app/profile/tomm...