In the “bad old days,” the D.C. Circuit was the butt of many a joke – deserved or not – about the sleep-inducing qualities of its opinions. When I was running the gauntlet of the nominations process, a White House lawyer asked me, in all seriousness, “Tom, how can you stand the thought of spending […]
At my investiture, I confessed that I had long been in awe of the judges on the D.C. Circuit who were now my colleagues. Caveat lector: Nothing changed during the fifteen years that I served alongside them. Which means that my contributions to the D.C. Circuit Review – Reviewed, a blog I read religiously while […]
Much of the commentary about the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, 141 S. Ct. 2063 (2021), has focused on its implications for labor law. Yet some of the Chief Justice’s language in the majority opinion suggests a substantial reworking of the Court’s approach to “regulatory takings”—an area that the Court has […]