Oral Argument 2.0

The Oral Argument Amicus

Oral Argument 2.0 serves as an Oral Argument Amicus: top legal academics, with the benefit of hindsight, provide alternate answers to a handful of questions that the justices posed during recent arguments. Oral Argument 2.0 in no way means to undermine the work of Supreme Court advocates; it aims, instead, to supplement and fortify answers to the most important and challenging queries and to offer additional perspectives. Indeed, our best responses sometimes come to mind after the opportunity to offer a rejoinder has passed—l'esprit d'escalier.

October 2020 Term

The Oral Argument 2.0 Amici offer answers to key questions in the following cases:

AMG Capital Management, LLC v. Federal Trade Commission NEW
Disgorgement, Equity, Injunctions, Remedies, Restitution
Brownback v. King
Civil Procedure, Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA), Judgment Bar
Carney v. Adams
First Amendment, Free Speech
Edwards v. Vannoy NEW
Federal Courts, Retroactivity, Unanimous Juries
FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project
Administrative Law, FCC, Media Ownership
Ford Motor Company v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court
Civil Procedure, Personal Jurisdiction, Relatedness
Fulton v. City of Philadelphia
First Amendment, Religion
Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. NEW
Copyright, Technology

Jones v. Mississippi
Eighth Amendment, Incorrigibility, Juvenile Sentencing, Life Without Parole, LWOP
Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe I NEW
Alien Tort Statute, ATS, Foreign Relations, International Law
Pereida v. Barr NEW
Categorical Approach, Immigration, INA
Pham v. Guzman Chavez NEW
Asylum, Detention, Immigration, Removal
Torres v. Madrid NEW
Deadly Force, Due Process Clause, Fourth Amendment, Search and Seizure
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service v. Sierra Club NEW
Environmental Law, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act
United States v. Arthrex, Inc. NEW
Administrative Law, appointment, inferior officer, principal officer, Removal

Contributors

Joseph Blocher Professor, Duke Law

John Blume Professor, Cornell Law

Grace Brosofsky

Grace Brosofsky J.D., Cornell Law

Erwin Chemerinsky

Erwin Chemerinsky Dean, Berkeley Law

Rodger Citron Professor, Touro Law

Sherry F. Colb Professor, Cornell Law

Laura Dooley Professor, Touro Law

Michael C. Dorf

Michael C. Dorf Professor, Cornell Law

Anthony Eliseuson

Anthony Eliseuson Litigation Director, Animal Legal Defense Fund

Michael Gerhardt

Michael Gerhardt Professor, UNC Law

Denise Gilman Professor, Texas Law

Jareb Gleckel Editor

James Grimmelmann

James Grimmelmann Professor, Cornell Law

Joanna Grossman

Joanna Grossman Professor, SMU Dedman School of Law

John Harrison Professor, UVA Law

Oona Hathaway Professor, Yale Law

Andrew Koppelman

Andrew Koppelman Professor, Northwestern Law

Leah Litman Professor, Michigan Law

Tracey Maclin Professor, BU Law

Katherine Meyer

Katherine Meyer Clinical Professor, Harvard Law School

Alan Morrison Professor, GW Law

Burt Neuborne Professor, NYU Law

Eduardo Peñalver

Eduardo Peñalver Dean, Cornell Law

Caprice Roberts

Caprice Roberts Professor, GW Law

Lawrence Sager Professor, University of Texas Law

Catherine Sandoval

Catherine Sandoval Professor, Santa Clara Law

Joshua Sealy-Harrington

Joshua Sealy-Harrington J.S.D. Candidate, Columbia Law

Kate Shaw Professor, Cardozo Law

Reva Siegel Professor, Yale Law

Christopher Slobogin

Christopher Slobogin Professor, Vanderbilt Law

Ilya Somin Professor, Antonin Scalia Law

Cristina Stella

Cristina Stella Attorney, Animal Legal Defense Fund

Nelson Tebbe Professor, Cornell Law

Gerald Torres Professor, Yale F&ES

Eugene Volokh Professor, UCLA Law