An old pastime is trying to figure out which Justice was the principal author of a per curiam opinion. I recently speculated that Chief Justice Roberts wrote the per curiam opinion in Gonzales v.

It doesn’t take long for those who read judicial opinions to come across an unsigned, “per curiam” decision. Many decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court, federal circuit courts, and our state Supreme ...

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The decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on the state’s controversial Voter ID law has been much anticipated. So it was disappointing to see the high court punt on the issue and remand the case ...

SCOTUSBlog published my new essay, titled Invisible majorities: Counting to nine votes in per curiam cases. Here is the introduction: When the Supreme Court issues a signed opinion, each of the nine ...

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We all know that “per curiam” means “by the court.” But, to echo a 1960s hippie-type, what does “per curiam” really mean, man? What message, if any, is an appellate court conveying by issuing an ...

In 2013, three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that post-mortem photographs of Osama bin Laden could remain secret. “As the district court rightly concluded,” the ...

Petitioner, who had been disbarred for misappropriation of client funds, was not entitled to reinstatement where he failed to satisfy the requirements set forth in Pa.R.D.E. 218(c)(3). Petition for ...