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Today in New Orleans

Today in New Orleans: On my second day here, I finally gave in to the temptation to visit the John Minor Wisdom U.S. Court of Appeals Building.

In addition to visiting the three courtrooms on the second floor -- including the en banc courtroom containing seats for seventeen judges at the bench -- I visited the court's library, where the librarian in charge gave me a complimentary copy of "A History of the Fifth Circuit 1891-1981" by law professor Harvey C. Couch.

My wife took some interesting photos of the outside of the building, which I'll try to post online after I return home.

This afternoon's symposium event at Loyola Law School was much fun. It was great to finally meet both Jerry Goldman, founder of the amazing "Oyez" site, and Ernest Svenson of "Ernie the Attorney" fame.

It was also very interesting to hear professor Timothy R Johnson of the University of Minnesota speak about a project he is currently working on with two other professors to study how often each of the nine Justices serving on the U.S. Supreme Court interrupt, or get interrupted by, each other during oral argument. One of the study's least surprising findings is that Justice Clarence Thomas isn't doing much interrupting of his colleagues, nor is he being interrupted often by his colleagues, at oral argument.

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).