Unpublished Opinions 10 | TikTok Law Review

John Wrench of IJ takes the reins and the show quickly descends into law review comedy hour with footnotes of puns dominating the discourse. If you have to drop a footnote, perhaps you shouldn’t make the pun in the first place? The panel then moves on to hear from Anya Bidell and . . . Justice Scalia? Yes! We play some of Nino’s greatest hits, or at least from the reading of his concurrence in NLRB v. Noel Canning (2014). Sam Gedge seems unmoved by the moving words about separation of powers and recess appointments but he is revved up about sua sponte decision making and whether it’s OK to quote from dead justices’ papers in briefs and oral arguments. (Probably not, it seems is the consensus.) Also, you’ll learn why you should care about Francesco Crispi.

A “License to Kale”

“Wake” case

Opinion readings in NLRB v. Noel Canning

Oral argument in Huffman v. Pursue (1974)

Francesco Crispi biography

Angela Merkel autobiography

A French Village

Dune: Prophesy

First Monday in October board game

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