After all the oral arguments, deliberations, briefs and decisions, it’s official. Drew Farmer is the winner of this year’s FantasySCOTUS competition. In this podcast, Drew discusses his methodology that led to his first-place finish.
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A mid-term check-in with FantasySCOTUS “player” {Marshall}+
We’re headed into the home stretch of the 2014-15 Supreme Court term. A good time to check in with {Marshall}+ to see how his circuits are feeling about his prospects in FantasySCOTUS. Q: {Marshall}+, good to talk with you again. First, how are you holding up? It’s a long court term and we’re already about seven months in. …
FantasySCOTUS half-time report
The 2014-15 Supreme Court term is getting into high gear, with oral arguments last week in Obergefell v. Hodges, dealing with gay marriage bans. Decisions in Obergefell and several other high-profile cases have yet to be announced. FantasySCOTUS participants still have plenty of opportunity to get their selections in before the High Court issues many …
Supreme Court, FantasySCOTUS move into high gear
Fantasy SCOTUS players, do you have your predictions in? All eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court this week as justices began hearing oral arguments today in Obergefell v. Hodges, a case dealing with same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court term still has a long ways to go. So far, 32 cases have been decided, with another …
Double Trouble: Husband and wife take on FantasySCOTUS
What could be more romantic than spending an evening predicting Supreme Court cases? Reuben and Nicole are a husband-and-wife team in this year’s FantasySCOTUS. TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR TEAM: Nicole is a university professor (both undergrad and law school). Rueben is an in-house attorney. Neither of us has a significant litigation practice. …
Fantasy SCOTUS team profile: ABBAMOUSE
Here’s our next FantasySCOTUS team profile, that Swedish-mus musculis powerhouse “outsider.” TEAM: ABBAMOUSE PREDICTOR: “I’m a Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University – Central Texas with an interest but little real training in Constitutional Law. My main area of research is military interventions in civil wars (all of them since 1816); I’ll have a book …
WestlawNext Fantasy SCOTUS tip #1 – Writs of Certioari
From time to time, we’ll provide some tips on how to use WestlawNext to research SCOTUS cases and thoroughly crush your opponents. Today’s tip involves Writs of Certiorari. There are three WestlawNext content sets that can be particularly helpful as you research SCOTUS cases. Today, we’ll look at “SCT-petition.” This is the content set that …
Fantasy SCOTUS team profile: Merlach
We will be profiling some of the teams participating in this term’s FantasySCOTUS. This week, we kick it off at the very top – the predictor who is wearing the belt (if we gave out WWE-style belts). TEAM: Merlach PREDICTOR: Jacob Berlove is a three-time consecutive FantasySCOTUS champion, which is some darn serious cred in the …
EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with {Marshall}+, the first computer algorithm for predicting Supreme Court cases
As we mentioned last week, the most interesting participant in this term’s FantasySCOTUS is a rookie – {Marshall}+. Legal Current scored an exclusive interview with the elusive and very private {Marshall]+ as he prepares to square off against some of the best Supreme Court predictors in the FantasySCOTUS tournament. The newest rookie to FantasySCOTUS gave off …
FantasySCOTUS – Rise of the Machines? Introducing {Marshall}+
The United States Supreme Court is one of the pinnacles of human wisdom and judgment. But when it comes to predicting the High Court’s decisions, can a machine do better than the wisdom of crowds? The interesting new participant in this term’s FantasySCOTUS tournament is {Marshall}+ – a sophisticated predictive algorithm that will match “his” …