Tommy Bennett

The attorneys most successful at winning certiorari for a private client, OT2017-25 supremecourt.report/counsel/

The interim docket is hotter than ever this term so far

Interim (shadow) docket dashboard is now live on supremecourt.report: supremecourt.report/applications/

SG asks the Supreme Court to decide whether the APA gives federal courts power to vacate administrative rules. The model is rarely this confident in a grant. supremecourt.report/cases/26-491...

Today's Supreme Court order list was the first good opportunity to test my cert-probability model. This chart shows the disposition of the cases distributed for the long conference for which my model generated a prediction. Looks pretty good.

Network graphs of justice agreement

New today on supremecourt.report: Justice level stats by Term supremecourt.report/justices/ot2...

Here's some backtesting of supremecourt.report 's new and updated cert grant probability model. Darker dots are grants, lighter dots are denials. Log scale.

SUPER USEFUL!!!

I don't know if we should abandon SSRN for an alternative. But I do know that it's now essentially trivial to make a replacement, because I made one in an afternoon.

I try to teach my classes such that, even when they are vacationing across Europe in the summer, my students cannot escape thinking about National Pork Producers Council v. Ross.

CourtListener is now available inside Claude as a new MCP Connector. Here's what that means and why it matters. 👇 free.law/2026/05/12/c...

Strikeout percentage leaders, 2026 (min 5 IP)

Once again the world has turned, and baseball is back. To mark the occasion, here is my favorite literary quotation about baseball, from DeLillo's "Mao II"

Hark! An Erie opinion! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Do you want to see the new filings at the Supreme Court each day? I built a tool to do just that. s2.smu.edu/~tbbennett/d...

Cool but nerdy legal tech development: @free.law launched natural-language search in its vast and powerful case law API! Can’t wait to dig in and see what it can do. Full announcement here: free.law/2025/11/05/s...

Here's a little preview of something I've been working on: a dashboard of the new Supreme Court petitions and applications filed each day. s2.smu.edu/~tbbennett/d...

Jeffrey Kessler has filed a petition for certiorari asking the Supreme Court to overrule baseball's "antitrust exemption." The case arises in the somewhat unusual context of Puerto Rico's professional baseball league. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Fascinating takings clause petition granted today by the Supreme Court. No amicus briefs, no relists, counsel without any SCOTUS arguments to date, interesting issue. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Most law schools have substantially increased the median LSAT and UGPA scores of their incoming classes in the last decade. s2.smu.edu/~tbbennett/a...

Listening to the tariff oral argument from last week and my main reaction is that we need to deploy the nation’s strategic podcast-producer reserve to the Federal Circuit

Interesting cert petition filed by Lehotsky Keller and First Liberty Institute asks the Supreme Court to overrule Employment Division v. Smith www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

On the one hand, nice. On the other hand, 🤬.

"What two or three suggestions would you make to improve this course in the future?" 🦅

Oh god! It's happening!!! THE HECK BAR RECKONING IS HAPPENING!!!!!!!!

Today from the Supreme Court: two new cases about trans athletes, a new case about the scope of the Heck v. Humphrey bar, and a case about sovereign immunity and Hyatt v. FTB. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

For reasons I'll make public soon, I have been tracking newly filed petitions for certiorari at the Supreme Court. Yesterday—July 1—the Court began assigning docket numbers beginning "25-" instead of "24-" Look who filed (first one is with the Stanford Clinic). What do they know?