Tommy Bennett

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...

As I once wrote

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

Somewhat ironically, the petition cites confusion over the holding in Tandon as a reason to grant the petition. “Please clean up this unreasoned mess you made!”

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, 🤬.

Link to paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

RIP to Hulk Hogan, whom I learned a good bit about for “Breaking Kayfabe.” Here’s my favorite bit

Stop carrying water for the law courts.

A good bit of commentary on the exercise of equitable power has the flavor of, “ugh, isn’t it lawless how this whole area lacks hard rules and focuses on difficult judgments of fairness?”

SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thanks to the Legal Theory Blog for "highly recommend[ing]" my latest article, "Breaking Kayfabe"! lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/...

I think it depends what happens in the cases! But probably, at least sometimes, yes.

I have a paper about some related questions: bsky.app/profile/tomm...

You rang? bsky.app/profile/tomm...

Thanks to all the sickos out there--both constitutional lawyers and wrestling fans--who love a good show, especially those who help me make this paper better.

Abstract and SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Hi, friends. I'd like to share a new-ish paper that I'm delighted to have in print. It's called "Breaking Kayfabe," and it's about what professional wrestling can teach us about Supreme Court opinions. I'd be grateful if you gave it some time!

open and notorious

"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?

This has always struck be as odd in light of Supreme Court Rule 3