Amy Howe

Sep 27 2017

Court releases October hearing list

Just a few days before taking the bench to hear the first oral arguments of the October Term 2017, the Supreme Court today released the hearing list for the October sitting. Monday’s removal of the challenges to President Donald Trump’s March 6 executive order freezing travel to the United States by nationals of six Muslim-majority countries means that the justices will hear nine hours of oral arguments over five days; Monday, October 9 is a federal holiday.

As is so often the case these days, the hearing list contains a critical mass of veteran Supreme Court litigators: Paul Clement (who argues twice, on the first and last days of the sitting) and Erin Murphy of Kirkland & Ellis; Dan Ortiz of the University of Virginia’s Supreme Court clinic; Orrick’s Joshua Rosenkranz; Wisconsin solicitor general Misha Tseytlin; Paul Smith of the Campaign Legal Center; Timothy Bishop of Mayer Brown; Ohio solicitor general Eric Murphy; and Jeffrey Fisher, co-director of Stanford’s Supreme Court clinic. Three alumni from the Stanford clinic will also argue in October, although not against Fisher: Eric Feigin and Rachel Kovner of the U.S. solicitor general’s office, and Jones Day’s Nathaniel Garrett.

Unfortunately, as is also often the case, women are relatively few and far between on the hearing list: Jenner & Block’s Jessica Ring Amunson joins Erin Murphy and Rachel Kovner for a total of only three of the 24 argument slots in October. Believe it or not, this is a big improvement over the October 2015 argument calendar, in which Kovner was the only woman to argue.

Amy L Howe
Until September 2016, Amy served as the editor and reporter for SCOTUSblog, a blog devoted to coverage of the Supreme Court of the United States; she continues to serve as an independent contractor and reporter for SCOTUSblog. Before turning to full-time blogging, she served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there. From 2004 until 2011, she co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School; from 2005 until 2013, she co-taught a similar class at Harvard Law School. She has also served as an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law and Vanderbilt Law School. Amy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a master’s degree in Arab Studies and a law degree from Georgetown University.
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