Sean Bradley

Sean Bradley

Sean@cocklelegalbriefs.com

Website: http://www.cocklelegalbriefs.com

Sean is a graduate of Creighton University School of Law. He has tried cases in state and federal courts, presided as an administrative law judge, and testified in support of major statutory reforms. Through his work as a public interest lawyer--representing domestic violence victims, housing eviction defendants, and public benefits claimants--Sean has developed an acute understanding of the street-level consequences of our nation’s political and legal debates. Sean is an Omaha native, and is raising two terrific children in this great city. After work, Sean enjoys reading irrelevant fiction, toiling over the New York Times crossword, and arguing with his good friends (and he is quite often right, with the crossword at least).

Sean Bradley

Sean is a graduate of Creighton University School of Law. He has tried cases in state and federal courts, presided as an administrative law judge, and testified in support of major statutory reforms. Through his work as a public interest lawyer–representing domestic violence victims, housing eviction defendants, and public benefits claimants–Sean has developed an acute understanding of the street-level consequences of our nation’s political and legal debates.

Sean is an Omaha native, and is raising two terrific children in this great city. After work, Sean enjoys reading irrelevant fiction, toiling over the New York Times crossword, and arguing with his good friends (and he is quite often right, with the crossword at least).

Recent Posts:

Supreme Court Practice Under The 2013 Rules Revisions, Part 2

I have a new post about the coming rule changes at the Cockle Legal Briefs website, where I explore how the new rules may apply to cases already docketed on July 1st. Check it out!

Supreme Court Practice Under The 2013 Rules Revisions

The Court’s revised Rules will go into effect on July 1st. (See the revisions here, and the new complete rule book here.) There are no blockbuster changes, but certain key aspects of Supreme Court practice will change. I will be discussing some of the changes over at Cockle Legal Briefs website. My first post previews the [...]

The Special Requirements for Petition-Stage Amici

Adam Chandler over at SCOTUSblog recently posted this update of his earlier work on the influence of petition-stage amici. Chandler notes that in the last five years, the number of petition-stage amicus filings has increased 35%, and the total number of amicus filers has increased by almost 65%. “In short: more, more, more,” he writes. [...]

Conference Timing Through The End Of The Term

We are getting near the end of the Court’s October 2012 Term. Some petitioners and respondents might be thinking about timing their filings to either have the case considered this term, or have it carried through the summer and into next fall. The last conference for this term is June 20th, and the last paid-petition [...]

Where’s the Record? UPDATE

UPDATE: On Thursday, the Court denied cert, over a rare written dissent from Justice Sotomayor. You can see other coverage in the ABA Journal, Courthouse News Service, and at the AllGov website. On March 13, 2012, we printed and filed the Petition in Fairey v. Tucker, 11-7185. In the Conference of April 16th, the Court requested the record [...]

Beating Distribution: The Curious Math of Late Petition-Stage Filings

What is Distribution? Very simply, distribution is the process of delivering petition-stage briefing documents to the Justices and their clerks for consideration prior to the conference. Shortly after distribution, a randomly assigned clerk in the Cert Pool (and a clerk for Justice Alito, who does not participate in the Cert Pool) will begin reviewing the [...]

Strip Search This Post, Please!

This morning the US Supreme Court heard arguments in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders. While it sounds like a witchcraft trial, this is actually a case that asks whether or not the 4th Amendment restricts a jailor’s ability to strip search prisoners without any particular suspicion that the prisoner might smuggle contraband into the [...]

The Summer of 2012

With the news that the Solicitor General has joined with Affordable Care Act opponents to request a US Supreme Court ruling on the individual mandate, Randy Barnett over at The Volokh Conspiracy is predicting a decision in mid-June of next year. It got me thinking about my schedule for that summer… March 12th, a solemn [...]

The Other Big Healthcare Case

The other big healthcare case this term is actually three cases. In Douglas v. Independent Living Center of Southern California, Douglas v. California Pharmacists Association, and Douglas v. Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, the State of California has asked the Court to review 9th Circuit rulings that struck down the state’s effort to reduce Medicaid reimbursement [...]

The Confrontation Clause Redux

The US Supreme Court is currently taking merits briefs in Williams v. Illinois, the most recent in a series of modern high court cases seeking to re-establish the vitality of the Confrontation Clause. Prior to 2004, a court’s hearsay-exception analysis turned on the question of trustworthiness, asking if the circumstances of the proffered out-of-court statement [...]

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Sean Bradley
Raise your hand if you think cops, prosecutors and reporters will apply this law much more stringently to mothers than to fathers.