Unpublished Opinions

Unpublished Opinions


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Unpublished Opinions 20 | And Fascism
November 19, 2025

Your IJ roundtable is back with hot takes and tepid reflection. John Wrench, joined by Sam Gedge and Josh Windham, share tips on how to do law, do life, and do European-on-European colonialism. Subjec

Unpublished Opinions 19 | The Highest Court in the Land
October 27, 2025

With the new Supreme Court term underway, John Wrench welcomes Anya Bidwell and Anthony Sanders for a SCOTUS-themed rompincluding which justice is the ideal dinner guest and the past case youd most

Unpublished Opinions 18 | Picking Favorites
September 30, 2025

Constitution Day might have been September 17, but Diana, Patrick, and John are still celebrating. From the insight that rights come beforenot fromthe government, to the evergreen challenge of const

Unpublished Opinions 17 | Stand By
July 31, 2025

Lots of hot takes on the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court, and even as varied a subject as the Supreme Court. With sub-categories: whether the words privileges or immunities in Section 1983 mean any

Unpublished Opinions 16 | Rings of a Hoary Oak Tree
July 02, 2025

A new edition of everyones favorite legal grimoire has dropped, and John Wrench convenes Sam Gedge and Diana Simpson to ask the hard questions: Is the Bluebook a sacred scroll, or an eldritch horror

Unpublished Opinions 15 | The Oz Machine
May 28, 2025

Done with oral argument at SCOTUS in Martin v. United States, Patrick Jaicomo and Anya Bidwell rejoin the rotation to yell at clouds and, along with this months host, give their unpublished opinions

Unpublished Opinions 14 | On the Garamond Question
April 29, 2025

Spring hath finally shaken off the winter of Arlingtons discontent, and host John Wrench gathers IJ barristers Sam Gedge and Josh Windham for a scene that proves that all the laws a stage. The trio

Unpublished Opinions 13 | You’re Yucking My Yum
March 20, 2025

A flurry of ideas about the state of the law, the universe, and, well, everything. Including, at least, the impeachment of judges, how lawyers educate each other through media, corpus linguistics and

Unpublished Opinions 12 | Raise You a Texas
February 17, 2025

John Wrench of IJ returns as your host for some courthouse conversations with his colleagues Diana Simpson and Josh Windham. They spill out their opinions on what can be weird about state court legal

Unpublished Opinions 11 | Bush v. Gore Energy
January 19, 2025

In our first episode of 2025 we livecast a Supreme Court opinion whose release happened to cross into our pre-scheduled recording slotthe ruling in the TikTok case. Our comments relevance and time