excer The Green Bag’s pts 2015 ALMANAC & READER of useful and entertaining tidbits for lawyers for the year to come and exemplary legal writing from the year just passed (honorees on back cover) featuring our perennially popular ANNUAL REVIEWS The Year in Language & Writing by Bryan A. Garner A Term in the Life of the Supreme Court by Tony Mauro A Year of Lowering the Bar by Kevin Underhill The Year in Law by Gregory F. Jacob and Rakesh Kilaru plus five-and-a-fraction versions of Arthur Conan Doyle’s THE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDER including a new lawyerly edition, with an introduction by Andrew Jay Peck and annotations by Hadar Aviram, Cattleya M. Concepcion, Joshua Cumby, Geoffrey B. Fehling, Clifford S. Goldfarb, Robert M. Jarvis, Guy Marriott, Ira Brad Matetsky, Albert M. Rosenblatt, and Julia Rosenblatt “It is proverbially a mistake for a judge to give his reasons, but I have analysed mine if only to show . . . that I really have taken some trouble in the matter.” A. Conan Doyle,* How I Made My List, STRAND MAGAZINE, June 1927, at 611, 612 __________________________________________________________________________ *Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-‐‑1930) — physician, writer, entrepreneur (see Jon Lellen-‐‑ berg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley, Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters (2007); Daniel Stashower, Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle (1999)), and literary agent (see William S. Baring-‐‑Gould, Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street: A Life of the World’s First Consulting Detective (1962); cf. Mrs. Bradshaw’s Handbook 6 (2014)). GREEN BAG READER Board of Advisers Kate Andrias Linda Greenhouse Donald J. Munro Howard J. Bashman Leslie Griffin Mark P. Painter Danny J. Boggs Morris B. Hoffman Cedric Merlin Powell Adam Bonin Joan S. Howland H. Jefferson Powell Femi Cadmus Anna Ivey Susan Phillips Read Karin Ciano Robert A. James David Roe Avern Cohn Erik M. Jensen James M. Rosenbaum Bridget Crawford Arlene Johnson Joseph Sclafani John P. 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ISSN: 1931-‐‑9711 T C ABLES OF ONTENTS Preface .................................................................................................................... 3 Recommended Reading ..................................................................................... 16 Call for Annotations: “The Reigate Puzzle” ................................................... 20 READER OF EXEMPLARY LEGAL WRITING 2014 ✯ OPINIONS FOR THE COURT ✯ FRANK H. EASTERBROOK National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Scheidler 750 F.3d 696 (7th Cir. 2014) ...................................................... 287 NEIL M. GORSUCH Yellowbear v. Lampert, 741 F.3d 48 (10th Cir. 2014) ............................ 203 RICHARD A. POSNER Baskin v. Bogan, 766 F.3d 648 (7th Cir. 2014) ................................... 356 JOHN G. ROBERTS, JR. Riley v. California, 134 S.Ct. 2473 (2014) ........................................ 423 DIANE P. WOOD Empress Casino Joliet Corp. v. Johnston, 763 F.3d 723 (7th Cir. 2014) ......... 451 ✯ CONCURRENCES, DISSENTS, ETC. ✯ EMILIO M. GARZA Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, 758 F.3d 633 (5th Cir. 2014) ........... 263 RICHARD C. TALLMAN Henry v. Ryan, 766 F.3d 1059 (9th Cir. 2014) ................................... 503 DON R. WILLETT El-Ali v. State, 428 S.W.3d 824 (Tex. 2014) ..................................... 109 ✯ BOOKS ✯ JOAN BISKUPIC Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014) ...................... 173 BRYAN A. GARNER Black’s Law Dictionary (10th edition) (Thomson Reuters 2014) ............... 295 LAURENCE TRIBE AND JOSHUA MATZ Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution (Henry Holt and Co. 2014) ......................................................... 385 GREEN BAG ALMANAC & READER 2015 ✯ LONG ARTICLES ✯ TOBY J. HEYTENS Reassignment, 66 Stanford Law Review 1 (2014) ................................ 513 ANDREW NORRIS A Maelstrom of International Law and Intrigue: The Remarkable Voyage of the S.S. City of Flint 54 American Journal of Legal History 73 (2014) ................................ 311 ✯ NEWS & EDITORIAL ✯ DAVID COLE Can Privacy Be Saved?, New York Review of Books (March 6, 2014) ......... 471 LINDA GREENHOUSE With All Due Deference, New York Times (July 23, 2014) ...................... 245 ADAM LIPTAK The Polarized Court, New York Times (May 10, 2014) .......................... 163 ✯ MISCELLANY ✯ DREW JUSTICE Response to Government’s Motion in Limine Two, State v. Powell (Cir. Ct. Williamson County, Tenn. [2013]) (No. I-CR-086639-B) ........ 347 JON R. MUTH AND PATRICK M. JAICOMO Amicus Curiae Brief of the Students of Father Gabriel Richard High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, People v. Carp 852 N.W.2d 801 (Mich. 2014), 2014 WL 814722 ............................ 481 ILYA SHAPIRO Brief of Amici Curiae Cato Institute and P.J. O’Rourke in Support of Petitioners, Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus 134 S.Ct. 2334 (2014), 2014 WL 880942 ....................................... 229 ALMANAC OF USEFUL & ENTERTAINING TIDBITS LAST YEAR & THIS YEAR The Year 2014 in Language & Writing, featuring The Most Mortifying Solecisms in 2014 Law Reviews, by Bryan A. Garner ............................... 21 The Year in Law, by Gregory F. Jacob & Rakesh Kilaru ..................................... 40 A Term in the Life of the Supreme Court, by Tony Mauro ............................ 79 A Year of Lowering the Bar, by Kevin Underhill .............................................. 88 viii TABLES OF CONTENTS The Year 2015 January ......................................................................................................... 105 February ....................................................................................................... 169 March ........................................................................................................... 199 April .............................................................................................................. 241 May ............................................................................................................... 283 June ............................................................................................................... 307 July ................................................................................................................ 345 August .......................................................................................................... 381 September .................................................................................................... 421 October ......................................................................................................... 449 November .................................................................................................... 479 December. .................................................................................................... 511 USEFUL & ENTERTAINING TIDBITS: SHERLOCKIANA The Sherlockian Atlas (1952), by Julian Wolff ........................................... passim Scenes from a Young Lawyer’s Salvation: The Geography and Scenery of a Sherlock Holmes Mystery, by Ross E. Davies & Cattleya M. Concepcion .................................................. 1 The Adventure of the Norwood Builder: A Lawyerly Annotated Edition, by Arthur Conan Doyle ................................................................................ 116 Introduction: The Dating of “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder,” by Andrew Jay Peck ............................................................................... 119 annotations by Hadar Aviram, Cattleya M. Concepcion, Joshua Cumby, Ross E. Davies, Geoffrey B. Fehling, Clifford S. Goldfarb, Robert M. Jarvis, Guy Marriott, Ira Brad Matetsky, Albert M. Rosenblatt & Julia Rosenblatt .................................................................................. 123-‐‑162 An Embarrassing Mis-‐‑Conanization .............................................................. 168 The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (MS. excerpts 1903), by Arthur Conan Doyle ................................................................................ 192 introduction by Jon Lellenberg ...................................................................... 192 A Postcard from London ................................................................................. 198 The Adventure of the Norwood Builder: First U.S. Printing (1903) by A. Conan Doyle ........................................................................................ 220 Letter to the Green Bag, by Ilya Shapiro ........................................................... 228 The Adventure of the Norwood Builder: First U.K. Printing (1903) by A. Conan Doyle ........................................................................................ 248 ix
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